Installation of this month's updates. "Bullwinkle" <moose[ at ]moose.com> 11.07.2007 23:08:24 I received notification of update availability last night from Msoft. I have never had a problem until last night. I downloaded and ran the updates and after rebooting my machine I had a weird situation. My mouse would move ok but would not click on anything. In rebooting again the same thing happened. To cure the problem I reinstalled an Acronis backup taking it back a day or two. Now I'm afraid to run the updates again. Has anyone had a similar problem this week? I'm running Windows XP Sp2 with all updates installed except this weeks. Regards,

Re: Installation of this month's updates. "peter" <peter[ at ]nowhere.net> 11.07.2007 23:57:37 Every one of us receives different updates based upon how our individual machines are setup ,wether or not you have the download application set to automatic ,wether you go to the update site and pick and choose what to download...etc etc. So without knowing what you downloaded we cannot help you...we can only suggest that you do not download wiilynilly but actually go to the site and download all of the XP iimportant stuff but NOT the hardware drivers that are not for MS hardware...those you should get directly from the manufacturers website.............what make is your mouse?? peter "Bullwinkle" <moose[ at ]moose.com> wrote in message news:eKezYBBxHHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I received notification of update availability last night from Msoft. I >have never had a problem until last night. > > I downloaded and ran the updates and after rebooting my machine I had a > weird situation. > > My mouse would move ok but would not click on anything. In rebooting again > the same thing happened. > > To cure the problem I reinstalled an Acronis backup taking it back a day > or two. Now I'm afraid to run the updates again. > > Has anyone had a similar problem this week? > > I'm running Windows XP Sp2 with all updates installed except this weeks. > > Regards, > >

Re: Installation of this month's updates. "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM][ at ]hotmail.com> 12.07.2007 01:45:55 This month my XP updates wokred normally. However, a few times over the past 10 years or so I have installed Microsoft updates only to have my PC act strangely, under both 98 and XP. Like you I have learned that having a backup image is a good way to fix things. (I also use Acronis True Image, and like it.) I suggest that you download and install one update at a time, reboot, confirm that the PC works OK, then download another, etc. Keep notes on which ones you install (KBxxxxxxx). It may happen that this time they will all install correctly, without causing problems. That would suggest that you simply had a bad download. Or, one specific update may cause the problem again. If so, restore from the image and download everything except that one. "Bullwinkle" <moose[ at ]moose.com> wrote in message news:eKezYBBxHHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I received notification of update availability last night from Msoft. I >have never had a problem until last night. > > I downloaded and ran the updates and after rebooting my machine I had a > weird situation. > > My mouse would move ok but would not click on anything. In rebooting again > the same thing happened. > > To cure the problem I reinstalled an Acronis backup taking it back a day > or two. Now I'm afraid to run the updates again. > > Has anyone had a similar problem this week? > > I'm running Windows XP Sp2 with all updates installed except this weeks. > > Regards, > >

Re: Installation of this month's updates. "Bullwinkle" <moose[ at ]moose.com> 13.07.2007 05:03:32 "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM][ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23yFtiZCxHHA.424[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > This month my XP updates wokred normally. > > However, a few times over the past 10 years or so I have installed > Microsoft updates only to have my PC act strangely, under both 98 and XP. > > Like you I have learned that having a backup image is a good way to fix > things. (I also use Acronis True Image, and like it.) > > I suggest that you download and install one update at a time, reboot, > confirm that the PC works OK, then download another, etc. Keep notes on > which ones you install (KBxxxxxxx). > > It may happen that this time they will all install correctly, without > causing problems. That would suggest that you simply had a bad download. > > Or, one specific update may cause the problem again. If so, restore from > the image and download everything except that one. > > > > "Bullwinkle" <moose[ at ]moose.com> wrote in message > news:eKezYBBxHHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I received notification of update availability last night from Msoft. I >>have never had a problem until last night. >> >> I downloaded and ran the updates and after rebooting my machine I had a >> weird situation. >> >> My mouse would move ok but would not click on anything. In rebooting >> again the same thing happened. >> >> To cure the problem I reinstalled an Acronis backup taking it back a day >> or two. Now I'm afraid to run the updates again. >> >> Has anyone had a similar problem this week? >> >> I'm running Windows XP Sp2 with all updates installed except this weeks. >> >> Regards, >> Thanks, That's good advice and I'm going to try this tomorrow. (It's 1 am here and I'm getting tired. (hi hi). I've been reading today on other newsgroups that many are having problems with the .net updates. I'm going to read more and see what I can learn. Again thanks to all. Regards, > >