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Just powered up the PC, and was dismayed to see it running slower than a ZX81 without a ram pack. I also had a flicker every few seconds on the screen. After the usual checks, there wasn`t anything suspiscious running in the background. I have installed Ubuntu in a partition but that shouldn`t affect windows.

Going old school, I restored my PC to the time I switched it on. Turns out windows update installed an update on startup which killed my system. I`m all good now, but Windows is telling me there`s an update for MSSE. I`m very loathe to install it, in case that`s the bastard that killed it. Suffice to say, I`ve stopped my system automatically installing.

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Had a similar occurrence with mine yesterday. I manually ran the updates and all seemed fine for me after that.

might have been the ubuntu partition screwing up. I`ve partially reclaimed it now

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Windows Update installed IE9 on my system yesterday and it forcibly closed all other programs including firewall and anti-virus to install it, which I found worrying - they don`t normally have to do that!

that`s why I use FF

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Pete-MK says...
that`s why I use FF...but Windows Update will still install IE9 as an important update..

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and it forcibly closed all other programs including firewall and anti-virus to install it, which I found worrying Me too, that made me wonder if any app installation could do that, and if so how long before Trojans start doing it.

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Thats why I always set my Automatic Updates options to

"Notify me but don`t automatically download or install them"

that why I can be sure of what I`m downloading first and that it won`t trash my system. Such as WGA, for instance which I`m never going to install. I`ve stilll got a service pack update waiting for Win 7 and I`m not sure I want IE 9 at all.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 3rd May 2011, 16:07