I have seen and heard of this too with many of my customers believing they have a faulty graphics card or in the case of onboard graphics a faulty motherboard. But after testing their cards etc and finding they were ok I found that reinstalling windows seemed to sort it. I haven't had anyone back after they have re-installed this security update though....yet.

I've come across this with the Betas and RC. It seems like explorer.exe will not autorun on startup.

Ctrl | Shift | Esc brings up taskmgr, from here run explorer.exe - your system is back up and running. Further poking around will readd it to the startup process, problem solved.

We submitted a bug report to the TAP program early on in the beta stages. Still none the wiser as to what causes it though...

And to think that a multi-billion dollar corporation can't test these kind of updates sufficiently before realeasing them

Aren't they tripping over there own feet here!, if they took there time with these things a bit more and rigorously test the updates and operating systems these problems would never happen or at least problems that do occur would be alot more minor.
Microsoft IMHO have no real competitors to worry about, as when they get it wrong Apple or Linux aren't at the kind of scale to take over the operating system market place, hell if they were Microsoft would be alot better at there job when it comes to making flawless operating systems as they would step there game up to overcome the competition.

Microsofts ultimate success is also there ultimate failure, as it will also not motivate them as a company to do what they do best (used to/still do) as there already untouchable and have been for a long time they "can" afford to make mistakes and plenty of them without losing there number 1 spot, for sure

Theres my thoughts on this anyway!

Turns out that it's a bogus report.

The problem is even Microsoft don't have unlimited resources, they aren't in a position to be able to test every update with every combination of hardware and software so they test as much as is feasible before release. Sometimes things don't go entirely according to plan and updates cause problems, its unfortunate but not entirely unexpected.

Couple this with being a very large target and you end up with it being news worthy every time there is a slight problem with anything they release.

And as for not rigorously testing operating systems.... How many people installed the Win 7 BETA? millions? thats a fairly tough test of your OS as far as I'm concerned!

agree

And to think that forum posters can't verify claims before denouncing those horrible multi-billion dollar corporations!

Sorry, couldn't resist... you set yourself up for that one.

Yes I didn't revise that post properly I even repped Josiahb commenting how much of a valid point it is he made,
I guess slagging off windows is almost going as far as slagging off the IT Industry in general

Alex399 apoligises to Mr Microsoft Windows or what else is it they call him.. :hhhmmm the guy with the real squeaky voice.. Mr Gates!

Hold on you!!! you reffered to them "Microsoft" as a horrible Corporation , I think this calls for an apology to Mr Bill Gates BM! Its just not called for

This forum probaly wouldn't exist if it weren't for old Bill after all

...especially considering he doesn't run Microsoft anymore.