10/8/2013 Windows Update has Jacked my PC

I have been having the same problems over the last few days- some of the updates didnn't even get to the configuration stage. I have Not been using any USB ports on my laptop. Having tried to clear the problem - using FixIt, sfc/scannnow etc in safe mode- with little success, I eventually got my laptop to run again (I don't know why!) BUT this morning, Microsoft crashed the program I was running and decided to load the upgrades - again! I fdon't know which ones (no codes were shown) but as I said the computer frooze while tring to download and configure teh upgrades. After some time I tried to stop  the computer, but it didn't even shut down properly- I had to remove the battery!

This is a problem belonging to Microsoft, the upgrades a re a load of sh*t! They should sort it out-WITHOUT ANY COST TO US!!

It is interesting that the upgrades didn't affect my desktop (that I am using now) which uses XP not W7!

I downloaded the October updates on 3 different computers with no issues on the first two. Unfortunately, my home desktop has turned out to be a quite different matter. I downloaded them on the night of October 10th. There was a glitch with KB2862335, but stopping and restarting the download appeared to fix that.

The next morning, we had no internet access on the desktop. The laptop and our Apple devices were able to access our home network. We called Comcast, our internet service provider and they walked us through various activities with no change. We checked our cables, unplugged our modem and restarted the computer. We checked the ipconfiguration and reset it. We checked to see if our driver (RealTek GBE Family Controller) was up-to-date. Later, I updated the driver by downloading it onto a thumb drive and installing it on the desktop. We also checked to see if the Internet Protocal Bindings (TCP/IP 4; TCP/IP 6) were on the correct settings. Everything that we checked was apparently correct and up-to-date, Comcast was therefore unable to offer a solution.

 I checked with Microsoft who said that there was no reason why the updates should have interfered with the internet connectivity.

 I checked with HP, the manufacturer of the computer. They claimed that they could help me for a price since my warranty had expired. More pertinently, they also informed me that they'd had a number of complaints about these updates.

 I've attempted a system restore from before the downloads took place. Not only was this unsuccessful, it ended up making it impossible to log on to my user account on the desktop. I also uninstalled KB2862335 and KB2862330.

 The error message that I am getting from windows is that my RealTek driver is out-of-date and my Bindings are not appropriately checked. Both of these assertions are incorrect.

 Right now, I am looking for a solution that is not expensive and ideally is less of a nuisance than reinstalling windows.

Thank you in advance to anyone with suggestions.

Microsoft has now twice downloaded the October updates into my HP dv7-1183d running win7 pro (upgraded from VISTA when i bought it.  Both times the downloads completely disrupted my computer, starting up every program as if it was a new computer.   Lost email from yesterday (no email saved).   Wants me to set up default programs and all the things a new computer would ask for every program.   It even asked me to wait while it "set up my desktop".  

Last week I used a restore point prior to the downloads and restored my computer in safe mode to the same condition it was in before the uploads.   Then I unchecked the whole list of 10 or 15 updates and this morning I find that yesterday while my computer was not being used, the whole list was downloaded again and I now have a "brand new computer again".   I would not mind if this was a new computer but sadly it is not.   I will eliminate the updates by restoring in safe mode once again and plead with microsoft to get their act together.

there are a lot of similar problems related to Oct windows update.

mine were on vista 32bit and you can see my discussion under the 1 of 25 update problems.

It took me almost 5 days to completely recover and now I see that 18 of those 25 updates are ready to intall, well I'm quite worried about applying them and will wait, I have turned off automatic install for now

I'm running W7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit.  I had a similar issue after the update.  Had to restore to a previous point before the update (thankfully, I had a very recent restore point), and it seems to work fine now.  I am also waiting for Microsoft to fix the issue before re-installing any of the updates.  After updating, Windows "was unable to start," and Windows Startup Repair failed.  I tried a few repair options, and nothing worked, except restoring.