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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Remove automatic updates from your slipstream

[Antiocheian]

Here is a list of Microsoft stuff to remove from your XP slipstream:

Automatic Updates (for reasons related to the article)
Windows media player (including 6.4) because it downloads codecs at will.
Accessibility Options (unless you need them)
ClipBook Viewer (useless)
Games
Internet Games
NT Backup (use a modern backup)
Paint
Pinball
Screensavers
WordPad (use openoffice for that)
ActiveX for streaming video
AOL ART Image Format Support
Images and Backgrounds
Intel Indeo codecs
Media Center
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Client for Netware Networks
Communication tools
Comtrol Test Terminal Program
FrontPage Extensions
H323 MSP
Internet Connection Wizard
IP Conferencing
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Network Setup Wizard
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol
Peer-to-Peer
Share Creation Wizard
Synchronization Manager
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)
Windows Messenger .NET Framework
Blaster/Nachi removal tool (get Avira!)
Color Schemes
Desktop Cleanup Wizard (just have clean desktop)
Disk Cleanup (CCleaner instead)
Document Templates
DR Watson
Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) (Ancient)
File and Settings Wizard (Useless)
Help and Support (Utterly useless)
IExpress Wizard
Manual Install and Upgrade (Just keep good system backups)
MS Agent
MS XML 2.0
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Search Assistant (the dog)
Service Pack Messages
Shell Media Handler
Symbolic Debugger (NTSD)
Tour
Web View
Zip Folders (rar instead)
Error Reporting
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service (imgburn for these old devices)
System Restore Service
Hardware shell detection (this is one of the pieces that allow USB viruses to run in the first place)

Re:ha ha suckers!!!

[cayenne8]

"5) Copy ALL important files to the USB drive (probably safest to copy your entire user directory, if your USB drive is big enough."

You lost me here.....windows has the equivalent of /home directories??

I don't use windows that much, but I've not seen that on any of the few windows boxes I've used before...I do tend to set up folders for things on the directory tree for different things (downloads, recipes, projects with subfolders under them for documents, designs...etc..). I could find all my stuff as I do try to organize it...but the /home paradigm on windows I've not seen...