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many years ago, i used to tell customers AOL was the worst thing to install in your computer.
but now, McAfee (and norton 360) have totally trumped AOL.
want a real headache of a computer to work on?
A Vista system with only 1GB of RAM, mcafee and AOL installed, with a dial-up connection.
Nailed it 100%
Like I said earlier, "Sacraficing productivity in the name of Security". How can one do this when it totally voids the ability to be productive...
When it is told by the appropriate account with appropriate permissions to do something, it should. That is Windows security, groups, accounts, permissions etc... All the failed 'security' in XP (and Vista) was exploits, not permission issues. So why the locked down OS M$?
Thank God our corporate IT hasnt made us upgrade to Win7 yet... But I think its coming...
Why in the world are you installing LDR non-security updates? Those things have only been tested for the person or company they were written for - don't install anything like that unless you actually need the fixes they provide (and given one's an OLE update and one's a mobile device center update, I'm doubting you're doing it because both are broken at once!).
Last night when I shut down this computer, these updates had already been automatically downloaded and they automatically applied as the computer shut down.
Should I not be trusting automatic updates?? Do I need to spend time researching whether or not a particular update applies to my machine??
That's interesting - I just noticed my machines started seeing 982110 and 2272691 being offered........... so, now that gets interesting. One's an oleaut32 update, and one's an appcompat update, so I'm not sure how they would break networking..... but I guess anything's possible.
With that in mind, as standard troubleshooting, if you remove those two updates, does the problem go away?
How about apply one (the app compat update) and reboot to see if it's broken again? It would be worth figuring out which one (if any) actually causes it, so we can troubleshoot the why.