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Question

Microsoft update on Windows 7

Aug 14, 2014 3:41AM PDT

Toshiba - Win7 64-bit, 12 GB RAM, 500GB HD
I left my computer on last night to allow the updates. When I booted up this morning, it said not to shut down the computer but allow the updates which should have been done last night. I let it update, rebooted and everything was wrong. It would not allow me to search with my Startpage search engine, everything was a dangerous page! I couldn't use my email because a page came up telling me to Add a Security Exception that the certificate belongs to a different site, and could be identity theft. Then I could not log on to Cnet on Firefox, the round thing went round and round. In the end I decided to do a restore back to two days ago before the update, but it made no difference then I discovered the date on the computer was changed back to 1st January 2010 and the time was different, so I changed all that, and then Firefox put up a message that I had not used it for a long time (I use it several times a day) and did I want to reset it.
This can only be due to the Microsoft update, is there anything I can do about it that I have not done.

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If it was the updates, I wonder why...
Aug 14, 2014 3:55AM PDT

...it didn't affect the 3 desktops and a laptop I applied it to two days ago. I have both the 32 and 64 bit versions, and both Home Premium and Professional. Have you ever run a registry cleaner?

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Cool.
Aug 14, 2014 4:04AM PDT

You've tripped over an area that troubles Windows and Microsoft a lot. If you want to see Windows and apps falter, stumble and more, change the date time in the bios and boot up. That's an area worth fixing in my book.
Bob

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Good
Aug 21, 2014 11:17PM PDT

thanks for sharing

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Microsoft update on Windows 7
Aug 22, 2014 2:57AM PDT

I eventually spoke to a techie from my broadband provider who was most informative and helpful. The MS update had change the security settings on ALL my email addresses, which prompted the Certificate message. He changed them all back for me, and advised me to do this if it happens on any future MS updates.

I have changed my update settings now to not allow MS to do this all automatically, so I can make sure I don't get into the same trouble again without realising what has happened.

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Microsoft Update Problems (DO and DID) Occur..
Aug 22, 2014 6:25AM PDT

Quite a few people experienced (varied) problems this month.

Those in the below 51 page thread (created on August 13th) encountered a Blue Screen of Death after a reboot.

"Blue Screen (Stop 0x50) after applying update KB2982791 to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit"

And some postings about it a few days later :

Microsoft pulls Patch Tuesday kernel update - MS14-045 can cause Blue Screen of Death
Update: Microsoft pulls crippling patch from Windows Update
Microsoft Yanks Windows Updates After a Rash of Blue Screens

Glad to hear you have your specific problems sorted out. More importantly, that you changed your settings.

Best of luck moving forward..
Carol