KB925902 again

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Posted this on April 3:

I got an alert a few minutes ago from Update about a new patch, which I
assumed was the ANI bug fix. Downloaded it and installed it; computer would
not restart. After the repair routine, tried to restart again with no luck.
Second time through, Vista Home Premium reverted to an earlier repair point
and I could restart.

This patch is again waiting for download, but I'm not sure I want to try it
right away until I get some thoughts on what may be going on. I'm using a
Gateway laptop with Home Premium OEM -- the computer is less than a month
old, and doesn't yet have much of anything loaded except for what came with
the original package. Firefox 2 is the only major exception.
----

I tend to let my computer hibernate or sleep, but did restart it this
afternoon, and again was unable to reboot. It appears that the patch
autoinstalled the previous night -- I'm going to change that default setting
tonight.

Now things look strange. In Windows Update, the patch shows as having failed
to install once (4/3/07) and installed successfully the following day (this
according to "View update history." But then when I go to "Installed
Updates," the installation doesn't appear. Last installation was on Mar.
30th. And update is again telling me I have something waiting to install.

I know what that is, and I'll bet it's going to crash my system again, just
as it did today.

Unlike some of the other posters, I haven't been getting any failure
messages after install: my computer simply won't reboot.

A responder earlier asked if a certain folder existed on another poster's
computer -- it does on mine but I forgot the name WindowsUpdate something?

I have to restart the computer again now to finish installing a new audio
driver, and I wonder if it will restart normally or not -- sigh! Doesn't
look like there is a critical mass yet of folks with problems to make it
easy to diagnose a cure. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
hogyu said:
Posted this on April 3:

I got an alert a few minutes ago from Update about a new patch, which I
assumed was the ANI bug fix. Downloaded it and installed it; computer
would
not restart. After the repair routine, tried to restart again with no
luck.
Second time through, Vista Home Premium reverted to an earlier repair
point
and I could restart.

This patch is again waiting for download, but I'm not sure I want to try
it
right away until I get some thoughts on what may be going on. I'm using a
Gateway laptop with Home Premium OEM -- the computer is less than a month
old, and doesn't yet have much of anything loaded except for what came
with
the original package. Firefox 2 is the only major exception.
----

I tend to let my computer hibernate or sleep, but did restart it this
afternoon, and again was unable to reboot. It appears that the patch
autoinstalled the previous night -- I'm going to change that default
setting tonight.

Now things look strange. In Windows Update, the patch shows as having
failed to install once (4/3/07) and installed successfully the following
day (this according to "View update history." But then when I go to
"Installed Updates," the installation doesn't appear. Last installation
was on Mar. 30th. And update is again telling me I have something waiting
to install.

I know what that is, and I'll bet it's going to crash my system again,
just as it did today.

Unlike some of the other posters, I haven't been getting any failure
messages after install: my computer simply won't reboot.

A responder earlier asked if a certain folder existed on another poster's
computer -- it does on mine but I forgot the name WindowsUpdate something?

I have to restart the computer again now to finish installing a new audio
driver, and I wonder if it will restart normally or not -- sigh! Doesn't
look like there is a critical mass yet of folks with problems to make it
easy to diagnose a cure. Any advice would be appreciated.
Click to expand...

Just rebooted successfully; installed updates still shows a successful
installation of 925902 but it doesn't show on the installed updates list,
and is still waiting to be downloaded. I think it will stay there a while,
although the reports that Firefox is not vulnerable to the .ani exploit were
apparently wrong. I hope the virus/malware packages have ways of shutting
down the problems...
 
First mistake, you trusted vista
second mistake, you trusted patches for vista


You know that if something is terribly wrong from the start,
however big the effort to fix it, it is most likley unfixable!

The only practical way, is to ditch it, and wait for the next version of
windows, codenamed vienna. Perhaps microsoft will have learned
to do better work after the vista fiasco.
 
I installed that update in XP, and it screwed it up; luckily /I had a backup.
It is sitting there waiting for me in Vista, and it can wait!
Why don't you go into windows update in Vista, and change the settings. You
can have it like XP was, whereby it will notify you that updates are ready to
be DOWNLOADED, not after the event has happened.

Mick Murphy in Australia
 
Hi guys
after the update on windows xp, my pc wont start got the screen of death,
and it keep restating , i tried safe mode, same thing happen. cant use the pc
any more

any idea how to go around this thing.

its crazy
 
try going into safe mode by pressing the F8 key on the keyboard before
windows starts, then do a system restore to a time before you installed
those updates... then set the update to manual and make sure you dont
install the particular one and try to find another way to solve that problem
 
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