Warning - KB3004394 corrupts system files

whs said:

Thanks Jim. That's good to know.

Yesterday someone was chasing that 4777 and could not find it on his updates although he saw it was on his system.

Hi...
Thanks for the info on the FIX for KB3004394 but it's not installed on my machine. I've been searching my machine and the blotched update is not installed on my machine. Ran the Windows Update feature on my PC and no updates or FIXes are available. I wonder why when I updated last Tuesday this update was not installed?. Also checked Hidden Updates and not there so I'll just leave my machine alone. I haven't had any issues what so ever so I'll just wait to see what happens.

whs said:

Just leave it alone. Someone else also reported that it did not install on his machine. No need to fix something that is not there.

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Just what i was thinking. If it's not broken then why fix it. Exactly what i thought, I'll just leave my machine as-is and wait to hear from MS. I'm sure they will explain why some of us didn't get this blotched up-date. All is good on my machine but I'm still curious on why it was not installed. Thanks for the info....

OvenMaster said:

I didn't have any activation errors or features such as Magnifier not working... but whenever I (re)booted, it took ten full minutes for my boot drive to stop thrashing and for every single desktop icon, shortcut and thumbnail to be redrawn instead of showing a plain white box!
Running the update patch solved the issues. Good thing I make Macrium images every week.

Hi...
I see that you ran into a few glitches on your machine. Many had problems and some had serious issues so lucky for you that the FIX resolved that matter. I also use Macrium and it's an excellent back-up and frequently recommend it to my friends. I also do weekly backups and luckily have yet to use it so i guess I've been kind of lucky. Have a great day.....

Initially I installed KB3004394 and had no discernable problems with it installed. Per Microsoft's recommendation I uninstalled it yesterday and also, before uninstalling, saw the supposed fix for it (4777) in WU but did not install it as I was going to wait on that. Today, even after using Check for updates, 4777 no longer appears in WU which makes sense. I guess I'm good and perhaps a new update will appear that will solve the problems KB3004394 was intended to resolve.

Wordsworth said:

Initially I installed KB3004394 and had no discernable problems with it installed. Per Microsoft's recommendation I uninstalled it yesterday and also, before uninstalling, saw the supposed fix for it (4777) in WU but did not install it as I was going to wait on that. Today, even after using Check for updates, 4777 no longer appears in WU which makes sense. I guess I'm good and perhaps a new update will appear that will solve the problems KB3004394 was intended to resolve.

Hi...

I just received update KB3011970 and apparently has nothing to do with KB3004394. It states that it's a Microsoft Silverlight update. Unless KB3004394 was originally an intended Silverlight update it seems it's just a new update.