Odd, after MS patch

[ultra violent]

I installed, what I guess is the large MS update the other week. Now when I log on, the PC seems to hang after accepting the password. Now if you CTRL-ALT-BRK, it un-hangs and brings up the task manager and returns you to the desktop. So, problem sort of solved, but this can't be the correct behaviour. Any idea?

[aldi]

You should be able to uninstall the patch via add/remove programs in control pannel - unless it's the WGA patch thats causing the problem. It is forboden to uninstall that one.

[GreenV8S]

aldi said:

It is forboden to uninstall that one.

... although it seems that it is trivially easy to uninstall it manually, if you want to.

[neil_cardiff]

GreenV8S said:

aldi said:

It is forboden to uninstall that one.

... although it seems that it is trivially easy to uninstall it manually, if you want to.

Remove a few files, and a registry hack and job done

[dogwatch]

A few weeks back I had a patch which quite clearly wasn't going to complete the installation. I shut down anyway to all sorts of nonsense about illegal copies of XP. Ignored it and 8 patches installed with no problems a couple of days ago.

[bigdods]

I had this recently - latest Microsoft update seems to have fixed it