TaDA! Windows updates again- So? How bad was it?

[robinb9]

I see nine so far
Give me the good the bad the ugly/
thanks

 

[techtitan100]

I had 8 updates as far as security reasons go, but I had 9 if you would like to count IE11 as I installed it on my laptop along with the normal patch Tuesday updates

 

[Layback Bear]

Did two computers without any problems.

 

[C-11]

Got a bunch of them for Win 8.1(thanks Robin) & everything is fine.

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[Britton30]

I had 14, all OK, 8 were for Office 2007.
I check to see if Bing crap has been pushed again, hide it if so, and install, no worries.

Robin do you have issues with updates? You have a new thread every 2nd Tue of the month. Before updating make a Restore point or take a Macrium image if anything goes wrong.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep 11 for me all Important office 2007 included with ie10 updates,
Funny thing happened after restart,
Open ie10 and home page was very slow to load my.msn.com
A new tab opened showing a privacy statement for ie9

Okay closed and I delete cache on exit anyway so that's all it did,
Reopened ie10 and everything is okay so far ?

 

[NoN]

So far no probs...but also a funny thing happenned. It reboot twice by itself. I do not know yet which one have caused that manner.

 

[Britton30]

Mine did that too NoN, it was odd.

 

[robinb9]

I had 14, all OK, 8 were for Office 2007.
I check to see if Bing crap has been pushed again, hide it if so, and install, no worries.

Robin do you have issues with updates? You have a new thread every 2nd Tue of the month. Before updating make a Restore point or take a Macrium image if anything goes wrong.

Nope but i would like to be safe then sorry, i have 7 of my own computers to do, 40 clients, so i like to see here if anyone had any problems with any of them before i do my own testing then my clients.
Besides it helps those who also want to check others, to see any horrors before they try theirs

 

[Ranger4]

So far no probs...but also a funny thing happenned. It reboot twice by itself. I do not know yet which one have caused that manner.

Mine rebooted twice as well, but no problems. 9 updates all told.

 

[4wd]

All well here (as usual), w 7 & w 8.

 

[ausgumbie]

14 updates. Two reboots for me too. But I'm here. All must be well.

ausgumbie

 

[Seffrid]

There's an interesting security issue in relation to this month's updates raised here:-

6/11/2014 Updates introduce one of Microsoft's worst - Microsoft Community

What's also interesting, apart from this security issue and the need for most of you to reboot twice when installing the updates, is that I haven't yet been offered them on my work machine. Normally by this time on a Wednesday afternoon in the UK I've been offered them, even tho' I don't install them for a day or two until I have seen whether they raise any issues. I'm beginning to wonder whether they've been temporarily withdrawn, although I'll have my gaming machine on shortly and will see whether they're offered on that one.

Update: My gaming machine was offered 8 updates as soon as it was switched on. I assume the work machine will be offered them next time I have it on, probably tomorrow.

 

[robinb9]

when I did the graphic one I found after reboot the desktop gallery icon I have for weather has only the words in it and graphics are gone. I know there was a way to fix this but I do not remember it. I have the dpi set to custom at 115% but it still effected all the desktop gallery icons.
anyone see this too and know how to fix it?

 

[Britton30]

Seffrid maybe the IT dept at work runs its own update server for all machines?

Robin, what do you mean "graphics one" and "desktop gallery icon?"

 

[Seffrid]

Seffrid maybe the IT dept at work runs its own update server for all machines?

No, I work from home (semi-retired) and use one of my own machines for my work independently of the company's IT support for their office-based machines, with my other one being used for gaming.

Since my earlier post I have installed the 8 updates on my gaming machine, seemingly without problems. They included KB2952664 which I've previously hidden a couple of times as it relates to future OS upgrades which I don't envisage wanting, but having it come up for the third time I thought I'd give in and install it!

 

[Seffrid]

when I did the graphic one I found after reboot the desktop gallery icon I have for weather has only the words in it and graphics are gone. I know there was a way to fix this but I do not remember it. I have the dpi set to custom at 115% but it still effected all the desktop gallery icons.
anyone see this too and know how to fix it?

Have you tried a cold reboot? I've found that sometimes fixes update issues that arise when the machine auto-reboots to complete the installation.

 

[robinb9]

yes I did, this happened on every windows 7 that had Windows desktop gadgets on it. I know Microsoft pulled off Windows gadgets because it has a security leak but on this one test machine I wanted to keep it.

 

[robinb9]

Seffrid maybe the IT dept at work runs its own update server for all machines?

Robin, what do you mean "graphics one" and "desktop gallery icon?"

windows 7 has desktop gadgets. I know Microsoft pulled them because they have a security leak, but I wanted to keep it on this particular machine. I had one for weather on it and now it looks like what you see in the picture I attached

 

[Slartybart]

Two boots at 30% each time - some security changes require registering the service

I recently restored an image, so the following might not apply to WU

IE 11 was slower
Search with Google add-on arrow is gone. I can still right click on highlighted text and pick search with Google.

That's about it. Any other anomalies, I'm chalking up to IE 11 (Enhanced Protection works a bit differently: the prompt is not as intuitive)