Corrupted Windows After Win Update

[Guest]

I downloaded the latest windows update including the windows validation (No
problems). Immediatly afterward, my computer started acting crazy. Norton
won't load or enable auto protect, IE explorer won't load. Also , In control
panel, System, Internet Options, Internet Connections won't load. System is
extremly slow and get easily hung up. I can't log on to my second user
account and the system won't shut down (get's stuck "Saving Settings"). I
tried to back up my files and back-up would not start. After fiddling for a
while, I got back-up to start but immediatly halted due to "shadow
volume-Catistropic failure". These are just some of the system problems.

I've pulled the Hard Drive and scanned with Norton & Mcafee. I've also run
Ad-Aware, Spybot, Trojan Hunter & Xoftspy. Everything comes up clean.

Win XP Pro, AMD 64, 1024 RAM, WD SATA 160, WD 80 (Secondary), MSI
NEO-Platinum MB, Duel DVD, 1.44, Zip.

Please let me know if anyone has found a fix for this besides a complete
re-install

Thanks!!!

 

[MAP]

I downloaded the latest windows update including the windows
validation (No problems). Immediatly afterward, my computer started
acting crazy. Norton won't load or enable auto protect, IE explorer
won't load. Also , In control panel, System, Internet Options,
Internet Connections won't load. System is extremly slow and get
easily hung up. I can't log on to my second user account and the
system won't shut down (get's stuck "Saving Settings"). I tried to
back up my files and back-up would not start. After fiddling for a
while, I got back-up to start but immediatly halted due to "shadow
volume-Catistropic failure". These are just some of the system
problems.

I've pulled the Hard Drive and scanned with Norton & Mcafee. I've
also run Ad-Aware, Spybot, Trojan Hunter & Xoftspy. Everything comes
up clean.

Win XP Pro, AMD 64, 1024 RAM, WD SATA 160, WD 80 (Secondary), MSI
NEO-Platinum MB, Duel DVD, 1.44, Zip.

Please let me know if anyone has found a fix for this besides a
complete re-install

Thanks!!!

System restore?or
uninstall the updates.

 

[Guest]

I am also having this problem with my Windows XP machine as well as some of
my co-workers. We have done several troubleshooting steps (logging into safe
mode, system restores to previous dates, disabling everything under msconfig,
uninstalling recent windows updates) but our computers seem to hang at the
login prompt and say "applying computer settings." If we re-start and then
unplug our computers from the network (we are on a win2003 domain) it will
allow us to login to the machine under our profile.

After doing the above mentioned step and finally logging into windows
Internet Explorer loads as a process but never even appears as a window. You
cannot get into the properties under My Computer. Also when we do restart
after getting into our profile the shutdown process seems to hang and there
are several application errors that pop up with 0x0000000 messages.

The only thing we know for sure is that our machines did automatic windows
updates this morning sometime before 8AM EST. We are sure that it is not a
DNS issue (we have found some older posts similar to our issues) as other XP
machines on the domain are working fine.

 

[Guest]

One of the guys in my office found out what our issue is. Don't know if it
is related to yours or not.

here is the link to the newsgroup article that fixed us right up.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...-8EB7A22FC6A0&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

The gist of it is that we have APC UPS's that run power logging and
environmental monitoring software for us that went haywire after July 27th
because it ran on an old version of the Java Runtime. The software just quits
working after the 27th and makes Windows very unhappy when it does. Removed
the APC mointoring software (PowerChute Business Edition) software and we are
working great.

Hope this helps someone before they format their machine in frustration.