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It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: July 2012

Are the Microsoft patches giving you trouble this month? Maybe your peers can help - describe the problems you are having.

I would love to see an example.
Thanks Justin for your monthly roundup.

I'd be interested in an example, too.
This reminds me of the good old days where the .com filename extension, easily disguised as a URL, was used to execute malicious software. With that one, the two-edged sword was we had disabled hidden extensions so users wouldn't get tricked into opening the *.jpg.exe files - doh!

Initial observation:
Nothing "broken" by this month's updates (so far). Happy patching, everyone.

PC stuck preparing....preparing & not going anywhere

On two of my eight Windows XP/SP3 computer, the Windows update site tries to install some new installer software that crashes IE8. The Automatic update that does not use Internet Explorer works fine but I can't get any other updates at this time. The only thing I can find in common between the two, one is XP Home, the other is XP Pro, is that both have a system directory that is not C:\Windows due to the need to re-install Windows on each of them. All the other computer use C:\Windows as the system directory.

Note: One computer was fixed with a Fixit from Microsoft. The other is still broke.

My copy and paste no longer works....

did a restore...now i have to re update windows...

My pc with XP ran for 5 minutes after the patches were installed then shut itself down and rebooted 3 times. I was about to do a system restore, and it stayed on that time.

I've learned to live with Outlook 2007 'not responding' with my Win 7; particularly after coming out of Standby but since yesterday it appears to be even worse

On the windows updates settings (Win7Ent+SP1) I set "Download updates, but let me choose whether to install them". This morning, I was through VPN on a remote desktop session on a server. After terminating the session, I notice that after installing all windows updates, windows is waiting to restart - 11 minutes remaining!!! I check the windows update settings if they in some manner changed - still same manual install. After restarting and logging on, I checked again the windows settings and they are again the same "Download updates, but let me choose whether to install them"! I did not believe to my eyes and I dont have any explanation to this, but my computer is working normally.