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Windows update mess
Saturday, 15 Aug, 2009 – 12:42 | No Comment

I couldn’t find a newsgroup that was English Windows updates, so since most updates involve security issues I guess I will vent here. This is the second time in about two months that my Vista Home Premium 32 bit desktop computer has been stuck in Update hell. It was perfectly fine all day yesterday and then when I started it this morning, it went to the green and blue screen “Configuring Update

mrxdav.sys
Monday, 13 Jul, 2009 – 8:43 | No Comment

I have a windows 2003 SBS server on service pack 2. Last night it blue screened and the minidump is pointing to a file called mrxdav.sys

helllllllllp pleasssssssseeeeeeee
Monday, 29 Jun, 2009 – 13:08 | No Comment

Hi Leo, let me start this nightmare story i had just done a fresh restalled and spent hours on getting everything installed on pc all was fine working perfectly untill that is i installed vista service pack 1 from windows updates the update process crashed halfway through so i had the only option to restart my pc then came the blue screen of death and

Why do you want to crash?
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 22:32 | No Comment

A hotfix is available to enable CrashOnCtrlScroll support for a USB keyboard on a computer that is running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008: – THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS “DIVA”: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/06/10/a-hotfix-is-available-to-enable-crashonctrlscroll-support-for-a-usb-keyboard-on-a-computer-that-is-running-windows-vista-sp1-or-windows-server-2008.aspx So why would you WANT to blue screen your box?

Why do you want to crash?
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 22:32 | No Comment

A hotfix is available to enable CrashOnCtrlScroll support for a USB keyboard on a computer that is running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008: – THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS “DIVA”: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/06/10/a-hotfix-is-available-to-enable-crashonctrlscroll-support-for-a-usb-keyboard-on-a-computer-that-is-running-windows-vista-sp1-or-windows-server-2008.aspx So why would you WANT to blue screen your box?

Bluescreen everytime I update Vista 64bit SP1
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 22:55 | No Comment

Hi, Every time I update Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1 using the Windows update after a restart I get a blue screen.

Bluescreen everytime I update Vista 64bit SP1
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 22:55 | No Comment

Hi, Every time I update Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1 using the Windows update after a restart I get a blue screen. I have to go into safe mode (sometimes the updates are finished at this point when going to safe mode) and in safe mode reboot again and after that all is fine.

Blue Screen after KB915597
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 11:22 | No Comment

Half an hour ago, on 7:40 pm Central European Summer Time, June 1st, 2009, I routinely ran Windows Update on my PC with Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 (yes, I have had the service pack, 6002.18005, before most people). The attempt to update the Windows Defender definitions, with the brand new KB915597, ended up with a blue screen of death

After updating machine goes into stby
Monday, 11 May, 2009 – 10:51 | No Comment

After I ran windows update my computer goes into stby every time it sits idle for a while. By that I mean that I move the mouse and the blue screen pops up with my user name, I click on it and windows opens up again. I do not have stby, sleep, or hibernation mode activated

Blue screen after installing Windows Updates
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 18:36 | No Comment

I’m receiving “blue screens” and the only new changes are recent Windows Updates. I haven’t added hardware or software, just the windows updates.

Blue screen after installing Windows Updates
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 18:36 | No Comment

I’m receiving “blue screens” and the only new changes are recent Windows Updates. I haven’t added hardware or software, just the windows updates. My Internet Explorer won’t work properly either (I use IE6..

Cannot use windows update
Wednesday, 15 Apr, 2009 – 7:27 | No Comment

Whenever I try to use windows update ,the updates download normally and then I am prompted to restart my computer..Then I get the blue screen on startup that says windows didn’t start to protect my computer from damage..then I have to use system restore to restart my computer and updates fail to install…