Windows Update to Ancient Bug Causing Blue Screen of Death

As default, I always leave automatic updates switched off. I have seen way too many problems occur because of a security fix.

XP has always been a train wreck of an OS. Vista has been 100% reliable for me, though.

Once again, Microsoft has to scare the living crap out of me and cause me to run to my boyfriend who is a computer wiz. Why can't they just do something right instead of screwing up everything and then making a hundred different patches to fix it?

Is it a coincidence that AOL just began trying to get users to down load a Security Update to supposedly fix a flaw before announcing the Windows Blue Screen Of Death ?

Are they trying to torture us ? I do not want to load the AOL patch now that it announced this big problem at the same time!

Anyone know of a way to revive my Gateway Laptop ?

I'm very happy with XP and never had a problem with it . Runs great !

Easy fix, get a Mac!

My desktop has been down since the update this last week due to this problem....and I was not sent the installation disk with my pc from dell. Sooo, microsoft messed it up, and dell won't even respond to me since the warranty is up.....so I finally found a disk elsewhere on the web to purchase (since everyone I know with a dell had not been sent the xp cd either)...and am sol until it arrives. I use that computer for work and it is out of commission for likely another week---I had work data and baby pictures on it that I was not about to zap with a system restore to factory settings. It has been beyond frustrating....not to mention funny when people try to tell me to go into safe mode or ctrl-alt-delete, lol.....since all the computer does is go to a blue screen, lol.

THIS explains my latest crash... TY Microsoft! There was no endless reboot... I had to eventually reformat my CPU lossing about 100 hours of work on my brand new hard drive. I hadn't backed up due to the fact my hard drive had nothing on it except for the one project. Now some of my programs will not properly load after years of using them. sighhhhhh

Jeff Welsh said @ 8:10 am ....get a Mac to fix XP woes.

I say, yes do, but ONLY if you have to draw pictures for a living. Then yes, get a Mac because you don't need math, you don't need to interact & communicate with the REAL business world. Then, yes, get a Mac and be a square peg in a round hole world. Be the one that makes doing business with you hard to conduct. I bet Jeff Welsh was a hard kid to raise. I bet he rebelled a bunch. Be honest now Jeff,,,you did,,, didn't you. I know the type. Did you ever have purple hair?

"Microsoft strongly urges users to turn on automatic updates, but, if the company doesn't thoroughly test patches before rolling them out, users may switch off that option, ironically enough, out of fear for their PCs." Yeah--no kidding! When we let them infest our computer with more of their garbage, it got worse than the lemon it already was (thanks to their idiot Vista "virus") So we turned OFF the automatic updates, and won't allow any of them onto our computer. Microsoft screwed us royal on this piece of crap--all because of Vista. And now they want us to trust them again? We paid a reputable repairman to 'fix' it as best he could (which means it's a two year old computer that can only visit limited sites (as long as there's no video) and can (barely) send email)...but at least it COULD do that much until we allowed Microsoft to embed more of their crap onto it through their automatic updates. After that, we needed to pay for another trip to the repair shop, and now can't ever turn it off for fear of it not coming back again. We paid $1,100.00 for a custom made Dell (first mistake was trusting Dell) and it never worked from the day we bought it because of Vista. Over the next year, we paid for three different repairs to get it to barely work, and foolishly allowed the auto-updates, which screwed us even more because they don't work with Vista, and they only made it worse--including the Blue Screen of Death. Thanks for NOTHING, Microsoft! You lying whore rip offs screwed us into the ground with your moronic Vista garbage...I hope you literally choke on the money you stole from us. And believe me--I'm warning as many people as humanely possible to NEVER trust Microsoft, their bogus automatic updates, or anything related to a so called 'fix', because once you lie to me (and STEAL from me) you're never get a kind word out of my mouth in your direction again. I hope the entire company goes belly up, and a reputable, capable company takes their place, because Microsoft owes the public a LOT of money for all the grief they've caused us...and you know they won't have to reimburse us, because they're too rich to have to pay for their own hideous mistakes.

I HAVE A SHONUFF WAY TO BEAT ALL THOSE MICROSOFT PROBLEMS. GET A MAC, CASE CLOSED... LOL

EXACTLY WHY I SET MYSELF FREE FROM WINDOWS AND BOUGHT AN APPLE!