Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens 658
CWmike writes "Tuesday's security updates from Microsoft have crippled Windows XP PCs with the notorious Blue Screen of Death, users have reported on the company's support forum. Complaints began early yesterday, and gained momentum throughout the day. 'I updated 11 Windows XP updates today and restarted my PC like it asked me to,' said a user identified as 'tansenroy' who kicked off a growing support thread: 'From then on, Windows cannot restart again! It is stopping at the blue screen with the following message: 'A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.' Others joined in with similar reports. Several users posted solutions, but the one laid out by 'maxyimus' was marked by a Microsoft support engineer as the way out of the perpetual blue screens."
ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
first po
Stop OxOOOOOOFC (OxB5FD7D64, Ox76F3E963, OxB5FD7CDC, OxOOOOOOO1)
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
Did you see the solution? (Score:5, Funny)
They put the update in, you take the update out!
They put the update in, shake your laptop all about!
"You do the hokey pokey and you uninstall the patch! That's what it's all about!"
"ooooh... the windows bluescreen."
"ooooh... the windows bluescreen."
"ooooh... the windows bluescreen."
"That's what it's all about!"
Re:Did you see the solution? (Score:1, Funny)
Liars! (Score:5, Funny)
You know how I know they are lying? They are posting complaints online. We designed this patch -specifically- to stop online complaints about updates. They clearly haven't actually updated.
-Bill Gates
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Please don't joke about this. I have been affected, and at the worst possible time, too. I have to submit my PhD dissertation tomorrow, and I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do now.
I can't boot up, and I have one of those HP computers that has everything built into the screen, so I can't even take the hard drive out.
I CAN'T GET MY FUCKING PHD DISSERTATION. I AM SO FUCKED.
What? (Score:5, Funny)
'I updated 11 Windows XP updates today...
You updated your updates? You're doing it wrong.
Just close your eyes and chant (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Look, if he was bluescreening he wouldn't bother to type "0x0000FFFF" He'd just say it.
"Oooooooo FFFFFFFF..."
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
AC didn't say what his or her major was. I'd expect different computer competencies from a Computer Science major and a French Literature major. Or, given that AC is on Slashdot, perhaps an Anthropology major.
Re:Just close your eyes and chant (Score:5, Funny)
Windows costs less, is more secure, and superior to opensource OS's.
And hope your boss hears you before your fired.
Before my fired what?
Yay, no problems here! (Score:2, Funny)
I updated yesterday and haven't had any problems. I feel like I won the lottery!
Re:Remove automatic updates from your slipstream (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
You're pretty dumb for someone getting a PhD
I'm not sure if I should laugh at how wrong this is, or cry because of how wrong this is.
Obviously (Score:2, Funny)
Windows cannot start again. So? (Score:5, Funny)
You say this like it's a *bad* thing...
Re:Just close your eyes and chant (Score:5, Funny)
Before my fired what?
Don't correct me, your fired.
Regards
you're Boss
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Well that and the fact that the fix is a bit easier that formatting and reinstalling. From TFA:
I had the same problem. Since I didn't have time to identify which one of today's updates caused the problem, I removed them all and now my computer is back to normal.
Follow these steps:
1. Boot from your Windows XP CD or DVD and start the recovery console (see this Microsoft article for help with this step)
Once you are in the Repair Screen..
2. Type this command: CHDIR $NtUninstallKB978262$\spuninst
3. Type this command: BATCH spuninst.txt
4. Type this command: systemroot
5. Repeat steps 2 - 4 for each of the following updates provided by FindMeFollowMe:
* KB978262
* KB971468
* KB978037
* KB975713
* KB978251
* KB978706
* KB977165
* KB975560
* KB977914
6. When complete, type this command: exit
Your computer should restart and everything should be back to normal.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just close your eyes and chant (Score:4, Funny)
Now why are these gentlemen escorting me out of the building?
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:microsoft screws users again. Why is this news? (Score:3, Funny)
Also, while command line may be faster than GUI, GUI is easier and here's why: if I want to do some task, I can look at the toolbars and in the menus to fins an item that looks like what I need to do (for example, if I want to find a file, I'll look for a button or menu item named "Search", "Find" or something like that. I will recognize it when I see it), but on a command line, I basically need to remember the exact command for doing what I want to do, for example, I would need to remember the whole "dir *foo*.ext /s | more" command if I want to find the file, it won't work if I type ls instead of dir or if I type search instead of find or I forget to write the /s. For less used commands this gets difficult.
Linux is great, but only when it works right after install and you do not need to install other programs. Otherwise it gets very difficult very fast.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Windows is not a new product. If you don't know that it can't be counted on to work like a normal computer, that doesn't just mean you're not technical. It means you have been living under a rock for 20 years.
Strange, under my rock, Windows XP/2003 work well, I rarely have to restart my computers and when I do it is usually because of a hardware problem, long power outage (long enough to discharge UPS batteries) or because I am installing some software that needs a reboot.
C'mon, don't be like that. You're ruining the moment.
Be a nice guy and let we Linux/BSD/etc users laugh at the cost of your OS, okay?
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Of course not. Same folder, different name.
It's not a crash, it's a feature (Score:1, Funny)
That blue screen you're seeing, they call it "Windows Azure."
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Windows is cheap if your time is worth nothing!
Depending on your install disc, amount of files & apps to install, this could take up to a whole day!
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:1, Funny)
(1) go to www.ubuntu.com (2) download ISO and burn to CD (3) boot the PC to Unbuntu CD (4) navigate to your Windows user folder and find your f------ dissertation (5) email it to yourself (if Ubuntu connects to your network) OR copy to USB drive
Dissertation Problem solved.
Remind me, how does he get Ubuntu without a working PC? Not everyone has friends y'know.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
My grandma is going to do this? Clearly, Windows is not ready for the desktop.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One copy... on a floppy! (Score:5, Funny)
Ph.D. on a floppy? Should we get off your lawn?
Re:One copy... on a floppy! (Score:4, Funny)
I guess she should have copied that floppy. That's what you get for listening to M.E. Hart.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I've been doing that with "XCOPY" on my dos 6.21 box.
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:3, Funny)
No he wouldn't. Douglas was a Mac fan.
-Jar
Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Current System Uptime: 28 day(s), 3 hour(s), 27 minute(s), 48 second(s)
Mean Time Between Reboots: 29.25 days
Looks like it's going down very soon...
Re:Lucky Me (Score:1, Funny)
Yes. Because a quadriplegic who used exclusively XP because only it runs the eye-tracking software he uses to interact with the world - as opposed to a troll - would really have the name "Penguinshit". That's some quality moderation, guys.