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Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens
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."
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A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
THL phish sticks
All I keep hearing in my head is:
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!"
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
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
'I updated 11 Windows XP updates today...
You updated your updates? You're doing it wrong.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Windows costs less, is more secure, and superior to opensource OS's. And hope your boss hears you before your fired.
I updated yesterday and haven't had any problems. I feel like I won the lottery!
Keep Pinball. I love that old game. Very well done, and might be the best Win software ever.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
This is how they solve the problem of backwards compatibility and get everyone onto Windows.Next or Win8 or whatever. Break all OSes prior to Win7 with "patches" thereby forcing everyone to PAY UP SUCKAS....
You say this like it's a *bad* thing...
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
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.
That blue screen you're seeing, they call it "Windows Azure."
Ph.D. on a floppy? Should we get off your lawn?
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
I guess she should have copied that floppy. That's what you get for listening to M.E. Hart.
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.