anyone have any problems installing the new MS Security Updates?

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it went alright for me ,about about the one for windows explorer 921398?
last month's windows explorer sec update was a killer and alot of ppl had
problems with it
robin
 
I had a very silly thing happen.

I decided to turn off one desktop system as I left the office. The install
on exit routine began to run as I left. When I returned and fired up the
system, I checked my update history. NONE of the updates, save Defender, had
been installed.

Hmmm. My security must be SO STRONG that I am no longer able to install
anything. (I presently have OneCare, Defender, CA AV, and Prevx1 installed
on that particular system.)

FABULOUS! (However, the good news is that it all installed properly as I
typed this.)

Then there is the curious nature of my favorite laptop. (A love-hate
relationship of the highest order.) All of the latest security updates
installed properly ... EXCEPT for seven Office 2003-related patches from a
few of weeks ago. Microsoft Office support's final "solution" was to ask
that I scrub the drive and start over.

BRILLIANT!

I might have heeded their questionably sage advise, had it not been for the
fact that I had performed a fresh installation only a few weeks earlier.

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

I may be forced to install Vista on the blasted thing once I have thoroughly
investigated its interaction with my production (non-Microsoft) applications.
I consider the laptop as a production system, so I really don't need to
shoot myself in the foot any more times than necessary.

I can only imagine how painfully slow Vista might be on a single-core AMD 64
laptop, seeing as I liken the performance of Vista on a dual-core AMD 64x2
(with 2GB of RAM) to the operating system having removed one of the cores. I
think that I have some serious tweaking to perform.
 
Scott--in relation to those Office patches--had you done a registry clean
either at safety.live.com, or with any other registry cleaner?

I'd try calling again--an Office patch shouldn't require a rebuild--possibly
of Office, but not of Windows.

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Not of any individual patch. I did have about 4 out of maybe 20 machines
that refused all the updates on the grounds that AU was already trying to do
the same job. I went with the flow and told AU to go ahead and finish it,
and it did.
 
Taking careful aim at the great toe on my right foot ...

I generally avoid the use of registery cleaners unless ABSOLUTELY necessary.
They can do WAY too much damage. And I would not employ one so soon after a
fresh install -- and never without setting a few well placed restore points.

Might I have installed and uninstalled some badly-written utility?
Possibly. Could I have trashed the registry with a corrupted "save my
settings" file? Quite possibly.

ANYTHING is possible. Anything, that is, but registry cleaning exercises.
I do use CCleaner often, but I have never seen it do anything untoward.

As I said, I am tempted to turn the laptop into a quasi-production system
running Vista. Besides, I own far too many production systems. To be fair,
I have relegated use of my laptop to that of a VERY LARGE thumb drive (with a
crappy keyboard and 15.4" display) from which I read the majority of my email
and do precious little else. ;-)
 
What prompted that post was that I had a problem with a couple of the July
Office patches on a single system. I put in an email support incident, and
the very top of the (very long!) list of possible causes was to check
whether a Safety.live.com registy clean had been done, via looking for the
..reg file which is saved as a backup. I did, restored that stuff, and all
was well.
--
 
I installed the security updates for office 2003 with no problems, sorry you
had such problems with that one
robin
 
thanks guys :)
robin
Bill Sanderson MVP said:
Not of any individual patch. I did have about 4 out of maybe 20 machines
that refused all the updates on the grounds that AU was already trying to
do the same job. I went with the flow and told AU to go ahead and finish
it, and it did.
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