Recieve a BSOD after KB2859537.

I don't work for Microsoft.  I can't stop the update.  Only they can.  I'm sorry I can't help in that area.

What is updaterstartuputility.exe - do you have an Adobe app on that system?

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/842985

Rift has released a patch for their clients to resolve the crash issue.

http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/general-discussion/380284-attention-windows-7-64-bit-users-most-recent-windows-update-causes-crash-18.html

<I am not loyal, not justifying, just saying the reality of what happens>

Microsoft support first must repro the problem to understand the issue.  If they can't repro it internally (and hey it's obvious they can't as they sent it out on this condition), they have to rely on people working with them to understand the issue.  When there is a consumer side problem (Rift isn't a business app) it takes time for cases to get investigated.  This isn't an excuse, this is just the reality of the situation with more consumer based issues.  While it's not just in the hands of Rift, they also may have the ability to more easily get log files and diagnostics to Microsoft and the developer contacts they have.

I'm not getting a BSOD, but I am experiencing an issue with update KB2859537.

So much so that I've had to uninstall it and turn off automatic updates because it causes some applications to crash. Specifically, it causes the game Rift to error and not be able to be opened.

This is not isolated to me either.

So far, anyone that has Win7 and plays Rift has had to uninstall the update in order to play the game. This has caused an uproar at least in the Rift the community. There are a couple threads on the Rift Forums that have isolated the issue, and have provided a temporary fix until either Rift is able to figure out something . . . or Microsoft rolls back this broken update.

I don't think that it should solely be in the hands of Rift to fix this issue, and that Microsoft should put in an effort to fix what they broke before it becomes more than just a headache.

Uninstalling will work, but that won't ultimately solve the problem with the patch.  How many machines are impacted and would you be willing to work with Microsoft support engineers on a support case?  If so email me at susan-at-msmvps.com (change the -at- to @)