Martin
December 22nd 03, 09:39 PM
I've the same experience. Win XP slowed down and hanged
occasinally during reboot after I had applied 811493
hotfix. I removed it later, turned off Automatic Updates
and I am waiting for next revision of this patch :-). I
guess that MS developers should check the hotfixes more
thoroughly before releasing it, don't you think?
Martin
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a amd xp Athlon 1800+ machine with 512 of ddr RAM,
>a GEForce3 TI200 card... Soundblaster Live 128 sound
>card...Nothing unusual otherwise.The system works
>flawlessly and I have no errors or problems. I have
>always downloaded all of the critical updates for my xp
>home operating system; that is until yesterday.
>
>For some strange reason after I downloaded critical
>update 811493 my system slowed down to a crawl. I had of
>course rebooted, and tried everything, but the system
>took 8 seconds or so before any of the programs would
>even start. Toolbars took seconds to come down. I then
>used system restore to bring back the system to the way
>it was the day before, and it worked fine. Then I
>proceded to download the update again, and again it
>brought the system down to a snail's pace...
>
>I finally restored the system back and it is fine again..
>I called microsoft support and payed 35 dollars for them
>to do nothing except fill out a report on my behalf and
>tell me something about another caller who had a similar
>issue. I also went to the update site and sent a report
>and they received it, telling me it will take a long time
>for them to get back to me....
>
>I have always trusted the xp updates, but now I am not so
>trusting. I have tried and tried to figure out just why
>this update (811493) causes this system slowdown... I
>tried instalalling it without virus software, with a bare
>bones configuration, but to no avail....
>I am beginning to feel less trusting of the critical
>updates... feeling more, that if it ain't broke don't fix
>it.
>
>I have gone to the knowledge base and nothing is
>mentioned about this.. As I wait for Microsoft to contact
>me (and probably tell me nothing) is there anyone that
>has any idea of why this critical update might be doing
>this???? I have exhausted all ideas and possibilities for
>this. Again, the system works fine otherwise.
>
> Thanks
> Howard
>.
>
occasinally during reboot after I had applied 811493
hotfix. I removed it later, turned off Automatic Updates
and I am waiting for next revision of this patch :-). I
guess that MS developers should check the hotfixes more
thoroughly before releasing it, don't you think?
Martin
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a amd xp Athlon 1800+ machine with 512 of ddr RAM,
>a GEForce3 TI200 card... Soundblaster Live 128 sound
>card...Nothing unusual otherwise.The system works
>flawlessly and I have no errors or problems. I have
>always downloaded all of the critical updates for my xp
>home operating system; that is until yesterday.
>
>For some strange reason after I downloaded critical
>update 811493 my system slowed down to a crawl. I had of
>course rebooted, and tried everything, but the system
>took 8 seconds or so before any of the programs would
>even start. Toolbars took seconds to come down. I then
>used system restore to bring back the system to the way
>it was the day before, and it worked fine. Then I
>proceded to download the update again, and again it
>brought the system down to a snail's pace...
>
>I finally restored the system back and it is fine again..
>I called microsoft support and payed 35 dollars for them
>to do nothing except fill out a report on my behalf and
>tell me something about another caller who had a similar
>issue. I also went to the update site and sent a report
>and they received it, telling me it will take a long time
>for them to get back to me....
>
>I have always trusted the xp updates, but now I am not so
>trusting. I have tried and tried to figure out just why
>this update (811493) causes this system slowdown... I
>tried instalalling it without virus software, with a bare
>bones configuration, but to no avail....
>I am beginning to feel less trusting of the critical
>updates... feeling more, that if it ain't broke don't fix
>it.
>
>I have gone to the knowledge base and nothing is
>mentioned about this.. As I wait for Microsoft to contact
>me (and probably tell me nothing) is there anyone that
>has any idea of why this critical update might be doing
>this???? I have exhausted all ideas and possibilities for
>this. Again, the system works fine otherwise.
>
> Thanks
> Howard
>.
>