Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

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[KoRn]

It would have been nice if they would post exactly which updates that are causing the problems. So far, we haven’t seen this happen with any of our machines.

[frankenMonkey]

So, Windows 7 upgraded from the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ to the ‘Black Screen of Death’?

[Yo-Yo]

More PC FUD...

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[napscoordinator]

Better than the blue screen of death.../sarc.

[pillut48]

[DYngbld]

I had a Vista machine do this a few months back, don’t know if it was related to this patch or not. It was a real pain to fix it. I wish I could get everybody in the house to migrate away from MS. I have one of the kids running Linux, I need to get the others to as well.

[Knitebane]

Meet the new Windows. Same as the old Windows.

In other news: Windows 7 found to be vulnerable to 7 out of 10 randomly selected malware.

Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a working version of Windows out of my hat!

[Pistolshot]

It’s not the BLACK screen of Death.....it’s just DARK GRAY.

[hoosierham]

Hat?

Or maybe somewhere else?

[mpackard]

I had TWO laptops do this while installing Service Pack 2 on Vista...what gives???

[DannyTN]

For what operating systems?

[listenhillary]

Ping!

Drag your feet on some of those upgrades maybe.

[smokingfrog]

Never heard of Prevx.

If I have it right, it sounds like they had a patch for the ACL vulnerability before Microsoft, and then when Microsoft released a patch for the same thing, it messed up some computers with the Prevx software.

[Pistolshot]

Yeah, I read that article. Pull all the security out and of course it's vulnerable. The Applecores, as usual, are trying to make a mole-hill where none exists.

Win7 works, and works exceedingly well.

So far, none of the updates, including the one in this threads article have caused any problems in any of my machines.

[Knitebane]

I submit that DOS 4, Windows 386, ME and Vista were certainly all pulled from somewhere else.

[DonaldC]

The article seems to indicate all of them, xp, vista (xp with a girdle) and windows7 (xp with a girdle and lipstick). I have not heard of this with my corporate customer or my chuch’s network, so there must be some kind of unique trigger for it.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“We fixed all the problems, trust me.”

- Bill Gates

[SmokingJoe]

“So far, we haven’t seen this happen with any of our machines.”

I have all the latest Win 7 updates, and my machine is working as smoothly as ever. No sign of “deaths” here, black, blue, green or whatever.

[Dallas59]

7 still going here. Haven’t any problems yet.