So I wake up this morning to go online and check out my favorite site of course. When I see my computer that I had shut down was cycling through restarts. wtf I ask myself. Ah and when my computer finally loaded, it t'was a blue screen. So I go into safe mode run system recovery and I'm back to normal easy...too easy. I go online and apparently my friend is having the same problem. He mentions that his whole building at Berkley is having major issues after installing the latest Vista Update. SO BE WEARY MY FELLOW TL-ERS (I'm running Vista Home) of the latest updates from Microsoft. I'll keep this updated as I get more information

Edit: So..if you're having the same problem and/or fear this happening to you I recommend turning off automatic update for a while until more information is out to what's up.

Control Panel > Classic View > Windows Update > Change Setting > Check for Updates but let me chose to Install hem/download Them

Edit2: Problem seems to be with JUST x64 bit machines
update name: KB973879

Scorch

Austria3371 Posts

August 27 2009 17:46 GMT

One more reason to go for XP or Windows 7.

Kletus

Canada580 Posts

August 27 2009 17:49 GMT

Windows automatic update is the first thing I turned off when I got my vista laptop. It's not like anyone makes viruses for vista anyways since no one uses it ;D.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6635 Posts

August 27 2009 17:49 GMT

Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.

HomieZ

45 Posts

August 27 2009 17:50 GMT

On August 28 2009 02:49 Kletus wrote:
Windows automatic update is the first thing I turned off when I got my vista laptop. It's not like anyone makes viruses for vista anyways since no one uses it ;D.

you shouldn't use vista in the first place... and people want you to think like that and use that against you.

jhNz

Germany2762 Posts

August 27 2009 17:52 GMT

ask this guy:
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100677

Pufftrees

2449 Posts

August 27 2009 17:52 GMT

I had the same issue and repeatedly had to restore to a previous date. Then eventually it just fixed itself... but still fails from time to time.

It is very very lame.

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

August 27 2009 18:03 GMT

On August 28 2009 02:49 jello_biafra wrote:
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.

Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........

cgrinker

United States3824 Posts

August 27 2009 18:04 GMT

Hmmm. So I had this problem where my computer kept going to the blue screen of death and it was running Vista..

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

b3h47pte

United States1317 Posts

August 27 2009 18:05 GMT

#10

vista is vista.
not our problem you didn't get the RC release of Windows 7 for free

Kletus

Canada580 Posts

August 27 2009 18:06 GMT

#11

On August 28 2009 02:50 HomieZ wrote:
you shouldn't use vista in the first place... and people want you to think like that and use that against you.

Eh, I've had this laptop for 2 years and so far it's running smooth. I think if one depends on Windows Update services(whether XP, Vista, Win7, etc) for protection, that person might be in for a world of hurt.

Also, Vista works fine for me. I did some research and messed with the registry a bit, took out some processes I didn't need and now it doesn't guzzle down RAM.

epicdoom

United States489 Posts

August 27 2009 18:07 GMT

#12

On August 28 2009 03:04 cgrinker wrote:
Hmmm. So I had this problem where my computer kept going to the blue screen of death and it was running Vista..

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

hahaa just gotta suck it up for a couple more months until 7 comes out...
Unless this was part of their grand scheme make people hate Vista so they're most inclined to get 7 when it comes out. hmm...It wouldn't be that far off Microsoft to do that...

RaGe

Belgium9947 Posts

August 27 2009 19:00 GMT

#13

On August 28 2009 03:03 StorrZerg wrote:

Show nested quote +

Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

professorjoak

318 Posts

August 27 2009 19:18 GMT

#14

Not just you. If this has happened to anybody else, here's instructions to fix:

http://www.techerator.com/2009/08/fix-windows-vista-64-bit-gets-blue-screen-after-windows-updates/

Official Microsoft hotfix page (says essentially the same thing as above link but without pictures):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/KB973879

Basically, you boot into safe mode and remove the update KB973879.

mikeymoo

Canada7170 Posts

August 27 2009 19:26 GMT

#15

I have gotten this for every update since February =[
And this.

On August 28 2009 04:00 RaGe wrote:

Show nested quote +

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

I've definitely left important stuff on my computer to wake up and have it lagging on that startup screen. wtf........

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

August 27 2009 19:38 GMT

#16

On August 28 2009 04:00 RaGe wrote:

Show nested quote +

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

My max time on vista is 4 hours time to put it off I think, but that's almost worse because then you forget about it.

Id rather just be able to turn it off or be fortunate enough to do it manually.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

August 27 2009 21:47 GMT

#17

I have Vista because it came with my Laptop. The only times I had problems with it was after updating Vista itself. Somehow MS managed to make the updater the worst part of the OS. It sometimes launched a Bluescreen on me after reboot, but when I selected "start normally" it worked all fine. Really just weird.

Oh and in the very first week Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer!) not died on me. It did recover by itself though.

coltrane

Chile988 Posts

August 27 2009 22:00 GMT

#18

all the evidence tells me once and again that microsoft is a bitch,

How long is vista working now? 3 years? How many people bought it? how many will have to buy win7 cause vista sucks just like win ME before xp?

GTR

51434 Posts

August 27 2009 23:10 GMT

#19

My laptop came with Vista but I immediately (I MEAN IMMEDIATELY) installed Windows 7 on it.
Thank god I haven't been forced with Vista for more than ten minutes.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21242 Posts

August 28 2009 00:26 GMT

#20

Am I lucky in that in my two years of running Vista, I have never gotten a blue screen?

(Did have this temporary crash once that lasted like a couple days but fixed itself once. Meh.)