Here is one that kills XP for me recently
KB4461614 ( I note down in the replies that others have noticed that one as well )
( I have a few XP machines and have had to de install all these a few times now.. KB4461614 , KB4461522 , KB4462157 )
Reluctantly I have disabled updates now.
I did have some success at automating keeping a track of the “Bad” and “good” updates, but a couple of things hampered me , …_
_The “wmic” way most people think of using for getting automatically a list of updates…. That actually ( at least as far as I can tell in XP Vista and Win7 ) mostly only list updates specific to the operating system. So it misses all the updates that
usually give problems
_ I did find a useful free software from Nir Sofer that does list all updates. But strangely it misses all Office updates in XP
_... those problems meant that I had to make a list manually of all my Office updates after every bundle of updaters came in , which I then feed in my routines which sorted the “good” from the “bad”
Here are some recent Posts where I recently was looking at some update problems in XP ( and also ActiveX controls embedded in a worksheet in all Operating systems )
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=31405
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31600&p=245201#p245201
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29108355/excel-2003-active-x-bug-from-dec-2014-update-still-broke-what-else-to-try/54350074#54350074
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2242-Excel-2003-ActiveX-controls-embedded-in-worksheet-not-working-then-can%E2%80%99t-even-insert-them-\*SOLVED\*?p=10923#post10923
So if anyone passing knows how to get a full list programmatically of Updates in XP I would be very grateful of a Heads up
Alternatively if there is any other way to block specific updates , that could be explained to a Layman like me, I would be very interested. ( I have not been able to understand any way I have seen suggested yet - I am a computer novice - that's puting
it politely :-) )
Thanks
Alan