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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."
I thought the solution was, 1:boot to cmd prompt 2: type format c: 3: press "y" when prompted 4: insert ubuntu live CD 5: follow on screen prompts for installation 6:... 7: Profit!
'I updated 11 Windows XP updates today and restarted my PC like it asked me to
What sort of loon patches multiple machines without first testing the patch?
XP has about 70% or so of the client market. How many millions or tens of millions of patches have been installed successfully?
I'm feeling like a broken record here. I don't think you could consciously code up an OS with more holes than Windows has. Why on earth is it so damned vulnerable that any tiny code change can topple it over? Tell me again why people still use Microsoft products?
Here is a list of Microsoft stuff to remove from your XP slipstream:
(snip enormous list of junk)
If you rip out all of that, though, you're left with essentially the same interface and options as a normal install of Linux or Mint. Ie - you have to find and download everything piece by piece and install it one at a time, which is no different at all than finding stuff from a distro server and doing it that way.
Well, except that it's still a less stable OS with the same learning curve if you are a new user who's never used Windows before(yes, some do exist...)
Not trolling here. Just, to make Windows stable as Linux, well, you have to strip it down almost to Linux levels anyways, so why bother with the headache?
Compared to Nuke it and take the 10 minutes to put Linux on it and not have this trouble again........
Corrected again:
Install a rolling Linux distro and live problem free.