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I was at home had the day off so I went to use the desktop and there was 17 updates waiting to install. I decided what the hell I have time, so I let them install, what a mistake. On reboot it got to the Dell screen and stayed there forever. Rebooted again Windows startup repair never actually started. Reboot again startup repair ran nothing good happened.
I tried repeatedly to boot into safe mode, no matter what hitting F8 wouldn't get me to safe mode in fact it kept saying F12 options. Tried every possible thing I could think of. I eventually got out my restore CD's and gave it one more chance and for whatever reason after 45 minutes and countless tries, startup repair again said it didn't work, but it actually did.
Had to reboot twice more to restore network connectivity but it works. Infoworld has a blurb on it apparently 4 of the updates were bad.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/28...061-kb-2984972-kb-2949927-and-kb-2995388.html
The crazy thing was not only could I not get to safe mode, it twice asked if I wanted to restore from a restore point, I said yes, and then it instead went back into startup repair. Near as I can tell it knew the updates weren't correctly installed and kept trying to do that instead of anything else.
I have not installed them on Lucy's laptop I'm giving MS a few days to solve this nonsense. We had 2 people at work who had issues I got called at home, both of them were able to get into Safemode though and then when it rebooted, the updates now worked. Actually for one guy it gave him an error message that one update failed to install correctly and had been removed.
I tried repeatedly to boot into safe mode, no matter what hitting F8 wouldn't get me to safe mode in fact it kept saying F12 options. Tried every possible thing I could think of. I eventually got out my restore CD's and gave it one more chance and for whatever reason after 45 minutes and countless tries, startup repair again said it didn't work, but it actually did.
Had to reboot twice more to restore network connectivity but it works. Infoworld has a blurb on it apparently 4 of the updates were bad.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/28...061-kb-2984972-kb-2949927-and-kb-2995388.html
The crazy thing was not only could I not get to safe mode, it twice asked if I wanted to restore from a restore point, I said yes, and then it instead went back into startup repair. Near as I can tell it knew the updates weren't correctly installed and kept trying to do that instead of anything else.
I have not installed them on Lucy's laptop I'm giving MS a few days to solve this nonsense. We had 2 people at work who had issues I got called at home, both of them were able to get into Safemode though and then when it rebooted, the updates now worked. Actually for one guy it gave him an error message that one update failed to install correctly and had been removed.
