July Update issues

Seems that there are 'issues' with the july patches. 2 machines done so far,
problems with both. Machine 1 is XP home, machine 2 is XP Pro.

The issue seems to be that for some reason, a restart is not enough. One
machine froze when restarting, the other would not correctly reload the (Zone
Labs) Firewall.

In both cases, a power down followed by a cold boot seems to have got things
working again. My guess is that there was something left in memory that
confused things to the extent of screwing a program after the restart.

There are times when I wonder about the validity of alllowing any machine to
update from the web, in that all I seem to get recently is hassle followed by
hassle, and very little of it is actually of my making.

So, you have been warned, for whatever reason, a restart after the July
Updates may not be enough, a cold boot may be required to get the machine to
work again.

That's considerably less than impressive!
--
Steve