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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
Did anybody else have problems with both these updates? Aug update had I
believe 10. After insalling them, my desktop screen was changed & my colors were changed. All of these have now been hidden cause I do not intend to fix all my sounds and colors and desktop screen. Then along came Sept updates and then my sounds were gone. They too have been hidden and auto updates has been changed by me not to run automatically anymore. I'll install what I want. As far as I know, there was never any warning that all my preferences were about to be changed. It would be nice to be warned ahead of time that changes will be made without my approval. Anybody else have problems with them ?? |
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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
From: "Groundhog Gus"
Did anybody else have problems with both these updates? Aug update had I believe 10. After insalling them, my desktop screen was changed & my colors were changed. All of these have now been hidden cause I do not intend to fix all my sounds and colors and desktop screen. Then along came Sept updates and then my sounds were gone. They too have been hidden and auto updates has been changed by me not to run automatically anymore. I'll install what I want. As far as I know, there was never any warning that all my preferences were about to be changed. It would be nice to be warned ahead of time that changes will be made without my approval. Anybody else have problems with them ?? If you had bothered to have read the last news group post then you would already have your answer. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Groundhog Gus" Did anybody else have problems with both these updates? Aug update had I believe 10. After insalling them, my desktop screen was changed & my colors were changed. All of these have now been hidden cause I do not intend to fix all my sounds and colors and desktop screen. Then along came Sept updates and then my sounds were gone. They too have been hidden and auto updates has been changed by me not to run automatically anymore. I'll install what I want. As far as I know, there was never any warning that all my preferences were about to be changed. It would be nice to be warned ahead of time that changes will be made without my approval. Anybody else have problems with them ?? If you had bothered to have read the last news group post then you would already have your answer. This looks like a significantly different problem. |
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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
Groundhog Gus wrote:
Did anybody else have problems with both these updates? Aug update had I believe 10. After insalling them, my desktop screen was changed & my colors were changed. All of these have now been hidden cause I do not intend to fix all my sounds and colors and desktop screen. Then along came Sept updates and then my sounds were gone. They too have been hidden and auto updates has been changed by me not to run automatically anymore. I'll install what I want. As far as I know, there was never any warning that all my preferences were about to be changed. It would be nice to be warned ahead of time that changes will be made without my approval. Anybody else have problems with them ?? I agree with Bob F ("significantly different problem"). ******* Copies of the registry are stored in System Restore. Perhaps using a restore point will back out the damage. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...restore-guide/ Before doing anything, you'd want to do a complete backup of the system, so no "experiment" can make things worse. Then restore from your backup, if you're unhappy with the progress achieved. Any time I'm doing something dangerous, I do a backup first. I have a 2TB and 3TB drive for storing backups of my OSes. Since System Restore can be disabled, there might not be any restore points, in which case that option is lost to you. During malware cleanup, restore points would normally get trashed, to prevent malware staged in there from coming back The lost settings could be related to a damaged profile, but I don't know anything about that. And System Restore is the only trick up my sleeve. The problem might even be related to some recent changes you made in Accounts. (I.e. You're no longer "you" any more.) If the computer has buried malware, sometimes a Windows Update conflicts with that, and trouble ensues. (Machines infected with TDSS were bricked, when Microsoft updated atapi.sys in one of their updates.) Do an occasional scan of the system, to look for that. If you're thinking "Microsoft trashed my settings and colors on purpose", no, that's not a common symptom. What you're seeing is a side effect of something else, unexpected. Microsoft has no way of predicting what infected systems will do, when updates are received. I'm not saying the problem is malware, but when a problem is not shared with a lot of other users, you have to look further than obviously botched updates. The updates that kept installing themselves, hundred of people posted about those. And that's a clue Microsoft screwed up, in that many users seem the same symptoms. In this case, losing your settings, sounds like more of a problem with your machine and system state, just before the Windows Updates were installed. Paul |
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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
Paul wrote in :
Groundhog Gus wrote: Did anybody else have problems with both these updates? Aug update had I believe 10. After insalling them, my desktop screen was changed & my colors were changed. All of these have now been hidden cause I do not intend to fix all my sounds and colors and desktop screen. Then along came Sept updates and then my sounds were gone. They too have been hidden and auto updates has been changed by me not to run automatically anymore. I'll install what I want. As far as I know, there was never any warning that all my preferences were about to be changed. It would be nice to be warned ahead of time that changes will be made without my approval. Anybody else have problems with them ?? I agree with Bob F ("significantly different problem"). ******* Copies of the registry are stored in System Restore. Perhaps using a restore point will back out the damage. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...ystem-restore- guide/ Before doing anything, you'd want to do a complete backup of the system, so no "experiment" can make things worse. Then restore from your backup, if you're unhappy with the progress achieved. Any time I'm doing something dangerous, I do a backup first. I have a 2TB and 3TB drive for storing backups of my OSes. Since System Restore can be disabled, there might not be any restore points, in which case that option is lost to you. During malware cleanup, restore points would normally get trashed, to prevent malware staged in there from coming back The lost settings could be related to a damaged profile, but I don't know anything about that. And System Restore is the only trick up my sleeve. The problem might even be related to some recent changes you made in Accounts. (I.e. You're no longer "you" any more.) If the computer has buried malware, sometimes a Windows Update conflicts with that, and trouble ensues. (Machines infected with TDSS were bricked, when Microsoft updated atapi.sys in one of their updates.) Do an occasional scan of the system, to look for that. If you're thinking "Microsoft trashed my settings and colors on purpose", no, that's not a common symptom. What you're seeing is a side effect of something else, unexpected. Microsoft has no way of predicting what infected systems will do, when updates are received. I'm not saying the problem is malware, but when a problem is not shared with a lot of other users, you have to look further than obviously botched updates. The updates that kept installing themselves, hundred of people posted about those. And that's a clue Microsoft screwed up, in that many users seem the same symptoms. In this case, losing your settings, sounds like more of a problem with your machine and system state, just before the Windows Updates were installed. Paul 1st, I have hod no problems with updates trying to install themselves again. That was somebody else's probem not mine. I have Bitdefender and it finds no malware. And to get rid of the updates I referred to, they are now hidden. I just did a system restore before the updates were installed and everything is running normally. I just wondered if anybody else had their settings changed with whese updates. I now have auto updates blocked and I will look at them myself and select the ones I want. Since nobody else has had the problem, it must be me and sometime when I get the chance, I look into it further. Thanks for your reply. |
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Auto updates for Aug & Sept
From: "Groundhog Gus"
1st, I have hod no problems with updates trying to install themselves again. Please accept my apology for failing to properly and fully read your post. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |