My story gets even worse. I tried putting SP3 on one of the XP machines last
night. When I rebooted this morning, my machine would get to the Windows
logo, then briefly flash a blue screen error (WAY too fast to be able to see
what it said) and spontaneously reboot. "Last know good configuration"
didn't help, so I booted into Safe Mode and am currently uninstalling SP3.
I'm going to be extremely unhappy if I have to reload this machine again
since I just reloaded it a few weeks ago (and spent the usual entire day
doing do) and it's been running like a champ ever since. Now it's apparently
hosed, thanks to Microsoft and their stupid updates.
I now have automatic updates disabled on ALL my computers and will not be
trusting Microsoft's advice on what to install on my machine again.
"Greg" wrote:
> Same here. Both our computers (one a laptop one desktop) are frozen and only
> working without crashing in safe mode. I had mine set to update
> automatically. Have tried going back restore points but that resets the
> settings as well, so even though I change the settings not to install
> updates automatically, it reverts when I go back to the restore point before
> the updates that caused this problem, so then when I boot in normal mode it
> immediately updates again. Catch 22. How do we get our computers to work
> again? And you can't run the Windows Update program in safe mode. How stupid
> is that?
>
> MORONIC MICROSOFT PRODUCTS! ARRRGGGGGGGGGGH!
>
>
> "Dave H." <> wrote in message
> news:276344EB-74AB-4BB7-ACDE-...
> > Same here. I have six PCs on a LAN at home, and the two running Vista
> > weren't accessible using LogMeIn from work today. (they'd been fine
> > earlier
> > before I left for work) The other four - XP and Server 2003 - were fine,
> > although they couldn't access the two Vista machines across the local
> > network
> > either.
> >
> > When I got home to check it out, it was just like you said - they locked
> > up
> > almost as soon as I touched the mouse and had to be hard-booted. Couldn't
> > see anything in Event Viewer that gave me any clues. I'm thinking some
> > kind
> > of update gone awry.
> >
> >
> > "Electron" wrote:
> >
> >> So I have two computers using Vista SP1 and both get turned off every
> >> night.
> >> This morning started up the first pc and everything went fine during boot
> >> and
> >> log-in. Then when I tried to start an application the p.c froze with the
> >> round "hour-glass" timer showing. Didin't think much of it. I re-booted
> >> and
> >> everything was fine. Started up the 2nd p.c. a while later and exactly
> >> the
> >> same problem, only this time I went for the "start" menu first and not an
> >> application. Now I think this is quite odd. The same problem on different
> >> p.c.'s on the same day using the same operating system. Re-booted the 2nd
> >> p.c. and again everything is okay. Anyone else have the same problem
> >> today?
>
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