Latest XP updates?

**Lemur** · 04-05-2007, 04:21

Interesting, so it was a driver update. Do you normally let Msoft do those for you? I'm kind of paranoid, so I always go to the manufacturer's site and grab drivers from the source. Looks as though my excessive caution wasn't.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 04-05-2007, 04:50

Hey I got the same message. All fixed now because of you guys. My thanks

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**The Scourge** · 04-05-2007, 08:26

Had it too ,thanks for the link .
Was a little worried .
My Daughter's on her easter break ,and my first thought was ,what's she been downloading

**Rilder** · 04-05-2007, 12:45

Originally Posted by The Scourge

Had it too ,thanks for the link .
Was a little worried .
My Daughter's on her easter break ,and my first thought was ,what's she been downloading

She'll never tell you.

Edit my ma's computer just had this, good thing I read this topic O.o

**drone** · 04-05-2007, 16:10

Is this the .ANI exploit update? I had heard that the fix caused some problems, I'm holding off until they get a better patch.

**Xiahou** · 04-05-2007, 23:13

Anyone ever have Automatic updates go bad and cause svchost.exe crashes?

I'd read some about it before, but never experienced it until yesterday. My company-issued laptop is the only PC I have with auto updates enabled and yesterday it started getting errors about svchost.exe crashing. My knee-jerk reaction was, 'uh-oh, virus', especially since I had just got back from a road-trip (damn hotel wireless APs). But, I updated my AV, did a full scan and did a Trend Housecall full scan- all came up empty. After some googling, I just turned off auto updates and restarted- no more errors.

I later found and applied a MS hotfix I found in their knowledgebase that sounded like it may fix the issue, but I decided to leave auto updates off anyhow.

**Rilder** · 04-05-2007, 23:46

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Anyone ever have Automatic updates go bad and cause svchost.exe crashes?

I'd read some about it before, but never experienced it until yesterday. My company-issued laptop is the only PC I have with auto updates enabled and yesterday it started getting errors about svchost.exe crashing. My knee-jerk reaction was, 'uh-oh, virus', especially since I had just got back from a road-trip (damn hotel wireless APs). But, I updated my AV, did a full scan and did a Trend Housecall full scan- all came up empty. After some googling, I just turned off auto updates and restarted- no more errors.

I later found and applied a MS hotfix I found in their knowledgebase that sounded like it may fix the issue, but I decided to leave auto updates off anyhow.

Hmm thats weird I've never had any problems.

**Husar** · 04-05-2007, 10:59

Originally Posted by Lemur

Interesting, so it was a driver update. Do you normally let Msoft do those for you? I'm kind of paranoid, so I always go to the manufacturer's site and grab drivers from the source. Looks as though my excessive caution wasn't.

It actually wasn't, it was just that the driver and one of the dlls M$ apparently changed wanted to use the same memory and one just kicked the other out, I usually never upgrade sound drivers unless I come across some problem. And the last time Windows upgraded my joystick driver, the new driver would always crash in a very bad way whenever I attempted to calibrate.

So, no I don't let it upgrade my drivers, I usually get them from the manufacturer as well, I don't even trust most third party sites like treiberdownloads.de or so except if I'm very desperate.