10/8/2013 Windows Update has Jacked my PC

Anonymous
2013-10-10T08:36:59+00:00

On 10/9/2013...yesterday...I installed the large Windows Update for October.   During the reboot phase, my computer Blue Screened.  First time that has ever happened to me in 20 years with a Windows Update.  So I had to force shutdown and start the pc.   Booted up again normally..blue screen.  Tried again in Safe Mode and it appeared to finish finally.

So that is an issue of itself.  However, the Windows Update appears to have caused me some serious problems this past day.   My computer constantly freezes after some duration of usage, no matter what I'm doing.   (What I mean by "freeze" is "crash", but not BSOD...just can't do anything, even at-tab or alt-cntl-delete)  PC crashed/froze 4-5 times after the update and now.

This is the first major issue I've ever had with a WU and I've no clue what to do.  I did some Googling and there does appear to a lot of people having problems with this update and some mention of KB...2330, although I've no clue if that specific update is my problem or not.

Help would be appreciated.

(On a sidenote, I find this whole "community support" tool to not be very user-friendly at all and cumbersome.  For one , the sort feature just flat does not work)

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T17:43:52+00:00

    There is a problem with the 10/08/2013 Windows Update.  I am running Windows 7 and was able to recover from the BLUE SCREEN and uninstall all the offending updates by restarting in windows safe mode.  Make sure all of the patches listed as failed are backed out.  You should be able to back out all the changes you installed by using windows update.  Attached is a JPG of all the patches that failed and installed.  Microsoft needs to resolve this issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T19:31:05+00:00

    Me too... I have Vista 64x & was able to boot up in safe mode, then ran system restore to go back prior to the updates being installed, now my machine seems to be running fine.  I'm running diagnostics now just in case...

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T20:51:41+00:00

    Initially all security updates on Oct 8 for my Win 7 Pro x64 failed to install (I run a VERY clean system and never had any issues before with this build); even trying an update one at a time resulted in individual failure.

    I reverted to an old backup from July 2013 and the Oct 8 security updates AGAIN failed to install.

    Yesterday I revisited the update page and managed to install all the updates except one which again consistently fails.

    Windows6.1-KB2864202-x64

    Interestingly it is related to some USB update and I've noticed another user entry stating that the USB security update as well made updates to fail.

    Whatever the issue is MS, this group of updates has problems and you need to reassess these updates.

    Thank you for your time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T21:56:00+00:00

    Hi

    Something similar happened to me as well. After the updates were downloaded I clicked on shut down to allow it to install the updates. It was trying to install 28 updates on the shutdown screen. But it got stuck on the first update for over 2 hours. It was saying "1 of 28, Please dont power off the PC" or something along those lines. I knew that it was stuck but I also knew that turning it off might cause some problems.

    Long story short, I turned it off then back on again and after 5 minutes of browsing the internet it froze. I turned it off and back on again and the same thing, kept freezing.

    I tried system restore but it didn't help, safe mode worked but I cant fix it from there either.

    So I just reinstalled windows altogether.

    They really need to look into this

    Regards

    -_-

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T22:20:42+00:00

    Exactly what happened to me. First time Windows update failed for me. All the updates on 10/8 failed initially, then installed eventually, save one KB2864202. Repeated attempts to install this rogue update all fail. 

    Hey MS, something's haywire with the 10/8 updates.... Win7 SP1

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