28 August, 2014

Microsoft Reissued Update MS14-045 With New Problems

A Black Screen of Death Plagues My Laptop With Z-Order


The z-order Black Screen
Just at the height of praising Microsoft Windows Update services having been improved i was sustained into disappointment with recent activities surrounding the updates. 

MS14-045
Microsoft has reissued the flawed update MS14-045 released Tuesday August 12 which had caused blue screen and reboot errors.  The new update now a real black Screen of Death just caused new problems on my Lenovo running Windows 8.1. After the update the touch enabled laptop was able to get you to the login screen. Immediately after logging in the Windows 8.1 Desktop tiles disappeared and i was replaced with a black screen. It appears the new update is equally flawed.    
                                                                                                                                                               
Microsoft Bulletin MS14-045:  Description of the security update for kernel-mode drivers: August 27 2014.                                                                                                                                                       
Of the two known issues starting with the most grave

Known issue 2

After you install this update, the z-order of the windows is changed. (The z-order calls the SetWindowPos function together with the HWND_TOP parameter.) Therefore, the windows of certain applications may become invisible or may be incorrectly displayed behind other windows.
Status 
We are currently working on a resolution for this issue.

Notes

This issue also occurs after you install the following updates:

2965768 Stop error 0x3B when an application changes the z-order of a window in                              Windows 7 SP1 and
 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
2970228 Update to support the new currency symbol for the Russian ruble in Windows.
2973201 MS14-039: Description of the security update for Windows on-screen keyboard:                  July 8, 2014.
2975719 August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows                        Server 2012 R2

Known issue 1

After you install this security update, fonts that are installed in a location other than the default fonts directory (%windir%\fonts\) cannot be changed when they are loaded into any active session. Attempts to change, replace, or delete these fonts are blocked, and a "File in use" message is displayed. 

Windows 8.1

I have seen around the web Windows 8.1 easy update of 30-45 minutes with a boast that its free. Free aside the Windows 8.1 update is quite tor·tu·ous, really lengthy as downloads take forever given a decent bandwidth 2/2mbps. The update process is filled up with several errors. 
"Microsoft has finally posted official (if partial) guidance on overcoming the seven most common errors when installing the must-have Windows 8.1 Update." Wrote Woody Leonhard on InfoWorld
As a lesson i had to go through KB 2919355 just to have my wife's laptop replacement done. I asked myself why i had to read so much just to do a damn update. It clearly took me to the feared age when windows update was a nightmare. Is Microsoft become relaxed at the recent updates? Are they in a hurry? Who is messing up?

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