[Web4lib] Windows Update Service Crashing Some PCs

[Andrew Mutch]

We've seen problems with Windows Update on XP and it's apparently a fairly
well-known issue with XP (although it doesn't affect all XP computers):

http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/04/28/update-on.aspx

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

>         Along with being on the web team at the library I have been
> managing PCs and printers both Public and staff. In our library on the
> staff PC we have kept Windows Automatic Updates and for years it was
> great, one less thing I had to do manually.
>        We have Used a VB script to do windows updates on all our public
> PCs because the Hard drive protection needed to be turned off. I never
> got around to automating it so I did it the one day a week we close at 9
> pm.
>        Just a couple months after the hideous Windows Vista came out
> Windows Automatic Updates went crazy on XP. So I adapted our Public Win
> Update script to the requirements of our staff and added it to a
> shutdown maintenance script. Here are the Gory details.
> http://pcsinpublic.blogspot.com/2007/05/scripting-windows-update-avoids-errors.html
>
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