Topic: Windows 7 customers hit by service pack 1 install 'fatal error' flaws

[Clive]

Microsoft remains clueless about cause.

THE REGISTER

[Simon]

I'm glad I'm still on XP. 

[Clive]

Mrs Clive's laptop survived it.   

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

I'm avoiding it for a while.

[Rodders]

Both of my W7 (32-bit, Home Premium) boxes appear to have survived the SP1 installation unscathed.  Mind you, knowing Microsoft's record for blithely hosing its users' machines, I did trial it on the least valuable box first.  I'm wondering whether the glitch only occurs with certain flavours of W7.   

[Simon]

I'm sticking firmly with XP until it dies, kicking and screaming...

[TR]

Luddite 

[Simon]

[Rik]

But one with a working computer, Terry. 

[Simon]

[Den]

But one with a working computer, Terry. 

all be it old, out of date, unsecure and not able to run the latest programs. 

I installed the update on both of mine with no problems. 

[Rodders]

Dimly believing that the useless shower of incompetent cretins at Microsoft would have fixed this well-documented problem long before now, I decided to let Windows Updates loose on my newly-acquired Win7 (Ultimate) x64 Dell laptop, today.  Guess what?  It got hosed - big time.  Exactly the same error that users have been reporting since SP1 was first released.

My one wish in life now is to vivisect that wretch Gates and any of his employees stupid enough to get in the way.

[Rik]

Do you need any help, Rod?

[Clive]

That's disgraceful!  I've not yet downloaded it to my laptop so I will continue to hold off.  There is a Microsoft article about it HERE but it's a bit late after the event.  Can you do a system restore Rod?