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The second Tuesday of every month is update day for those whose PCs have windows operating systems. My laptop is one, it has vista. It downloaded the updates yesterday and before I went to bed, I shut the computer off so to install them. Guess what, my laptop won't boot this morning.
I've read about MS updates recently causing computers to crash. Now it looks like fallen victim to the same shit. What kind of @#%$! company designs fixes that actually break their customer's products?
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The 'company's proper name is
The Company's proper name is Microshaft. I returned from Montreal on the 2nd of Dec. to be greeted with a "blue screen of death" on my confuser, that had been off for 15 days. Totally locked up.
CaroL
CaroL
Good Grief!
I haven't turned on either of my MS machines in over a month. Now I'm afraid to. LOL.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Try booting in 'last known
Try booting in 'last known good configuration'. If that works, or safe mode works, use system restore to go back to last week.
I _never_ set computers to do automatic downloads and installs. I generally wait until at least a week after the 'tuesday' to install anything on a customer machine.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I dunno
I have three MS machines, all running XP SP3, and none has missed a lick. I tried a Vista machine a couple of years ago and dumped it; and the only Windows 7 I have is on my cell. I don't have to have the next great thing, or own the "name" cult machine, they just have to work; so XP does just fine.
. . . .
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
No problems
My computer updated just fine. It could be coincidence that your computer wouldn't boot and not Microsoft's fault at all.
Mr. Ram
Not coincidence.
Different hardware, different programs on the disk.
...actually, as it's Microsoft, you probably used the wrong chicken.
Penny
My PC hasn't had any
My PC hasn't had any problems, but it runs XP. My laptop has Vista and crashed last week. Restore fixed it (much to my surprise, I haven't had much luck with System Restore), but I haven't installed any updates in months because they keep crashing my computer. Fortunately I have it set to ask me before installing, so I can just not install. Still annoying to always have the little message that says updates are ready to install and not be able to get rid of it though. ;(
I don't think I'll be upgrading? my OS on my PC any time soon.
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
Microsoft is perhaps unique among software companies...
...in that it was founded upon deliberate obfuscation and fraud.
Their first "product" was a BASIC language interpreter for the Altair microcomputer, which they hadn't bothered to create one tiny bit of before trying to sell it to MITS, the creators of the Altair.
On the basis of the lie, they managed to con their way into an interview with the creators of the machine, but had "scheduling difficulties, during which time they managed to create the product they'd sold, thus founding the new industry of electronic smoke and mirrors.
Through various means mentioned in the above article, Microsoft achieved dominance in the operating systems for personal computers market, thereby ensuring that most of the world's personal and small office computers run some variation of MS software, creating a fragile monoculture susceptible to pathogens and diseases.
Like any monocrop, MS requires the constant application of anti-disease and anti-pest "poisons," but is regularly defeated, because there are many more pests than there are Microsofts, and pests evolve.
In one of those odd twists of fate, the one and only truly original work published by Mr Gates (in collaboration with his then instructor) was an implementation of the "pancake sort," the utility of which in the context of evolution is shown here:
(click on DNA Computing in vivo Using The Hin/hix System)
This perfectly explains why the hackers will always win against Microsoft defences.
Because of the monoculture nature of personal computing these days, MS operating systems are cheek and jowl with each other, so any infection is like a sneeze in a crowded elevator. Linux, Mac OS-X, and second tier operating systems are relative hermits, so if one system succumbs to an infection or infestation, it takes considerable time for the problem to spread, allowing developers to provide security updates in time to prevent most users from ever seeing a problem.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
M$ and Security...
Whenever I hear someone talking about Microsoft and Security in the same paragraph, I giggle a little as I think back to "Microsoft Bob"... That little multi-tasking environment for DOS required users to log in prior to using the system. And, it was oh, so very helpful. It was soooo helpful that if you accidentally keyed your password in wrong three times, it prompted you to change your password.
A lady (now named Mrs. Gates) was the product manager of "Bob"...
Coincidence?
Anne
I refuse to use Vista
have not loaded 7, as half my equipment will not work with 7. And I only have to pay 20.00 for the disc as a benefit. I will stay with XP until Microsl$t stops supporting it, and then stay with it for a while more. Maybe by then they will have something that works. (Yeah right) I get the updates automatically, but I also have to give permission to do the installs, and I go to the site to see what they are, as if they really tell you anything anyway.The only reason I ever stopped using Win 2000, was due to my provider refused to allow people on line unless they had XP or higher. When they issued Office 2007, it was "new" and would not work with any older edition. So they had to issue a separate program to allow them to interface. Now they have Office 2010, and guess what? It also is "new" and will not work with any other predicessor. I downloaded it free, but refuse to install it.