What The Hell Is Wrong With MS?

[Fyron]

But not for SE5.

[Baron Grazic]

Hi Atrocities,
To get rid of the "red x shield icon in my system tray" go into Services, and disable the "Security Center". This is the windows service that monitors if you Windows Updates, and Virus Scanner is up-to-date.
Baron Grazic

[narf poit chez BOOM]

How would you get it to stop telling you when you unplug the internet?

(*Grumble* Stupid nightmares. Was supposed to be asleep. *Grumble*)

[Ragnarok]

Atrocities said:
Well I re-installed the latest update and was off line again until I did a system restore. Does any one know how you can send MS a complaint letter? I mean this update is pissing me off to no end. I finally just decided to turn off Auto-Updates and now I have this little red x shield icon in my system tray.

You can keep auto-update running without installing that particular update. When it wants to install the new update go to custom install instead of the express install. Uncheck the box for that update and I believe when you close the window it will bring up another window asking you what to do with that update. Check the box saying not to remind you again of this particular update. I've done that in the past several times.

[Azselendor]

Microsoft should have been broken up into a bunch of smaller companies. It would have allowed for more competition and productivity and a higher quality of product.

[Baron Munchausen]

Atrocities said:
Aaarrrrrgggg! WTH Microsoft! What the HELL?

My computer runs fine, no problems to speak of until Windows updates. Following the restart I discover I can no long access the internet. After hours and hours of trouble shooting I finally decided that the best course of action would be to do a system restore. Well that worked. I must have restarted by computer half a dozen times before the restore trying to get my network card working again. Hell I couldn't even access the DSL Modem/Router, until after I performed the restore.

What the hell is wrong with Microsoft that when updating the update kills your network card? When I called them they wanted me to pay to fix the problem, a problem that THEY caused. HP was a bit more helpful, they recommended the restore and that worked. I had to lie to them to get the help though, but alls fair in the land of Software and hardware.

I do wish that there was a way to get microsofts attention and FORCE those SOB's to be responsible for what their UPDATES do to peoples computers.

Hell my system clock is still messing up and they haven't even addressed that issue yet. WTH?

Well, now it's my turn to fight with the MS Update from Hell. I tried uninstalling the Cumulative Security Patch for Internet Explorer but even that didn't work. I had to resort to System Restore also.

At least this is a new install and I am in the process of setting things up the way I like. Not much was lost and it's easily re-installed. I'll be much more wary of MS 'fixes' in the future. Unfortunately, you often do need them. I'll just let others download them first and wait for the field testing report... Since I plan to install IE 7 I wonder if that will also have a 'Cumulative Security Update'?

[Baron Munchausen]

Uh oh... now there is a June "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer"...

Has anyone installed it yet? Did it cut you off?

[Atrocities]

If they charged for these updates I would venture a bet that they would be worth something then.

[Baron Munchausen]

It seems that reports of the same problem are stating to appear for this patch...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200....aspx#comments