Why do critical updates screw up my computer so often?

[rory.groves]

One of the reasons I am so leary to install microsoft critical updates
is because of the frequent experience of not having a working machine
when it reboots.

Just today I downloaded probably a month's worth of updates to my
otherwise up-to-date XP SP2 machine. The machine installs, reboots and
I'm greeted with 640x480x16 color VGA display. Somehow the critical
updates managed to screw with my video drivers. What?!! I used System
Restore and managed to recover one of my two screens back to hi-res
VGA. But I still have no idea what happened to my other screen.

This is not the first time i've encountered problems like this. I
repeatedly run into problems with the update patches.

I used to own a web server and had serious issues as well. sometimes
the server just wouldn't reboot and i'd have to rollback the latest
updates to recover my system.

Overall I've had much less damage done to my systems from malicious
viruses than i have from these critical updates.

Done ranting.

 

[antioch]

Don't forget public.windowsupdate - there are hundreds with problems - may
find a solution there
Rgds
Antioch

 

[NoStop]

One of the reasons I am so leary to install microsoft critical updates
is because of the frequent experience of not having a working machine
when it reboots.

That's just part of the Windoze eXPerience. You don't think that any outfit
that would sell a pathetic toy operating system like XP, would be able to
put out patches that didn't have bugs in it, do you?

Just today I downloaded probably a month's worth of updates to my
otherwise up-to-date XP SP2 machine. The machine installs, reboots and
I'm greeted with 640x480x16 color VGA display. Somehow the critical
updates managed to screw with my video drivers. What?!! I used System
Restore and managed to recover one of my two screens back to hi-res
VGA. But I still have no idea what happened to my other screen.

More than likely an update included video drivers and in its incompetence
screwed things up. MickeyMouse shouldn't even be distributing drivers for
hardware they don't manufacture themselves.

This is not the first time i've encountered problems like this. I
repeatedly run into problems with the update patches.

I used to own a web server and had serious issues as well. sometimes
the server just wouldn't reboot and i'd have to rollback the latest
updates to recover my system.

Overall I've had much less damage done to my systems from malicious
viruses than i have from these critical updates.

HAHAHA ... maybe some of these updates are malicious? Some people think so.

Done ranting.

Good, now move over to a real operating system and quit the belly-acking.
You won't get any sympathy from this group because it's just the way
Windoze works.


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[Pennywise]

One of the reasons I am so leary to install microsoft critical updates
is because of the frequent experience of not having a working machine
when it reboots.

Microsoft patch can cause IE trouble (MS06-042)
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106039.html