Dang! Was this supposed to fix the messed up fonts/characters I’ve been seeing on FR lately?
Have already experienced Outlook crashing many times under Windoze 8.1. HATE IT
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Ugh. Too late.
I tried loading Outlook 2010 in “Safe Mode With Networking” to make sure that no non-Microsoft programs were at fault.
Received this message in Safe Mode:
“Microsoft Office cannot verify the license for this Application [Outlook 2010]. A repair attempt failed or was cancelled by the user [I didn't cancel anything, so auto-repair failed]. The application will now shut down.”
I restored my system software to a time point before today's auto-update, but after yesterday's auto-update.
My computer works fine now.
I've used Windows for 20 years, and this is only the second issue I've had with an auto-update.
Several years ago, I received an update that wouldn't configure, but I did a work-around and installed it straight from the Windows website, and it worked fine.
Anyone know if Microsoft has announced a patch for this?
My computer keeps trying to download a Windows update, but I won't allow it, because I don't if it's the defective update, or a repair for the defective update.
That is not correct.
The free Outlook.com website (which is the “new” Hotmail.com) works just fine. You can still receive and send your email from there.
The problem is with the Microsoft Office Suite email software, which is confusingly called Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013.
That software requires a paid subscription and offers a platform that is superior to the free Outlook.com site.
This is why we patch on +30. Any FReepers still using “Automatic Updates” should 1) be ashamed of themselves and 2) configure them to Notify instead of install.
Thanks for the thread on this. I just pulled this KB from SCCM so it doesn’t roll out to my company. We have 3 update phases and today was just the test phase rollout so it was caught in time for me.
Outlook has always been a virus magnet. Killing it is a feature not a bug.