Comments on: Windows Update Caused Problems for me June 13, 2007

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:44:52 +0000

So even an auto restore back to a further date won’t do it for you? Boy, in that case, I don’t know what to tell you. Format and reinstall, or take the opportunity to buy a new hard drive? That’s what I ended up doing - problem solved in about2 hours…

Perhaps a Windows Vista upgrade will painlessly solve all your problems?

(* This IS a joke - please do not upgrade to Vista, thinking it will solve anything)

By: neil

neil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:13:11 +0000

Hello again I’ve tried doing it your way 3 times now and still the same got anyother ideas or should I get a relly BIG HAMMER now???? Windows why why why…. its taking so much time and say I’ll leaveit at that for now ah…Reaching for the HAMMER as im doing this…

By: neil

neil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:33:06 +0000

Hello I just got hit by the auto update and it took out my internet explorer and had big time trouble trying to fix it I’m trying to restore again and lets hope it dont do it again…Where do these things come from and why do they let it cause so much trouble??? Make me want to go to MAC…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:33:44 +0000

Yeah, I have still not done my updates -
Wil’s URL was bad to the Winsock XP fix -

By: Dave Barlow

Dave Barlow — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:49:13 +0000

Returning from vacation, I updated my xp home. Firts of all it asked me to install some software so I could access the MS site ( I’ve doen this before), then I downloaded the security updates, malicious software removal. Rebooted Pc and media palyer won’t play avi or dvd files, WinDVD won’t play DVD’s. Did a system restore to two weeks earlier and everything ok again.
So it will only work if I don’t update!!
Thanks Microsoft.

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:22:42 +0000

thank you Wil - and I intend to try your solution today and will post again if it’s successful or not.

By: Dale Wade

Dale Wade — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:34:19 +0000

Vista isn’t immune. My Vista rig was up during the forced “push” early Wednesday morning (June 13th 2007) and when I next tried reading email (Saturday) I found that I couldn’t connect to charter. I hadn’t changed anything, figured an upgrade had caused the problem and noticed that the last email that came in was just prior to the upgrade. I found that there is an interaction with Norton as uninstalling Norton allows Outlook to work. Reinstalling reverts to the same problems. Alternately, uninstalling the Outlook 2007 patch (and leaving Norton) allows email to work.

As an additional headache, I went to pay some bills and found that I couldn’t access the secure site my bank’s homepage redirects me to on login.

Arrggggh! Don’t they test this stuff?!

I too lost about two hours yesterday and then again two today. I’ve now backed out of all the June 13th upgrades and have turned off autoupdate. Thanks Microsoft. Hmph.

By: Nick S

Nick S — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:26:10 +0000

OK same here except that now none of my clients running XP can use any FTP programs at all!

The only systems unaffected are Vista boxes… go figure. We have vista and XP boxes on the same network and the Vista boxes can access FTP just fine the XP boxes get a time out and never show the directory ls.

All the systems that we access are using PORT not PASV as they are locked down to avoid hackers.

If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

By: Wil

Wil — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:12 +0000

I know your headache. I’ve found a fix for it but you need to download this first, then run the updates, then run the app.

The WinsockXpFix.exe program can be downloaded directly from the author, here:

http://www.iup.edu/house/resnet/WinsockXPFix.exe

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:02:12 +0000

Ugh - See how frazzled I was? I couldn’t even tell what month it was!
(title now edited - thanks)