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It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: March 2011

Are the patches described by Justin giving you trouble this month? Share your experience with your peers, maybe the TechRepublic Community can help?

just bought a new DELL, then had to take it back to the store because of the Win7 SP1 update. Looks like MS is continuing as usual at using us as their test lab. Gee thank MS! He had to bring it back to Staples and have it replaced. The techs over there couldn't figure out what happened either. He couldn't even reinstall the operating system using the recovery partition!!

I never let a client put anything on their PC until it is fully updated. This providing they are behind a hardware firewall. So far I've found the Win7 x64 firewall is sufficient for folks who only have a modem; for at least as long as it takes to update.

Needless to say, like the XP SP3 update year ago; I'm putting SP1 on hold until they get the bugs out. Too bad we didn't get prior warning like we did back then.

"He couldn't even reinstall the operating system using the recovery partition!!"

There is zero way that a service pack or other patch could make this happen, unless it magically wiped out the recovery partition (not happening). What's MUCH more likely is that his brand new PC experienced a failure a few days after being purchased. Computers tend to either die in the first week of purchase (manufacturing defect), or a long time after you buy them.

J.Ja

the computer booted up and was working until the update. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this is DELL's fault; but even the patch cycle that I received that same day for Vista hosed my machine. Browsers would take forever or not open, anti-virus exploded - I ended up reinstalling all AV/AM software and changing one brand on that too!

Then MS wouldn't send me my .NET updates that should have come with that package, so I had to go to Secunia PSI to get them. Now my PC is up to snuff again(with the exception of Rapport, but I'm working with Trusteer on that one).
When are we going to be relieved of test lab duty!??

"You???ll want to patch this immediately since we know how people are more than happy to open videos of cats doing cute things."
Priceless.

Otherwise, no difficulties with the patch.

yet...

I haven't installed sp1 for my Win7 machines (work/personal), either. A few ppl in my office experienced... um, difficulties after installing it.

Perhaps I'll wait another week

I installed SP1 in my W7 and my w2008 15 servers, and eveything is going smoothly as before... no problems.

BR,

I've installed W7/2008 R2 SP1 on a number of machines, no problems for me so far.

J.Ja

Completely hosed my HP laptop. Failed because of Languages packs (as per hundreds of posted on the Net). NTOSKRNL.EXE is consuming 50% of my machine. ARGH!!!

A great rule of thumb is to NEVER install language packs unless you need them. They waste massive amounts of space, and the installations of them have been weird for a while. Vista SP1 wouldn't install if you had the language packs installed, for example.

J.Ja

Using Win7 and IE9 beta
Another ain't broke so let's fix it Tuesday has come and gone...
Every set of updates for two months has created another problem from and not limited to sleep resume, LAN and the currently really aggravating IE has encountered a problem and needs to close, we'll be in touch if we get around to it.

I can hardly wait for next Tuesday.

We are seeing some issues on the servers that host Symantec products. Other than that everything seems ok.

so far 2 of the 4 desktops i put into the test group failed to reboot. "fatal error". the fix involves booting to safe mode and editing a line in the SP! XML file.

If you are a Dell shop, like we are... you may have been experiencing random BSOD reports after patching. This unfortunately is due to clashes with the video driver. Microsoft had finally re-released the patches to expand scope for W7 32/64 and Server 2008 32/64. We went about the labor of ensuring vid drivers updated to at least 6.14.10.5284 as a potential fix.

The updates continually locks ups my wife's laptop. I went through each section of it and still am unable to figure what was freezing it up. So DEATH to Win 7 SP 1..! However, my desktop has no problems with it. But then mine is older, slower, and uses AMD. Could this be the PROBLEM????

no problems
and no restarts to boot
(NPI)

I am not a professional tech guy but I do have 5 win 7 machines and one vista on my small network
I have allowed auto update on all but one machine that we use for accounts
The only problem lately has been this windows explorer has an error and needs to restart on one win 7.
I hope this is my biggest problem.
I tend to delay updates to our accounting machine until I have had input from forums like this one
as for upgrading to Win 7 I have only one machine that went from vista to 7 that has given me a few problems
I finally killed by doing a clean install.
I know industry will hang on for a few years yet to XP but I am happy to have made the switch given that win 7 is more able to self heal which is important to a small business situation similar to the one I have.
I have been receiving techrepublic since 2000 and I have found it to be a valuable source of reliable information which is credit to all the professionals who spend a moment to input their experiences.
Thanks to all of you

I have tried installing KB2479943 using Automatic Update, Windows Update and installing on shutdown but it still won't install and doesn't give a reason! Why is this?

sp 1 broke the print spooler on one of my machines. shows as running in services, but printers are not available. trying to add printer says print spooler not running. AAARRGH.

I have installed SP1 to some of our PCs and Servers and averything seems to be OK. Of course all of them have the lastest bios, drivers and patches installed!