[Web4lib] Windows Update Service Crashing Some PCs

[James M. Gilbert]

Andrew,

Related in KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089/en-us

The patch that might fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891/



James M. Gilbert
Systems Librarian
Whitehall Township Public Library
3700 Mechanicsville Road
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-4339

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Mutch
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:45 PM
To: garyo
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Windows Update Service Crashing Some PCs

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-avoid
> s-errors.html
>
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