READ THIS CAREFULLY. THE PROBLEM ISN'T WITH SP1. THE PROBLEM IS WITH A BUNCH OF UPDATES RELEASED BY MICROSOFT IN ADVANCE OF THE RELEASE OF SP1. ONE OF THESE UPDATES TOTALLY F**KS YOUR COMPUTER.
Now, more calmly. The updates downloaded and installed onto my puter on Saturday via Windows auto updates. They need a reboot to configure and install, so you don't see the effects until your next restart. Sunday morning and I had a computer that was completely stuck in a loop for 5 hours before I finally pulled the plug.
Microsopt have now acknowledged that one of these updates is the problem. You are left with a system which is as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
Solution 1. Boot into safe mode if you can (I could).
2. Find a system restore point - I had to roll back to 6th Feb
3. SWITCH OF AUTO UPDATES OR YOU'LL BE BACK WHERE YOU STARTED
4. Residual effect is that keyboard driver irretrievably trashed, have no spacebar, return or backspace, so using another keyboard with a different driver.
Suffice to say that the site has had 28,000 hits so far.
Microsoft have issued a single statement confirming the problem and that are investigation.
JUST TO REPEAT FOR THE HARD OF THINKING, THIS IS NOT SP1, THIS WAS UDATES REQUIRED IF YOU ARE GOING TO INSTALL SP1 WHEN IT IS FINALLY RELEASED. THESE UPDATES WERE RELEASED BY MICROSOFT AND AUTOMATICALLY INSTALLED ON YOUR PUTER IF YOU HAD AUTO UPDATES ENABLED. THERE IS NO PIRATING INVOLVED. THERE ARE NO DODGY SITES INVOLVED. MICROSOFT HAVE RELEASED A CRITICAL UPDATE WHICH TRASHES YOUR PUTER.
Now I can only assume that there have been very few posts since Friday because all of you lot who stated that problems were due to people trying to pirate SP1 are now unable to get your puters to boot, let alone get on-line because tyou pooh-poohed the whole thing. OK, the title of thhe article is misleading, but if you'd bothered to read any of the posts from affected users, you would have seen that this was a huge problem and bog all do do with pirating.
To rub salt into the wound, this problem was discovered when SP1 RC was released to beta testers. The testers had to install the 6 prerequisite updates before they could install SP1. They hit the same wall. Yet Microsoft have done nothing about this problem and have released it as an automatic update. You really couldn't make this up.
I'm now faced with a 150Gb backup and a clean re-install of Vista, except that the microsoft update has trashed so much of my system that I can't boot from the recovery partition or even the recovery DVD.
2 hrs on the phone to Dell and another 2 to Microsoft. Nether can sort it and Microsoft admit it is their problem!!!!! I certainly wasn't the first caller today and I don't think I was the last.
I'm sorry if I've come over a bit sharp, but I've just spent 36 hours dealing with a problem that some of you say doesn't exist. Thanks for the help, folks, I'll be going to a site which has people who know what they're talking about, rather than coming here to be told it's my own fault because I did something that I didn't even do in the first place. Grow up!!
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READ THIS CAREFULLY. THE PROBLEM ISN'T WITH SP1. THE PROBLEM IS WITH A BUNCH OF UPDATES RELEASED BY MICROSOFT IN ADVANCE OF THE RELEASE OF SP1. ONE OF THESE UPDATES TOTALLY F**KS YOUR COMPUTER.
Now, more calmly. The updates downloaded and installed onto my puter on Saturday via Windows auto updates. They need a reboot to configure and install, so you don't see the effects until your next restart. Sunday morning and I had a computer that was completely stuck in a loop for 5 hours before I finally pulled the plug.
Microsopt have now acknowledged that one of these updates is the problem. You are left with a system which is as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
Solution
1. Boot into safe mode if you can (I could).
2. Find a system restore point - I had to roll back to 6th Feb
3. SWITCH OF AUTO UPDATES OR YOU'LL BE BACK WHERE YOU STARTED
4. Residual effect is that keyboard driver irretrievably trashed, have no spacebar, return or backspace, so using another keyboard with a different driver.
5. Check out
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2748299&SiteID=17
This will tell you all you need to know.
Suffice to say that the site has had 28,000 hits so far.
Microsoft have issued a single statement confirming the problem and that are investigation.
JUST TO REPEAT FOR THE HARD OF THINKING, THIS IS NOT SP1, THIS WAS UDATES REQUIRED IF YOU ARE GOING TO INSTALL SP1 WHEN IT IS FINALLY RELEASED. THESE UPDATES WERE RELEASED BY MICROSOFT AND AUTOMATICALLY INSTALLED ON YOUR PUTER IF YOU HAD AUTO UPDATES ENABLED. THERE IS NO PIRATING INVOLVED. THERE ARE NO DODGY SITES INVOLVED. MICROSOFT HAVE RELEASED A CRITICAL UPDATE WHICH TRASHES YOUR PUTER.
Now I can only assume that there have been very few posts since Friday because all of you lot who stated that problems were due to people trying to pirate SP1 are now unable to get your puters to boot, let alone get on-line because tyou pooh-poohed the whole thing. OK, the title of thhe article is misleading, but if you'd bothered to read any of the posts from affected users, you would have seen that this was a huge problem and bog all do do with pirating.
To rub salt into the wound, this problem was discovered when SP1 RC was released to beta testers. The testers had to install the 6 prerequisite updates before they could install SP1. They hit the same wall. Yet Microsoft have done nothing about this problem and have released it as an automatic update. You really couldn't make this up.
I'm now faced with a 150Gb backup and a clean re-install of Vista, except that the microsoft update has trashed so much of my system that I can't boot from the recovery partition or even the recovery DVD.
2 hrs on the phone to Dell and another 2 to Microsoft. Nether can sort it and Microsoft admit it is their problem!!!!! I certainly wasn't the first caller today and I don't think I was the last.
I'm sorry if I've come over a bit sharp, but I've just spent 36 hours dealing with a problem that some of you say doesn't exist. Thanks for the help, folks, I'll be going to a site which has people who know what they're talking about, rather than coming here to be told it's my own fault because I did something that I didn't even do in the first place. Grow up!!