Who is running your computer? You or Microsoft?
Take charge of your computer, turn updates off or if you do turn them on choose which ones you want.
Now, take charge, do a system restore to before they installed the updates and turn "Big Brother" OFF.
Microsoft seems determined to make me hate Vista ... And their efforts are succeeding. After their most recent update of August 9th (see details in Note below), I have two new problems: (1) Vista completely reorganized all my desktop icons and (2) my System Tray is presenting me with the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and the devices it's offering to remove are my two internal hard drives and my DVD drive.
Has anyone seen these two problems? I have a Dell E521 running Vista Home Premium with Aero turned off and using the Windows Classic display mode.
Thanks, all.
NOTE: The three updates that were installed on August 9th are two updates for the NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller and the NVIDIA driver update for the GeForce 6150 LE.
P.S.: If this big Vista "fix pack" update we're expecting (from KB938194 and KB938979) doesn't fix things, I don't think I'll be waiting for the Vista service pack in the Fall. I guess I'll be blowing the dust off my UNIX books again. I'm being as kind as can be expected, but Vista is just one big disappointment after another, in my view.

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