Anyone installed today's updates yet - issues?

[Scottyboy99]

It's a shame that we don't get any advance notification about the updates anymore. Currently away from my home machine. Have today's patch tuesday updates been released yet? Any issues or do they appear to be safe?

 

[shadow2201]

I only have 1 update so far for today, and it's an update to Windows Defender. All good so far for me!

 

[DavidE]

I just checked and have 21 updates available.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Kb3001652 seems to be stuck - something to do with visual studio tools for office runtime - reading around it seems quite a few others are seeing this. What should I do? Shall I select stop installation? It's already installed 6 and was on this 7 out of 21. I don't want things to mess up!

 

[Scottyboy99]

Ok this is a pain. I hit stop installation fed up of waiting for it but the process isn't cancelling. It's still saying installing updates stuck on 7 out of 21 except the stop installation button is greyed out now. Nightmare, I don't want to bodge windows because of this update

 

[shadow2201]

I got through mine just fine! No problems here.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Yeah but did you have kb3001652? I clicked restart but now instead of restarting its stuck on installing update 7 of 21 please do not power off or unplug your machine! It's pretty bad as I have a cache SSD which doesn't take kindly to unclean forced shutdowns. Messes up the cache map - worst time to happen too in the middle of updates!!!

 

[techtitan100]

just waiting on them is a pain its stuck on 4 of 34 because of the damn windows malicious software removal tool and its also draining my laptop battery to

 

[Ranger4]

I installed all 13 updates this morning. Required 1 restart & no problems to report.

 

[NoN]

I did a quick search...here the results: Kb3001652 - Search Microsoft.com

Looks a well discussed issue!

I'm trying to install it as stand-alone, in a few minutes...Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime

Edit:
Looks that this Kb 3001652 had been pulled up from Windows Update, i do not have it installed because i'd hard rebooted and its not showing up again.

 

[shadow2201]

Yeah but did you have kb3001652? I clicked restart but now instead of restarting its stuck on installing update 7 of 21 please do not power off or unplug your machine! It's pretty bad as I have a cache SSD which doesn't take kindly to unclean forced shutdowns. Messes up the cache map - worst time to happen too in the middle of updates!!!

Yup, I installed all 21 without any problems, computer is running just fine afterwards as well.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I have my M$ updater set to only notify me that updates are available, then wait until Saturday morning to download and install them. That way, there is plenty of time for dodgy updates to be reported. Usually, M$ pulls any dodgy ones before Saturday morning.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Looks like this poisonous visual studio update has been pulled perhaps. I got lucky, forced shutdown and cache map restored. The 6 uodated installed and I dvebtually got back in ok to install the other ones but the kb3001652 was missing from the list. It didn't show under my installed updates either. Why do Microsoft mot test these things properly. Googling about and looks like it's wreaked havoc. Patch Tuesday is fast become a very stressful thing!!!

 

[Scottyboy99]

Lady Fitzgerald I think you have more sense than me!!!

 

[Indianatone]

I have always installed the updates when they come out as I have multiple machines running multiple OS so I can recover. I di a forced reboot on my Windows 7 machines and unchecked the update and installed everything else. This Toshiba Laptop is still offering me the update.....hahah One of my Windows 8 OS is STUCK on installing that one update. I shall intervene shortly. On one machine the update actually installed correctly and brought up a standalone installer which I had to click next, OK and exit. So maybe that is the issue.
How on earth they think they can get Windows 10 ready in June with these continually hosed updates I do not know. Depends on the definition of ready.....
So far out of 5 machines it installed correctly a total of once. Do they even test these updates?

 

[shadow2201]

So far on the 10 machines I have in my office, it's installed flawlessly on all 10, no issues. Hope the rest of you get through it all! Remember, don't panic, don't stress, just step back, breath, and get back to it!

 

[Seffrid]

I have my M$ updater set to only notify me that updates are available, then wait until Saturday morning to download and install them. That way, there is plenty of time for dodgy updates to be reported. Usually, M$ pulls any dodgy ones before Saturday morning.

I also wait these days for the Patch Watch advice on Windows Secrets from Susan Bradley, a MS MVP who also posts here occasionally. It costs a mere $12 per year for the service and, along with using this site, is the best way I've found of getting good advice on updates and other related stuff.

 

[NoN]

Finally i got it (Kb3001652) installed fine as a stand-alone package....

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...Do they even test these updates?

I'm sure they do. Keep in mind there are thousands, if not tens or hudreds of thousands, possible combinations of hardware and software out there and there is no way M$ can test for all of them. I feel M$ does a remarkable job of avoiding problems with updates, considering how may possible senarios they have to allow for, even though they have had more than the normal amount of problems the past year.

 

[spencer1]

Lady Fitzgerald I think you have more sense than me!!!

i ain't never had no sense with no computer until i started reading lady fitzgerald