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I’m sorry for posting enough information. My anxiety is running high. There’s only me as their IT and my focus is scattered on too many fires. They took to long to make a decision and choose to only upgrade these old 2014 computers. They are HP EliteDesk 800 G1 small towers and SFF all purchased at the same time. I’ve kept the drivers generally up to date. They run Windows 7. The problem with the .NET rollup started I believe in September on three computers that morning. It happened during patch week and I heard to avoid the .NET update, saw it was installed on theirs, uninstalled it, reboot, and the problem was gone.

Not long after I found it happening on others and on my computer too. My computer was also one of those HP EliteDesk 800 G1 but one that had been upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 2004. The only thing in common is the hardware so it could very well could be the hardware. I was hopeful the October or NOvember update would fix whatever caused the hassle in September but they didn’t. I’m at full stop now on upgrading more of those Windows 7 computers until I sort this out.

Put on top of that the state pushing us back to work from home. Mine a tiny home with 6 of us, 3 generations, and health issues. I’d prefer to be at the office. For sure. But I’m here sitting at my desk next to the front door. As close to out the door as I can get.

This morning I have another Windows 7 computer behaving the way I saw them last before but could be something else. Didn’t get November updates. Last updates were in October. Still sifting through the ashes. Network adapter acting up, Outlook opens but crashes soon as you try to do something in it. Rebooting doesn’t help. Stuck on Please wait on reboot now. Will have to force off next and hope it comes back. The only spares I have are the Windows 10 upgrades I’m still sorting out. She may have to receive one if I can’t get this one to come back.

Yes, the patch Tuesday ones. Most recently KB4580419. Last month it was KB4578968 and before that KB4576478.

If only there was something I do about it so the update could roll. I need to get more Win 10 Pro upgrades done by end of the year. I’m under the gun and heading back to working from home on top of it.

Yes. Sorry about the typo. When I go to uninstall it, what was actually installed for .NET is KB4578977. That’s the one I’m uninstalling. The app crashing most is Outlook 2016. After the uninstall the computers seem to run slow after the reboot. I’m trying to stay hopeful it’s just that they needed time to settle after the reboot.

At end of August I discovered ESU covering many of these computers wasn’t actually working. I cleared that up and ran the critical and important updates available in September. My mistake was not setting their computers back to ‘wait and see’ mode. I’m paying for it now.

I’m so ready to be done with these Windows 7 computers.

We have a few apps crashing on some Win 7 Pro computers unfortunate to have .NET KB457997 rollup installed on 10/13/20. Apps include Google Chrome and Outlook 2016 (365). The latter with fault module ucrtbase.DLL errors. I’m going through and removing it and continue to block on the rest. Good thing I only install on a few to test before going company wide.

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Microfix

Showed up again on a recently Office upgrade computer. This time in Excel. Screenshot attached.

Any suggestions how to block or if there’s a WU that I can remove to stop these from showing up?

Sorry about that. I forgot we have Mimecast’s URL link protection on our email. It changes links to one at Mimecast where the site is analyzed to determine if safe. I forgot to include a link that didn’t have that conversion.

Wish I’d captured a screenshot last night so you could see what I saw. I wrote down the message as written then clicked an X to close it. I’ll post a screenshot when I see it next.

Daisy

I want to give you guys a chance to get it right. As it is now, it’s not what I expect or need. I enjoyed reading the full email newsletter while waiting on something. Never had a problem with it. I am not likely to click a link to see a full article. Also, I save the newsletters so I can go back anytime I want and search through them. I won’t be able to do that with only partial email newsletters.

Please remove this post. I have resolved it by uninstalling update KB3057839. It is apparently an issue with Windows 7 64bit and a security program on the affected computers. For more information, see this link over to the Spiceworks site. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1002361-copy-paste-no-longer-working?

Please move this thread into Windows 7 forum. My apology for putting it in the wrong place.

Thank you. I have a spare cable organizer that is perfect for on top, ready to bolt down when the rack gets here.

Never find a way to do this with a login script. I manually uninstalled KB2956128 one workstation at a time. Still have more than half of them left to do.

Here we are now in March and Microsoft update has pushed out more updates, and once again has caused this problem with a new patch. I haven’t figured out which one it is yet. Has someone had this same problem and figured out what patch it is so I can get started, again, to uninstall and block the new one?

I was terribly frustrated and out of patience when I last posted. The issue resolved on its own with just a little time. To recap, the ISP who has our domain AA.com DNS changed the A records points to the static IP address of domainBB.com. It works the way we want. When you go to domainAA.com it goes to domainBB.com but does now show as domainAA.com. Good. I put in a .htaccess file to point domainBB.com to domainAA.com which is working too, mostly. I’ll post those .htaccess issues separately if I can’t figure them out. Thank you.

… An alternative would be to set up the new site on the same server as the old, but in a different directory…

No can do. We need the new website on Godaddy to have access to everything we will need to redevelop the site including but not limited to WordPress. Where it is now with the ISP they offer nothing. Zip. Buttkiss.

…A domain is just a nice name for an IP address. You could make parts of your domain go to any IP address just by changing the DNS record and still retain other IP addresses for mail etc. e.g. change the DNS name “www” and “@” to point to the IP address of domainBB.com.

I give up. I obtained the fixed IP address for the domainBB.com site once we have the SSL setup. Gave that to the ISP and they changed the website only IP to that. Didn’t work. Visitors to domainAA.com are being redirected to domainBB.com but loses the domainAA.com in the URL line. It shows as domainBB.com. We want to hid that.

Apparently an impossible task I was given. I don’t see any other way to try this. I’ll have to move the DNS zone file to Godaddy away from the ISP. What a huge mess that will be.

Godaddy says I get a static IP when we add SSL. This is something we’d planned to do anyway.

So, pointing www and @ to that static IP will continue to show dpearson.com in the URL address line? Or will it just be another way to forward without the mask? I’m afraid once I got to the expense and time setting up SSL, it won’t make any difference. Pointing the DNS zone file to the static IP will just be a forward.

A domain is just a nice name for an IP address. You could make parts of your domain go to any IP address just by changing the DNS record and still retain other IP addresses for mail etc.
e.g. change the DNS name “www” and “@” to point to the IP address of domainBB.com.

cheers, Paul

A static IP address for the website not available through Godaddy.