Comments on: The AutoRun patch, KB 967715, is a mess

By: woody

woody — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:37:41 +0000

Suresh -

Check out http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=38665

By: Suresh Keswani

Suresh Keswani — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:14:46 +0000

I have windows XP Pro installed on desktop PC. It installed all the updates except KB967715. 10 times i tried to install through microsoft windows update site. Everytime it says ” failed to install”. Whats wrong? I believe others are also having the same problem. Roxio is not installed, but Nero CD burning software is installed. My all USB drive load automatically. Whats wrong?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:13:16 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop and I have tried every fix and I do not have Roxio software and it still wants to update this patch everytime I boot up. I’d rather just uninstall all MS software and install Apple software if it was possible.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:23:09 +0000

This patch automatically downloaded and installed itself (and yes I have MS Auto Update turned off and somehow I still got it.. not happy at all about it!!). I have one of those little Acer Spire Ones’.. it’s not a bad cheap system, but after the computer restarted from this update, I got the black screen of death! Power and fan turn on, but nothing else. Just a plain black screen! So I trudged on to the desktop to google possible fixes, and apparently, the update/patch is killing a lot of these little Acers! Also, a few other systems. A friend of mine is a Page at the State Capitol, and it killed 9 of their Notebooks this week! A BIOS fix is the only thing that seems to cute it. Bad Microsoft!

By: R1

R1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:43:13 +0000

Was I ever sorry I installed this patch. There are a lot of different solutions out there that people are offering, but none of them are working for me. I guess I’m just going to have to get used of it.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:12:55 +0000

Sorry to see so many people regard you as a authoritative figure.
But in the land of the blind the one-eyed is king, I guess.
This patch doesn’t do anything more then fixing the policy behavior of autorun (so you should install it!), it doesn’t change the autorun settings itself, so you will have to do that manually as Susan Bradley wrote down (she knows what she’s talking about).
Yeah, holding the shift key down to prevent viruses from spreading is a good idea!
But I agree that M$ is lax in not fixing this.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:47:02 +0000

967715 is installing every time I hop on the net. I don’t have Roxio. Hmmm.

By: walter

walter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:13:14 +0000

If you choose to uninstall Roxio, How can you reinstall it if you don’t have the original disk?

By: michael

michael — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:52:50 +0000

Thank you. I “installed” 967717 6 or 7 times. Then I saw your post. I uninstalled Roxio, did the update, and reinstalled roxio. It seems that all works properly now, and I am not bothered with a so-called “new” update at every start up.

By: Br1anstorm

Br1anstorm — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:32:23 +0000

The various forum discussions about KB 967715 – and the variety of suggested solutions – are getting about as complex and confusing as the original problem. As a non-expert, I’m reluctant to mess with registry settings.

I have XP Pro and I normally do custom Windows updates. I downloaded 967715, and it apparently installed. But when I next went to do an update, the Update website said it was downloaded but needed to be installed (again). It now does this each time I check for updates.

Let me pose the questions in simple and logical terms:
1) has this patch indeed been installed in my system?
2) if so, why am I being asked to install it again?
3) should I uninstall it (via Add/Remove Progs), and if so is it then possible to reinstall it and not get reminders?
5) or should I do without it completely?
6) or what else can I do to keep my system safe and up to date without risking a foul-up in the Registry?