I have a pavilion dv6000 and the very same update did exactlt the same to my PC, i found this thread looking to see if any one else had this problem. i had to do a system restore

Yes, there is a problem with one of 10 updates loading this week. My hard drive would not boot, it crashed and needed restoration. I replaced the HD and then discovered that it was not perm damaged. when reinstalling the OS (win xp) it would not repair and I had to format the HD (leaving the files on did not work). I have turned updates off until I can find resolution to this problem. My computer is a toshiba portege m200.

I have 2 HP dv2000 Laptops with windows Vista 32 bit and Vista 64 bit after installing updates my systems have crashed just as the update was 100% complete. At the restart of the update the boot loader would indicate a error and encourage a system restore.

I just bought an ACER X1200 about a month ago. everything working great. i thought i had turned off those annoying auto updates.

well, nope, because the same update you guys are writing about crashed my PC and i had to reformat the harddisk and start from scratch.

customer service at ACER was cool, but said it was microsoft's fault for sending out updates that aren't ready. unbelievable.

i'm definitely backing everything up to an external drive now.

VISTA sucks.

The same thing happened to me, I have a Dell Vostro. I restarted my pc as prompted, to install the vista updates. Upon restarting, my pc ground to a halt. I kept shuttiing down and restarting, but the same thing every time. It seemed to hang after logging in (on the 'welcome' message). I left it 'hang' for about half an hour, and eventually windows explorer opened, but kept crashing and going EXTREMELY slow.

I launched task manager and tried ending some of the processes.. What seemed to fix the issue, not 100% sure yet, was ending my AVG anti-virus processes. I have seen elsewhere that vista updates can mess up anti-virus software, so maybe there was a conflict going on..

I've learned my lesson the hard way though, I'm defo gonna give ubuntu + linux a try.. sick to the teeth with windows problems, it's scandolous that Microsoft get away with releasing dodgy operating systems, and to top it off even dodgier updates!!

I just had the same problem over thanksgiving weekend. the only way my laptop runs now is on safemode which pretty much won't let you do anything to your computer. i tried system restore and it will only let me go back to the date that th so called update was installed. so im stuck with a laptop that only works in safemode, no audio because that wont work in safemode, cant even go on windows to download anything to repair it, and no antivirus because somehow that doesnt work either. im going to take the antivirus off tonight and see if that will help, it doesnt really matter since it aint working anyways. lol.

We have 4 Dell PC's in our office, each one has crashed today as a result of this windows update. I believe that there will be more to come

My pavillion dv 9000 informed me via HP health check i needed to update my BIOS with a new update . foolishly i trusted it . Followed the instructions to the letter. Had no problems downloading. However on trying to restart after instillation it would not. The monitor had strange pictulated bars running vertically 2 inches apart and the system would stop and restart asking me to select recommended start mode (repair files) . NOTHING worked to get the computer to restart but safe mode. HP can take a long walk of a short pier i will NEVER BUY ANOTHER HP PRODUCT AS LONG AS I LIVE!

Same thing happened to me and i was surfing the net to find a solution and someone refered me to this logonfixit.com place. They logged on and fixed it. I didn't have to pay until 2 or 3 days after they fixed it. They wanated me to make sure it was up and running perfertly because they have a 100% guarantee that if they dont fix it you don't pay. My compter is so fast now! its faster then it was when it was new! Theses guys rock, and I text messaged them the other day about a problem i was having with adobe photoshop and the guy logged in and showed me a bunch of tricks that i would have never thought of.. Happy camper!
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I was using a higrade yeah i know) with vista home basic, running smoothly until i did wndows updates, rebooted and it would not load windows, kept telling me to insert windows disc and repair, i restored back to facotry settings and turned updates off, and it was working fine, until my gf updated, then same thing happend again, just about to restore once again, and leave those nasty updates off

microsoft has a lot of answernig to do, as i seems like its not just me who have lost counteless hours of work due to this dodgy update

I have had to reload windows vista 3 time because up to may 30th 2009 my system would slow down
then turn off when i try to run a program. When i pushed the on button on my system it would not turn on
only after a few attempts. after 4 days it started again and again and when i reloaded Vista on June 4th 2009
and finished all the updates it happened the next day June 5th i'm am so fricken pissed off because i took my
system to best buy on June 2nd and they found no problems.

no this is getting out of hand i've wasted so much money of damned Microsoft equipment.

"Never ever say updating can corrupt your computer that thing don't make a common sense, the truth is you might have been downloaded infected files or thing that a window don't like, the solution is to put a new operating sysem."

kiss my butt i'm not wasting more money on a problem that started 7 days ago and i'm telling you dammit!
its the update that was put on my computer.

because this never happened since i've had my computer!!!!!!!
if those con artist at Microsoft can get a product or update that won't screw my system then i will consider using them.




but now like my fiancee i'm a mac user. because this bullshit is getting too damn old.

Same thing happened to every PC at work when people accepted the standard Windows XP Security Update.
We resolved the problem as follows:

1) We started up each PC in Safe Mode (Press F8 during boot up)
2) Went to Control Panel, then Add Remove Programs
3) Checked the box that said Show Updates
4) Found the four updates with today's date, and removed each one. We were careful to check the little box (do not reboot now) and then waited to reboot to the very end when all had been removed.

After that, each PC was fine. We also made sure to go to Windows Update settings and picked NEVER to show us these files again.