13 responses to “Black Tuesday is here – batten down the hatches”

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   Dennis February 13th, 2013 at 22:11

   Hi Woody, thanks for keeping my PC safe. As others I received the 10 new updates. I do not use or have Office. Are there any of these updates we could just get rid of and not bother with them in the future? thanks.

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   woody February 14th, 2013 at 07:24

   Dennis -

   If you received notifications about updates to Office, Windows Update has detected something on your machine that requires the updates. You may have an old Office document viewer, for example.

   The only way to get rid of the updates is to get rid of whatever program(s) require the updates. Easier said than done, I know.

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   Jacob February 14th, 2013 at 12:10

   So I don’t know if I’m supposed to say it elsewhere so I’ll say it here. After the update my computer’s RAM usage from startup has increased from around 45% of 3 GB to 70%. Is there a way to fix this without doing a system restore?

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   woody February 14th, 2013 at 22:44

   Jacob -

   Which update are you talking about?

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   Jacob February 15th, 2013 at 01:13

   The ten most recent updates. I believe they were released on the 13th.

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   Erik February 15th, 2013 at 03:46

   Woody – Along with the normal black tuesday offerings, I was offered a patch to update Microsoft Security Essentials to version 4.2.223.1. Thoughts on whether to wait on this patch (along with the rest of the updates) or download the MSE update immediately and let the rest of the updates fester for a while?

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   Gianni February 15th, 2013 at 18:39

   Hi Woody,i can’t get security update for Microsoft .NET Framework (KB2789642 and KB2789643) to install on my XP machine, error code: 0×641.

   Do you happen to know if is this happening to people other than me? TIA

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   woody February 15th, 2013 at 21:05

   Gianni -

   That’s a common error code for .NET patch install failure.

   If I were you, I’d wait for a few weeks, and see if Microsoft fixes it. There’s nothing immediately important in the .NET patches. So let it slide for a while, and see what happens.

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   woody February 15th, 2013 at 21:10

   Erik -

   Updating MSE is always a good idea. Let the others fester. (Good term, BTW.)

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    Gianni February 15th, 2013 at 23:30

    Well, i’ll follow your advice, Woody…thanks so much for your time!

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    rc primak February 16th, 2013 at 20:18

    BTW, for Windows 8 (IE 10) the Flash Player Update comes through MS Updates. This is needed now. It also wouldn’t hurt to run the current MSRT update.

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    Jonathan Breton February 19th, 2013 at 02:28

    No trouble with patch (up to date) but I don’t update my .Net framework

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    FTWMike February 28th, 2013 at 10:30

    I find it interesting that yesterday “Platform Update for Windows 7 x64-Edition (KB2670838)” was listed as an ‘Important’ and today it’s ‘Optional’ or did I imagine yesterday?

    Mike