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• September Win 8.1 Monthly Rollup KB 4038792 blamed for Internet Explorer mis-fire

  Posted on October 7, 2017 at 09:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Just got this message from AC:

  Just a note to let you know that after installing KB 4038792 September rollup for 8.1, my system would not launch internet explorer 11.  Click on the ‘e’ in the taskbar and nothing happens.

  After uninstalling this update ie11 works just fine

  Don’t know if this will be fixed in the next update, but for now will have to pass on whatever security fixes were in 4038792.  Sure wish they would go back to individual files rather than a rollup.

  I wonder if there’s a similar problem with the September IE security-only patch, KB 4036586.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4036586, KB 4038792

• Patch Alert: Where we stand with September’s Windows and Office patches

  Posted on September 26, 2017 at 06:52 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  It ain’t a pretty sight.

  Any updates, folks?

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Office Patches/Security, Windows Patches/Security KB 4011086, KB 4011089, KB 4011090, KB 4011091, KB 4011110, KB 4036586, KB 4038777, KB 4038782, KB 4038788, KB 4038792, KB 4038801, KB 4039473, KB 4040724, KB 4043361, KB 4043601, September 2017 Black Tuesday

• This month’s Windows 8.1 patch apparently disables Microsoft Account login

  Posted on September 25, 2017 at 08:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  There are lots of hints around the web that this month’s KB 4038792, the 2017-09 Monthly Rollup for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2, is leaving Win 8.1 customers unable to log in to their machines by using a Microsoft Account.

  If you haven’t already set up a Local Account, that’s a yuge problem.

  Microsoft’s known about the problem for almost two weeks. Initial posts blamed the Surface RT and original Surface Pro, but it looks to me like it’s a larger problem – one with automatic update, on Windows 8.1 itself.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Note: Günter Born came to largely the same conclusion this morning… as did Martin Brinkmann on ghacks.net.

  I think it’s great that Microsoft’s making a grand display today of quantum computing (and making a very tidy sum in the process). But what about the folks who are still running Windows 8.1 – who were actively discouraged from using Local Accounts back in the early days?

  Windows News KB 4038792, Microsoft Account, Windows 8.1