March 10th 2015 Windows Updates

Hi ddrkitten, welcome to 7F! :)

It's probably related to this: MS Update 3033929 Causing Reboot Loop I realize yours is freezing and not looping the reboot, but that's what one of the earlier updates did. 3033920 is a rebuild of the Rescinded 2949927 from October.

You would find much better help in our: https://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/ Forum.

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To give you some steps you can try, you should still start a new thread in the Windows Updates and Activation forum. In step #3 instead of repairing your machine you could try Last known good configuration.
How To Fix Windows 7 Update Reboot Loop Problems: Microsoft's KB3033929 Patch Causing Restart Issues

https://Update KB3033929 fails with error code 80004005 | social.technet.microsoft.com

From Jesse's post. I've seen this around the web about the double re-boot; I failed to mention in an earlier post that my machine only rebooted once.

ThrashZone said:

Yea super freak is fixed I passed the test in the freak news story earlier,

NoN said:

Got yesterday twelve of them, all installed fine and rebooted twice.

Jesse Williams said:

lehnerus2000 said:

Was there a fix included for FREAK?
Did everyone else's machines reboot twice?

Yes, mine rebooted twice.

Thanks for the confirmation. :)

Mine rebooted twice as well. But no problems experienced with this update at all.

I check for updates manually everyday as I use MSE & update it daily just after I start up each morning. Although I have install updates automatically set, I always check manually & install all updates as they become available. In years of doing this I have never had a problem with updates.

I don't pick & choose updates to install, I just install all of them & install them in the order that MS supplies them.

Seffrid said:

ddrkitten said:

I'm having issues with my laptop that I believe it to be linked to the March 10th update. After I updated my computer, it began freezing for no reason. I've even gone so far as to try to use system restore to 'undo' the update (usually worked in the past for crappy updates) but the restore takes hours and keeps failing. I don't know what to do since the moment I turn on my PC, I might have five minutes before everything stops. Any advice would help.

It might not be caused by the update, but that's one heck of a coincidence.

Uninstalling updates through Control Panel/Programs is usually a far more reliable way of rolling back to pre-updates than using system restore. You might want to give that a try.

Having a system image prior to updates is the best way of getting out of trouble. In my experience update trouble doesn't happen often but it can occasionally. I have all my PCs on "tell me about updates but don't download or install until I say so".

mjf said:

Seffrid said:

ddrkitten said:

I'm having issues with my laptop that I believe it to be linked to the March 10th update. After I updated my computer, it began freezing for no reason. I've even gone so far as to try to use system restore to 'undo' the update (usually worked in the past for crappy updates) but the restore takes hours and keeps failing. I don't know what to do since the moment I turn on my PC, I might have five minutes before everything stops. Any advice would help.

It might not be caused by the update, but that's one heck of a coincidence.

Uninstalling updates through Control Panel/Programs is usually a far more reliable way of rolling back to pre-updates than using system restore. You might want to give that a try.

Having a system image prior to updates is the best way of getting out of trouble. In my experience update trouble doesn't happen often but it can occasionally. I have all my PCs on "tell me about updates but don't download or install until I say so".

System Restore was sometimes iffy with XP and I never was able to get the thing to work at all with Win 7 so I now just shut it off and use imaging (via Macrium Reflect)to go back to when the image was made. I have never had a verified image later fail on me and I've had only one image that failed verification (I have MR set to automatically verify an image after making it).

I also have my PCs set to "tell me about updates but don't download or install until I say so". One reason I always wait until Saturday morning to run M$ updates is on Friday I run full security scans on my computer (instead of the faster quick scans) and immediately after that, I make an image of my boot drive before running my data drive backups. That way, when I run the updates on Saturday morning, if something should go pear shaped, I can just restore my boot drive using the image from the evening before. When running the updates, I will run no more than a set of fifteen at a time, starting with the ones at the bottom of the list, rebooting between each set.

That said, I had a significantly stupidly serious Senior moment this morning. I have had a rough week with my asinine allergies, sinuses, TMJ (it's weird having a toothache where there are no teeth), and back so my head wasn't where it belonged (it's dark up there!) when I started to run the updates. After I double checked to make sure KB3033929 hadn't been pulled, I hit OK without first unchecking all but the bottom fifteen updates and KB3033929 and running all 26 updates at once. I started to interrupt the process but decided the heck with it and let it run while I laid down for a while to see what would happen since I could always restore from the image if things went south. It did the two reboots others have reported and everything has been working fine since then.

I had another 4 updates this morning, plus the usual MSE update & as you can see 2 of them were installed twice. No reboot & all went well.