Windows Update KB2919355

Hi Jay,

In case it can help to not becoming completly crazy, just to let you know that for sure, you are not the only one facing such problems.

I think that Windows 8 is as bad as (worst than?) Vista was. Unfortunatelly it is impossible to buy the previous version in some countries... and looks that the MS ingeeners are waiting solutions from the clients. A new way to make business may be.

Best

mb

i installed this

Update for the English Input Personalization Dictionary - KB2881553 (Version 16.1.915.1)

windows font changed to symbols and i cannot read anything in windows, processor is hanged because of the hard processing of symbols

no programs are runnig even in safe mode but the special texts who use different fonts than default fonts actualy are not touched

i need help

windows is DESTROYED

it wont recover

nor sfc/

nor the Disk

rstui service is not running and restoring images is not working

I reinstalled the  windows and it's fine

Hello MBaussard and Iman,

Thank you for your responses.

MBaussard, Did you try using suggestions provided in the previous posts after may 5?

Iman, I appreciate your efforts towards resolving the issue.

I am glad that you managed to fix the issue.

Thank you

Dear Radandeep,

Yes I have tried and re-tried ALL the proposed solutions up to last Thusrday (15 May).

None of them worked.

I have also tried to restore my computer to previous point, and re-update. Updates failed again and again... (always the three indicated above, other were correctly installed apparently).

I hope that I will not have to make a refresh as I will have to reinstall all the other sofware and customizations as I understood from the "info windows". (Worst, a full re-installation!).

Actually, I cannot afford to do it currently due to other work emergencies.

I have been informed that I am not the single one facing such problems.

So I hope you will find a solution to this problem quickly.

Thanks and regards

MB

MB.........

I hate to tell you but I believe the only fix is a complete format of the hard drive, and a clean install. I don't know for sure, but I think there was something corrupt in an update prior to Windows Update KB2919355 that keeps it from installing, and the only way is to start over. You are correct that you will have to reinstall all software, and any specific customizations you have, but if you back up your files on a separate hard drive it will most likely take less time than you have already spent trying to fix this. As irritating as this is considering the only thing we did wrong was install all updates as they come to us, and although I think the engineers at Microsoft should be able to create an update that identifies the issue and fixes it, I don't see that happening. It took me about 30 minutes to format and do a clean install, and then another 2-3 hours for all the updates. After that I don't have a ton of customized stuff so the rest went easily.

I know it's a pain in the ****, but it solves the problem!!

Good luck,

Jay (Still prefer this to selling my soul to Apple)