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Micro Soft update caused issues....

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Yesterday after an automatic update of windows XP, I can no longer access my local providers web page that I use as my home page. The update made MSN myhomepage, and I don't like this one bit. I don't want them onmy computor any more than nessary. They only way I made it here was to open a link to the web from my e mail acount. If I try to open my web browser, the CPU goes into over drive and the system locks up...

Any one know what is going on? I just want my home page back, and the MSN bull shit gone. Why does it over load my CPU when I try and access my network providers homepage?

More importantly how can Micorsoft legally change your computor settings to their bennifit, without permission? This kind of thing really pisses me off. The company who provides, is now wanting a monoploy on all its software? I guess this is America today....

Regards, Kirk
 
I feel your pain. My pc did its auto update and then immediately contracted a virus. Our office IT is cleaning it now.
 
Not trying to rub salt in the wound. I would never do that. :biggrin: Seriously.

It was crap like this this that put me over the top with Microsoft Windows. I was running a Windows XP as an HTC. (Home Theater Computer) using the Windows Media Center as my DVR with the free on line guide that MicroSoft furnishes. Three tuners, 1 GB of HD space. Great setup worked slicker than snot on a door knob until one day MS upgraded me and I lost all Media Center functionality. MS blamed Dell, Dell blamed MS. I tried to restore, I tried everything a google said to do. Nada, zip. Finally took the machine to a computer shop and spent plenty of $$ to get it back working, but another upgrade later, same thing. That's when I threw in the towel and went with OS/X.

I am NO Apple fan boy, but crap like that gets the nards in a twist for me.
 
Are you running OS/X on 386 type hardware? If so tell me more about how it works for you. Are you able to get Media center and other windows based programs to run on OS/X?

I upgraded last night with no issues. I run the firefox browser and the home page stayed the same but it took forever for the browser to get started up. There was a adobe flash update that was trying to run at the same time and it could not work since a browser was open / or trying to open, so I was hosed up for quite a while. After I stopped the flash update all was okay and my home page was still in place.
 
I had the same thing happen. Stopped the other updates from running, and the update loaded. A huge update. Took just short of 20 minutes.

I run 7.
 
Doc said:
Are you running OS/X on 386 type hardware? If so tell me more about how it works for you. Are you able to get Media center and other windows based programs to run on OS/X?
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I am running OS/X on the imac. I bailed on the Media Center concept as it became too expensive at that point to upgrade to Vista at that time to get the HD that I wanted. My XP Media Center was SD only. HTC is an expensive proposition. One needs the real fancy HD digital tuner cards running the M series cable cards from Comcast with good HDMI outputs.

Yes I can use windows on my imac. All I would need is a clean copy of a Windows operating system as the imac has the intel processor but what's the point? I can't utilize the tuner cards with the imac and then I would need anti virus software for the windows side of things which is even more money.

Not sure how Apple TV works as I am a fan boy of Windows Media Center. Real nice interface with a great free guide.

However, I may revisit this in the future if I can find a nice used PC setup with a decent tuner card already installed by someone at a good price. Windows 7 would be preferable for this with a quad core of course.
 
I did the update and haven't had any problems until this morning with one site. The Highroad.org wouldn't load but did after I did the upgrade. So it is probably something on the site and not the upgrade. Even my MS Streets & Trips loads fine which is often requires me to turn off stuff with msconfig.exe as some things simply aren't compatible with it.
 
I always have mine set to notify me and I choose the updates. Did them all with no problem. Then updated flashplayer and for a change it did it without a hassle. Have not done the emergency IE update from yesterday yet. I like to wait and see how many have trouble first.:whistling:
 
Well I figured it out. Pretty simple fix, but I botched the web address the first time....

Just wish that when they do an update that they don't change my settings while they are in there. Seems to me that they have no right, but if you read the users agreement I am quite sure you would find that they do. In fact I am quite sure if you read the agreement, that you would find you have few rights to anything on your computer. Take Facebook for instance. You own nothing you put there, they own it all, even if you try to delete, they retain is my understanding.

Later, Kirk
 
The up date messed with my video card I went back to the on board one and went to load drivers and cd says it cant find the card but in the resources it is still listed as using memory????

Ill be back at it tonight :sad:
 
I have had the same issues after the plethora of useless Microsoft Updates. Viruses, reloading drivers, reformatting settings, reloading software... Grrr.

I am currently on my last PC style Microsoft computer. My next will be an Apple. I swore I would never to that, but I am sick to death of the MS-Bull$hit.
 
Having issues all the sudden with Flash Player running on Windows Vista.
Deleted it from my programs, then couldn't hear videos, reinstalled, but now getting pop ups saying it's not a plug in, yet I can play the videos just fine.
Thinking I am heading toward a Windows 7 update soon, which I hear can be a bitch to do.
 
I had zero problems with the MS upgrade. Everything was transparent, and all of my programs worked flawlessly after the upgrade. I did notice an increase in upload & download speeds, but other than that, nothing else seems different.

Oh...wait. My bad. I was talking about my OS X upgrade to 10.7.4. Sorry...:whistling:
 
I had issues with one file failing to install. After trying again with the same results I gave up. Two days later tried it again and it installed just fine.
 
Nothing wrong with XP. My old one downstairs is an old win98 machine updated to XP and still runs fine.
 
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