Windows Updates

[Guest]

I've been doing updates to my Windows 2000 & IE6 Sp1, and dowloaded 5
security updates from the windows updates website. When I rebooted my IE was
not working & would constantly freeze up when I'd try to open anything in IE.

I went through and removed update 889293(as a first step guess to remove 1
update at a time untoil IE worked) an IE 6 security upadate and now IE 6
works fine. Is this common to have these issues when downloading stuff from
the Windowsupdate site, and should I consider reinstalling that update by
itself.

Thanks for any help anybody can give.

JEFF

 

[Guest]

I don't know enough about the technicalities. All I know is that, having
downloaded the latest updates from Microsoft one month ago, my Windows 2000
freezes at random intervals and without notice.

I could be, say, writing a letter, downloading my emails, working online,
working offline, watching the screensaver, staring blankly at a motionless
desktop with no applications running (moving the mouse every two minutes to
check that the machine is still "awake").... no difference. It just freezes.
Power-off is the only solution (wait until the hard disk heads are parked
first!).

I recall this being a symptom of W2K SP3. I presume that the idiot who
programmed that classic bug - that Microsoft denied for months, almost a year
- has not yet been fired and is now doing the same thing for the current
updates to SP4.

Does anybody else have similar experiences?

 

[Rob Stow]

I don't know enough about the technicalities. All I know is that, having
downloaded the latest updates from Microsoft one month ago, my Windows 2000
freezes at random intervals and without notice.

I could be, say, writing a letter, downloading my emails, working online,
working offline, watching the screensaver, staring blankly at a motionless
desktop with no applications running (moving the mouse every two minutes to
check that the machine is still "awake").... no difference. It just freezes.
Power-off is the only solution (wait until the hard disk heads are parked
first!).

I recall this being a symptom of W2K SP3. I presume that the idiot who
programmed that classic bug - that Microsoft denied for months, almost a year
- has not yet been fired and is now doing the same thing for the current
updates to SP4.

Does anybody else have similar experiences?

I am getting periodic locks ups of the Explorer shell. For
example, I will be working in one app and then find I can't
switch apps by clicking on a task bar icon. The start menu
won't work and if I close or minimize all of my apps, the
desktop won't be shown after the last one is minimized or closed.

I haven't had to reboot, though. What I've been doing is
C-A-D to bring up Task Manager, shut down the Explorer
process, then use File|New Task (Run) to start a new copy
of the Explorer shell.