I sat down at the computer last night thinking I would print my aunt's tax return and get it mailed today. I should have known better. Nothing is simple when it comes to a computer.
I opened up Turbo Tax and set her return to print. Then I went to do some grilling of burgers outside. When I came back the returns had printed with gobbledygook and the computer had shut down and rebooted. I signed on and it proceeded to the dreaded blue screen of death, then another reboot and another BSOD. This went on about a half-dozen more times until I finally booted it up in safe mode and started saving what I could of my data. When I finished that I started looking for the problem. I first suspected a hardware problem on my less than two months old Dell. Until I decided to see if my Windows Vista updates were up to date. And since I have them set to update automatically, they were. And I noticed the last update had happened just after I had signed on my computer to print the tax return. Hmmm--very interesting.
I kept working, running Ad Aware and checking everything I could. I found nothing but I did get more and more suspicious of that Windows update. Finally I decided to a do a safe mode boot and a systems restore to the day before. Initially it keep giving me the BSOD but I finally turned it off for awhile and went back an hour or so later. It seemed to boot normally and I was able to do about an hour's work without it rebooting. I'm hoping it will hold that way tonight.
So today I started googling "Windows Vista Keeps Rebooting" and here's what I found. That KB937287 number is the same update that installed on my computer yesterday. Holy @#&^%$ ! Can't Microsoft quit counting their billions long enough to keep from screwing up their customer's computers? Unbelievable. And note the article said this update was pulled in February. So why did I get it yesterday? Duh. This is what we get with a Microsoft near monopoly on operating systems. I'm totally fed up with these SOBs (there goes the cuss-o-meter) and if my computer starts automatically rebooting again tonight I'm not responsible for my behavior.
Yes, I know already. I should have bought an Apple. Somebody just shoot me. Please.
April 7, 2008 in
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