Windows XP freezes at Logon after 11/03/2008 Update

Hi, guys!
A couplse of XP SP3 computers got frozen today at the Logon screen. They
have been working overnight with the users signed out/locked. When my
colleagues turned theit monitors, the computers would freeze and not take any
input.
Turned out it was because they have auto-updated and required restart.
Am I the only one thinking that MS gets reluctant into supporting XP? A
month or two back they shipped a Tablet PC HID Device driver that disabled
all PS2 mice on every single XP machine.

If Microsoft was "reluctant into supporting XP" you'd hear a lot of complaints.

You can't blame Microsoft for a flakely tablet driver provided by some other
company.

I tend to ignore drivers that come with hardware and get the latest [and
hopefully greatest] drivers off the company's web site.

"Kamen" wrote:

> Hi, guys!
> A couplse of XP SP3 computers got frozen today at the Logon screen. They
> have been working overnight with the users signed out/locked. When my
> colleagues turned theit monitors, the computers would freeze and not take any
> input.
> Turned out it was because they have auto-updated and required restart.
> Am I the only one thinking that MS gets reluctant into supporting XP? A
> month or two back they shipped a Tablet PC HID Device driver that disabled
> all PS2 mice on every single XP machine.

Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
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Kamen wrote:
> A couplse of XP SP3 computers got frozen today at the Logon screen. They
> have been working overnight with the users signed out/locked. When my
> colleagues turned theit monitors, the computers would freeze and not take
> any input.
> Turned out it was because they have auto-updated and required restart.
> Am I the only one thinking that MS gets reluctant into supporting XP? A
> month or two back they shipped a Tablet PC HID Device driver that disabled
> all PS2 mice on every single XP machine.