KB 2670838 - The EVIL UPDATE

Anonymous
2013-03-16T20:00:56+00:00

Microsoft:

Why don't you fix the errors caused by KB 2670838 instead of having my computer re-install it as part of IE 10 without giving me any warning that it was going to do that?

This update has two effects on my system*; 1. For whatever reason, it turns the lower taskbar turquoise, 2. Explorer 9 or 10 and Chrome 25 get a 60 delay in information typed into them with internet speeds reminiscent of dial-up, while Firefox 19 ceases to function at all; The internet becomes essentially non-usable.

I wasted an entire day on this two weeks ago including an hour on the phone with one of your technicians when it was first installed.  He had no idea what the problem was and I eventually gave up and uninstalled it.  My problems ceased immediately upon its removal.

I had to go to an internet forum to learn that many people had these problems and how to set my updates to not automatically be installed.  That proved to be no help as when installing IE10 this EVIL UPDATE (KB 2670838) just re-appeared again with no notice in your description that this might happen.  Now I guess I will never install an update again since you provide no clues as to what it could do.

* My system info:

HP Envy, Windows 7 Home Premium, two screens attached using an HP usb notebook port replicator.  Buy the way, this HP port replicator is a piece of garbage that has to be rebooted (the replicator - not the PC) as it freezes once or twice a day.  But I thinks that's on HP - not you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-08-02T01:27:16+00:00

    As far as I can determine, this problem still exists on my Windows 7 system updated in July 2016 with IE11 installed.  Except for the outer border and system gadgets, the Resource Monitor screen is transparent or missing with KB2670838 installed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-01T00:20:34+00:00

    Such support was offered when IE11 first became available to Win7 in November of 2013.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-31T15:13:51+00:00

    As update KB2670838 is a required component of IE11, I would think that support for IE11 would include fixing the obvious problem with this update so that the Windows 7 Resource Monitor and any other affected program will run with non-default user display settings (such as Large Fonts).

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-16T23:53:24+00:00

    Thank you, Thank you.......Thank you very much!

    Someone finally has the audacity and courage to point to the real source of why this tends to happen a majority of the time. Microsoft's CEO's always like to parade the company around like it's all that and a bag of chips, when in reality, half the garbage we get from Microsoft, I wouldn't even consider feeding to my dog!

    Whatever Microsoft says about how it does-------it really is just Smoke and Mirrors-------another dog and pony show created by these corporate thugs in order to distract us from the truth!-------Really!-------If you don't know that by now-------then you need to get with the program!-------And preferably not one made by Microsoft!

    Ever since Microsoft decided to force the customer's hand in the biggest way it ever has throughout it's history, by attempting to shove Win10 down our throats, it really has become more than just a bad taste left in our mouths-------more or less-------they've proven beyond the shadow of any doubt where their allegiance really lies-------and it certainly isn't with the customer!

    It doesn't matter how much Microsoft attempts to sugar-coat it's sordid history, one thing is for certain, 'We the People' are getting increasingly fed up with the Evil Empire and it's antics!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/business/us-vs-microsoft-overview-us-judge-says-microsoft-violated-antitrust-laws-with.html

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/03/06/microsoft-eu-antitrust-fine-731-million/1969007/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

    Anyone want to bet how much Microsoft contributes to Hollywood and other corporate hooligans whom they've aligned themselves with?-------If you guessed more money than you will ever see in your lifetime-------then you'd be right!

    Some may say I read to much into stuff sometimes, but I'd like to think our generation has come out of their shell enough to see through all the facades put on by these corporations and their fascist owners. Just take a good look at the world around you and to what is really going on and it quickly becomes quite clear just how destitute conditions really are right now.

    The Masonic Manipulators, Illuminati brethren, New World Order fascist Creeps-------call them what you will, but make no mistake about it-------They are going to roll out with lethal force, if necessary, their ideal for a new world whether we like it or not. As Micheal Jackson so rightfully lamented in one of his last songs before his terrible death-------"They Don't Really Care About Us!"

    If you've seen "The Force Awakens," by J.J. Abrams-------then you've also seen how the corporations and governments of this world really feel about us commoners.

    Remember the scene when the "First Order" prepares to destroy the "Republic" that supports the "Resistance?" Do you recall the platforms used in this scene, the demeanor and words used by General Hux, in which he says that all must bow before the "First Order" and that it will be the last day of the Republic, just before he gives the order to Fire the weapon from Star-Killer Base?!-------From the very beginning of this scene, of General Hux's speech, right down to the Hile-Hitler salute given to him by all the Storm-Troopers lined up in battle formation, was all too eerily familiar to me-------It was nothing more than a real life re-enactment right out of World War II, complete with the likeness of German Nazi garb and even a blood-red curtain adorned with the 'Third-Reich' Eagle used as a backdrop behind the general during his war-cry about destroying the Republic.

    Hmm........Where have I heard fore-warnings to ordinary citizen's before about evil behavior like this?-------Oh, that's right, I remember now-------it was the famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln almost a century ago, in which he specifically gave the American people a stern warning about the Corporate empires that were soon to follow of whom are now so defiantly rampant and maniacally-meddling throughout our world today. The words that follow are truthful words of which I will never forget and of which I hope you never do too...

    “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow and the money-power of the country will endeavor to per-long its reign, by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.”---Abraham Lincoln - ( 16th President of the United States of America )

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-15T20:13:17+00:00

    KB2670838...is a prerequisite for the installation of Internet Explorer 11 and support for earlier IE versions is ending.

    Actually, support for IE10 & earlier in Win7 ended on 12 January 2016. If you don't have IE11 installed, your Win7 computer's now missing six (6) critical security updates!

    • "End of Life" upgrade notification for Internet Explorer

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3123303

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