Recent Windows patches may cause black screen, free fix available (updated)

Nice one Microsoft! Patches are meant to fix a problem not create new ones! Luckily this hasn't affected my machine.....yet! Thanks for the Info!

Why cant Microsoft avoid these kind of things ? Why not take time to build things ?

Microsoft just can't stop making screwups. Incoming Mac commercial.

Holy Cow! I had these problem starting Nov. 16!. I had to google for some info and It takes me to those Keyboard and Mouse Lockup after the XP/Sp3 loading Screen and Everytime I restart.

Never thought it would be MS's fault, screw that. The Fix is useful.. im able to restart now without that annoying black screen(which I found out that removing the cord of the PSU resets the power and moves along)

Im not completly sure, if its the case im figthing here.. But on my XP-Pro computer(got 4 computers running here, with XP, VISTA and W7) .. i was tryin to restart the system after som soft cleaning and update(actualy the XP was getting a lot of updates, that forced the restart)

When it was starting up, running the basic BIOS and stuf, it suddenly stop the startup ...now it could not find my SATA-HDD, where my OS was located ..and then it goes nowhere from this point. I tryid some restart(actually a lot), but it stop exacly same moment ..when it have to load/read the pre-installed SATA-controller/drivers*
*Back in time, when i bougth the motherboard, it could not find SATA-drives(and never could), so i had to pre-install a SATA-controller/driver via floppydisk, before it could find and install XP-Pro on the SATA-HDD.

Now im wondering.. if this new update, the reason to my problem?(never had this kind of problem before!)

Sry for my bad gramma/spelling - im Danish

PrevX is bringing the fix out because it affects systems using their products. But they're not doing it to be the hero, they're just trying to fix the stuff that MS screwed up with the update. From what I can gather on the bits and pieces available, the update in question changes a bunch of security settings internally, overriding and bypassing some of the more in-depth and extensive 3rd party security products out there. That bypassing then causes serious errors in the protocols of the security products. Microsoft is being very quiet about this, even to the point of virtually ignoring it at times, mostly because they don't want to admit their part in the issue: sure they tested it, but they dropped this big security patch before getting details to the 3rd party companies in a timely manner to allow them to patch their products adequately PRIOR to the update, to avoid these issues. It's really kind of a typical MS blunder, happens alot, but this time it happens to have a dramatic impact, rather than more minor ones that can be easily remedied with a reinstall of a single software package. When you screw something up so completely that people are reinstalling their OS, you should probably rethink your methods a little bit.

Wow at least Prevx made a fix for Microsoft's error

I've patched over 100 machines (XP, Vista, 7, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2) with no problems at all. I don't know of anyone else who has discovered the problem and I'm not saying that it does not exist though I tend to agree with the first comment in the thread.

Just when I thought MS had gotten their act together with Win7, they go and goof it up. I'm extremely impressed by how well Win7 has worked so far, and was almost convinced that they'd released an operating system that works well without 6 months and 2 service packs of work.

Is it just me or does anyone ask how you install this software if you cant see your own desktop?

Big surprise, that Microsoft's patches are full of errors. I can't understand how their OS continue to be the most selling one. All Windows operating systems are being sold without even half the testing there should be. How could anyone sell that kind of products!? It's like: "Are you ready with the new Windows guys? - NO, it needs like 3 years of testing first! - 3 years!? F**k that. We are releasing it in a month, and when people find the errors we might begin to fix them. By the way start the new OS, with the even prettier buttons"

Haven't had this problem myself and I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem either. Must not be too common of a problem.

The problem is with Prevx software. It is funny how they are blaming Microsoft. Reason its not a common problem is no one uses that crappy Prevx software. tried it one and it didn't help out at all.

The Mac Ads were right.

WORKED GREAT!

My video card was disabled for like 1 month until I found this , it works again!

I was just about to say the same thing but with the vast amount of different configurations out there... i guess it can get difficult sometimes.

I guess it's time for microsoft to include aero-themed BSODs, c'mon those error screens look like they were taken from 3.11, we want things to be pretty and translucent! (sarcasm).

So, there was some undiscovered bug on a new os, now thats quite uncommon right?

Prevx is now agreeing with Microsoft and saying that the patches are *not* to blame.

All software has bugs. Some are more prevalent than others. It is quite impressive that through MS's open beta for W7, there were never any huge gamebreaker bugs. Compared to a couple of Snow Leopard's bugs, this is nothing and it only took MS a day to respond. It took Apple quite a while to even admit to the guest account bug.

I thought this had a funny smell.... A bit like cow pats, but with a more masculine scent1
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