Windows Update - nearly crashed me! Now What!

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That is why I hate MS and all these updates. My pc which uses XP is currently down because I could not get it to come back up even by going to the restore button. It crashed when I tried to update to the Service Pack 3. You can find out what programs you have by looking at the directory or by going to the add or remove section. I have read several reports of people's computers crashing with pack 3 but not 2.

Could be some conflict. If it's a Service Pack Update, your system will become slower if your PC has not enough RAM or slow CPU speed. It happens whenever SP1 is updated to SP2; SP2 to SP3. Some hardware doesn't support SP3. So if you've updated from SP2 to SP3 & crashed, it's because of hardware as I read somewhere someone's AMD system couldn't be updated from SP2 to SP3. Same problem, it updated fine but crashed like yours

iF UR OS MAY ORGINAL BUT DONT UPDATE WINXP.. IT WILL HAVE OTHER AFTER EFFECTS. I UPDATES IT ONCE AND I KNOW THAT MY COMPUTER HAS SLOW DOWN. UPDATE IS USED FOR SOME HARD USERS PLAYING WITH MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARES ETC. WIN XP UPDATE COMES WITH NETFRAME2.0 OR LATER, WHICH WE LIGHT USER, DONT WANT IT. U CAN UPDATE UR SERVICE PACK BY GOING TO MICROSFT WEBPAGE AND DOWNLOAD SERVICE PACK 3 OF WINXP. IT WILL CONTAIN NEWER TWEAKS OF WINXP. IF U GOT ORIGINAL OS DONT TRY THAT TOO. IF U WANT TO DO THEN BACK UP THE XP AND INSTAL SERVICE PACK 3. AND ONE THING RESTORE POINT IS SOFTWARE WHICH WILL BACKUP UR DATA DAILY OR IN SOME SPECIFIED RESTORE POINTS. SO THAT IF UPDATE AND RESTORE TO PREVIOUS DAY THE UPDATES WIL PERISH.

That's interesting. How often do you go to the Microsoft website to perform updates? I check out the microsoft update site once a week on a Friday so that I'm always keeping my system up to date. Just incase you don't know, we now have Service pack 3. Have you not updated to this yet? I would advise doing so. There are problems with service pack 2 now which is why service pack 3 came out. There's far better security on service pack 3. When you say you turned off your computer, do you mean you just turned it off without shutting the computer down properly? When ever you get updates, you are generally asked to restart your computer in order to confirm the configuration settings. Did you restart? There are other utility tools that you can use on your computer to make it perform better and I don't know if you know about these or not. The fact that your programs are running slow, this could be a whole number of things. Do you have anti-virus software on your computer? How much memory do you have? 256MB? 512MB? 1GB? If you have several programs open at the same time and you don't have much memory then it's likely that all your system resources are being used i.e. too much memory is being taken by having so many programs open. Does your computer freeze? These are all valid questions. If you need any help let me know, I can go through some maintenance details with you. Good luck, Andrew

Did you try to load "Last known good configuration"? That allow you to ignore all the changes you did until the your system get crashed. Press F8 and then select the said option

Too late, my Windows Vista has already crashed. No kidding. I think that my computer wanted to do an update, and the next thing I knew, when I was trying to turn on my ususal computer tonight, it crashed. I hate DELL and I HATE VISTA! By the way, there are no more updates for XP, at least, that is what I was told.

I experienced that too but I just reformat it and yeah my pc is fine now.There are times that I hate to update because i don't know,It just make my pc slow But i really don't have any Idea because I'm not that really a computer wizard.:-0 GOd bless and have a nice day.:-0

Did your computer shut down directly without saying "Do not turn off. It will turn off automatically. Installing updates xx of xx." Something like that? Allow it to finished the updates or there are tendencies your OS might crashed depending on what updates it is installing. Also be aware of those things prompting automatically and ask you to install it. it contains Spyware, Malware and other forms of infection for your pc. To be sure of your updates, go to microsoft website and download the update to see for yourself it is the right one.