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• KB 4487017 Feb Cumulative update for Win10 v1803 causing BSODs

  Posted on March 19, 2019 at 14:57 CDT by PKCano • Comment in the Forums

  @weedacres reports that the Feb 2019 Cumulative Update KB KB4487017 for Win10 v1803  is causing BSODs.

  One of my customers called yesterday reporting BSOD’s on their two HP AIO’s. This KB is the 2019-02 Cumulative update for 1803. This apparently started on or about 3/8 when the update was installed.

  I found that they’re getting 001a BSOD’s and after some research saw that many others are having the same problem. I saw several failures while working on both PC’s and finally uninstalled the update last evening. I hid it with wushowhide and so far all seems well.

  My question is how long with wushowhide keep it hidden? Am I going to have to hand tend this thing until the March updates install?

  Is anyone else seeing this problem?

  This is a correction to an earlier report. It was not KB 4023057 causing the problems.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4487017, Win10 1803, Windows 10 cumulative update

• More problems with Windows patches breaking older Access databases

  Posted on February 19, 2019 at 07:50 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Susan Bradley noted over the weekend that all of this month’s Windows patches break some Access 95-era Jet databases. That’s been acknowledged by Microsoft in all of the Knowledge Base articles.

  Now an anonymous poster here on AskWoody has raised the cry about a second kind of old-fashioned Access database problem. NSch_L gives the details on the Microsoft Answers forum:

  Problem with Access database after KB 4487017 [February’s Win10 version 1803 cumulative update] and KB 4487026 [this month’s Win10 1607/Server 2016 cumulative update]

  We use an Access 97 database for our applications as a master database, so we can easily destribute this to customers. We access this master database using Adox to get the tables and columns (fields), compare it to the live SQL database and make changes where necessary.

  Since the patch, we are getting errors when requesting the columns for wider tables. We are using an Adox.table and then use the .columns. When doing this for tables with more than 128 fields (exact number not sure) give error 3251 “Object or provider is not capable of performing requested operation”.

  This is causing all kinds of problems.

  It’s easy to click your teeth and tell these people that they should’ve upgraded their databases to a newer format about a hundred years ago. But it doesn’t work that way. Many of these older Access databases run drive key line-of-business apps that, for many reasons, can’t be changed without a complete re-write.

  That isn’t as… incompetent… as it sounds. Remember when Microsoft apparently lost the source code to the 32-bit Equation Editor, back in November 2017? People in glass houses, etc.

  Windows Patches/Security Access 95, KB 4487017, KB 4487026