A client of mine recently noted his PC had done an automatic update, after he had explicitly set the PC up to advise, but not update unless done manually. I have seen in the recent past M$ messages advising End Users that their automatic update feature is not set up correctly, and offers to "correct" that. The result, automatic updates are re-enabled. Anyway, he ran into problems afterward with his Office XP Word only able to run in Safe Mode (Word Safe Mode, not the OS in Safe Mode). I ended up fixing it by deleting his normal.dot file, then letting Word XP rebuild it. Easy enough to do, but for End Users to be told they have an incorrect setup after setting it up to behave a certain way just seems real wrong to me. His fix was easy, fortunately. I have heard too many stories where that has not always been the case.
Gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MB Software Solutions Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Windows has recovered from serious error Man-wai Chang wrote: > MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > >> Twice now within the past 3-4 days, I've woken up to find my laptop >> "offline" and then when I boot it back up, it gives me the "Windows has >> recovered from a serious error" message, and then goes (after I confirm >> to report error to M$) on to a web page to site that says: >> > > Could it be caused by automatic update? > > Not sure, but I doubt it, since I set my AU settings to "Manual--let me download and do it when I want to...hands off you M$ bastards!" ....but then again, M$ has done things like this in the past and been caught, even those users had the settings set to off/manual!!! -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
