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Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens

Posted by timothy on from the could-be-worse-could-be-raining dept.

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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  1. ha ha suckers!!! by gandhi_2 · · 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.

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    THL phish sticks
    1. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    2. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

      Look, if he was bluescreening he wouldn't bother to type "0x0000FFFF" He'd just say it.

      "Oooooooo FFFFFFFF..."

    3. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by david_thornley · · Score: 4, 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.

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      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    4. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, 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.

    5. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by DJRumpy · · 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.

    6. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by element-o.p. · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure there's a joke in there regarding LaTeX and safe computing somewhere...

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      MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
    7. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by BabyDuckHat · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's almost as user friendly as Linux right there.

    8. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by westyx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course not. Same folder, different name.

    9. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      My grandma is going to do this? Clearly, Windows is not ready for the desktop.

    10. Re:ha ha suckers!!! by paganizer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've been doing that with "XCOPY" on my dos 6.21 box.

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      Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
  2. Did you see the solution? by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

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    Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
  3. Liars! by interkin3tic · · 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

  4. What? by dangitman · · Score: 5, Funny

    'I updated 11 Windows XP updates today...

    You updated your updates? You're doing it wrong.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
    1. Re:What? by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 4, Funny

      To be fair, his computer had just been pimped by Xzibit...

      --
      Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
  5. Just close your eyes and chant by harris+s+newman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows costs less, is more secure, and superior to opensource OS's. And hope your boss hears you before your fired.

    1. Re:Just close your eyes and chant by Tetsujin · · 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?

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      Bow-ties are cool.
    2. Re:Just close your eyes and chant by ZarathustraDK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Before my fired what?

      Don't correct me, your fired.

      Regards
      you're Boss

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      If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
  6. Windows cannot start again. So? by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 4, Funny

    You say this like it's a *bad* thing...

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  7. Re:One copy... on a floppy! by steelfood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ph.D. on a floppy? Should we get off your lawn?

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    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."