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Thread ID: 136928 2014-05-01 21:01:00 MS release patch for IE including XP Speedy Gonzales (78) PC World Chat
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1373976 2014-05-02 00:15:00 Another good reason for not doing updates!

Secretly it's Microsoft forcing people to get with the times :devil
pcuser42 (130)
1373977 2014-05-02 02:33:00 Secretly it's Microsoft forcing people to get with the times :devil

A bit dumb from M$ who frequently lack awareness as to what time it is.
(Their updates are like nappy changes for their target market, applied for much the same reason, although nappy changes are nowhere near as likely to replace or supplement the old stuff with new.) ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1373978 2014-05-03 12:51:00 I do not have the foggiest idea of what you guys are talking about. But I installed a MS update (XP) a couple of hours ago and since then my pc wouldn't complete loading. Almost there, tried to kill tasks, but yeah...nah. Just continued to hang. Useless.

All hail Safe Mode and System Restore.
Winston001 (3612)
1373979 2014-05-04 05:56:00 No new posts for 17 hours? Has M$ updated the servers? R2x1 (4628)
1373980 2014-05-04 06:19:00 Microsoft KGB...... Update did it. ;) B.M. (505)
1373981 2014-05-04 06:32:00 (Their updates are like nappy changes for their target market, applied for much the same reason, although nappy changes are nowhere near as likely to replace or supplement the old stuff with new.) ;)

Word on the IT street is that the M$ Corporate colour scheme is about to be changed to 40 Shades of Karitane Yellow ...
WalOne (4202)
1373982 2014-05-04 08:18:00 Sounds right; but if their users are a bit green, we'll have green and yellow.
Good grief, flocking Australians. It must be true!
R2x1 (4628)
1373983 2014-05-10 10:36:00 Damned if I know what to do. Running XP.

I have disabled automatic updates. Nevertheless every time I shut down, the pc when restarted refuses to complete loading. Almost there but not quite. The icons for Google, Malwarebytes, Firefox and some others don't load.

Task Manager shows very low CPU activity and 750mg of RAM used but refuses to let me stop processes.

The only way I can get this machine running is Safe Mode and System Restore back to a week ago. I've searched for this problem but all I can find is that Windows 7 has serious update problems and MS are up to Version 18 to try and resolve it.

Is there a MS tool to fix?
Winston001 (3612)
1373984 2014-05-10 11:52:00 Once you run system restore its runs OK ? If so what else is being updated (if anything), are there any messages saying installing ?????? wainuitech (129)
1373985 2014-05-10 12:58:00 Yes, the MS K series. One allegedly is for the Explorer Hole but I seldom use explorer. No problem downloading it but there is another K series patch as well and it all goes bad. Winston001 (3612)
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