Microsoft Black Tuesday Patches Bring Blue Screens of Death

I was unaffected.

I have to say, It has been a long time since something like this has happened. Hopefully it stays that way and more hopefully doesn't come back!

From what I've read, the problems some people have had appear to have been from software conflicts. I always wait until Friday to download and install M$ updates. So far, on the rare occasions when M$ has released a faulty update, M$ has always pulled or fixed the offender by then so I've yet to get burned. When one considers the number of hardware/software combinations that are possible, it's a miracle that M$ has done as well as it has when it comes to avoiding conflicts with its updates, then responding so quickly when the rare problem crops up.

Wednesday my grandson brought his laptop to me, Win 7 would not start and went to ' startup repair' program. However no repair worked. When I tried to go to a restore point, the only one there appeared to be one automatically done before last update. The restore point did not repair his machine.
I'm afraid I have finished driving a stake into its heart by some of the repair disks I have laying around and ran on his machine, trying to restore partitions, etc. I think it will take a full reinstall of Win 7. Of course, no, he does not have (never had) a Win 7 disk. SOL, riight?
Here is the kicker. This morning when I restarted all the machines in my 'command central' my Lenovo laptop is dead in exactly the same way. Startup repair does not work and cannot find a restore point except one from just a couple days ago, when I shut down and all the (17 I think) were done. So his laptop is bricked and so is mine.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but suppose we both took this occasion to upgrade to Win 8? (Microsoft's current Vista failure OS) and a lot of others too, maybe that would boost MS's bottom line...Naw, the world's not filled with mega corporations that intentionally gig the little guy, right?

Now I have a direction to work...
I will post again when I have worked through this.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

From what I've read, the problems some people have had appear to have been from software conflicts. I always wait until Friday to download and install M$ updates. So far, on the rare occasions when M$ has released a faulty update, M$ has always pulled or fixed the offender by then so I've yet to get burned. When one considers the number of hardware/software combinations that are possible, it's a miracle that M$ has done as well as it has when it comes to avoiding conflicts with its updates, then responding so quickly when the rare problem crops up.

Agreed. I give MS props as well.

andrew129260 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

From what I've read, the problems some people have had appear to have been from software conflicts. I always wait until Friday to download and install M$ updates. So far, on the rare occasions when M$ has released a faulty update, M$ has always pulled or fixed the offender by then so I've yet to get burned. When one considers the number of hardware/software combinations that are possible, it's a miracle that M$ has done as well as it has when it comes to avoiding conflicts with its updates, then responding so quickly when the rare problem crops up.

Agreed. I give MS props as well.

If only they were as efficient in every other aspect of keeping us happy.

Gator said:

andrew129260 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

From what I've read, the problems some people have had appear to have been from software conflicts. I always wait until Friday to download and install M$ updates. So far, on the rare occasions when M$ has released a faulty update, M$ has always pulled or fixed the offender by then so I've yet to get burned. When one considers the number of hardware/software combinations that are possible, it's a miracle that M$ has done as well as it has when it comes to avoiding conflicts with its updates, then responding so quickly when the rare problem crops up.

Agreed. I give MS props as well.

If only they were as efficient in every other aspect of keeping us happy.

LOL

Gator said:

andrew129260 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

From what I've read, the problems some people have had appear to have been from software conflicts. I always wait until Friday to download and install M$ updates. So far, on the rare occasions when M$ has released a faulty update, M$ has always pulled or fixed the offender by then so I've yet to get burned. When one considers the number of hardware/software combinations that are possible, it's a miracle that M$ has done as well as it has when it comes to avoiding conflicts with its updates, then responding so quickly when the rare problem crops up.

Agreed. I give MS props as well.

If only they were as efficient in every other aspect of keeping us happy.

True that.