Vista Update Really Jacked Up My Computer
Published October 24, 2009Do you ever go along in life minding your own damn business and then some boogeyman jumps out of the bushes and totally pisses on your parade? Drum roll, puleez…the latest monthly batch of Windows updates for October 2009 - 15 of the fuckers.
Several problems have arisen and short of uninstalling them, which I am THIS close to doing, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix them.
1) Boot-up: Gone are the days when I turn on my computer and it goes straight to my desktop. My own personal bootup routine is a well oiled machine. I get out of bed, hit the head, turn on my computer, start the coffee, and when I get back into my office my computer is all booted up and ready to rock. That’s no longer the case after the latest batch of updates. Instead of logging me in (No password is set on my account. Yea, I know, I’m an easy target.) and going to straight to my desktop, it goes to the user account selection screen and displays the admin and my user icons. I have to click my icon to get to my shit. I have no fucking clue how to make it go away.
2) Video driver: Ok, this wasn’t part of the original 15 updates. This one came a few days later. I noticed there was an update for my video driver NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE. I thought WTF, I’d engage it because I haven’t had one in a long time. BZZZT!!! Wrong choice, bozo. After the update I noticed a miraculous difference in resolution. The edges on everything were smoother. But now whenever I boot up, I get a little balloon message in the system tray that says the optimal screen resolution is 1680 x 1050 and “click here to change it”, or some shit like that. However, it’s already at that resolution…sort of. The display settings says it’s at that resolution, but visually I don’t have that same smooth look I got right after it installed. It’s like something went AWOL. What the fuck, Chuck? Every damn morning I get that damn message balloon.
3) Printing: I have 5 printers. I know, I’m a whore. Suddenly I can’t access two of them. My network sees that they are shared and ready, but I can’t print to them. Shit gets stuck in the queue and I have to delete the jobs because they never come out. It really pisses me off because two of my other printers this past week decided to go tits up on toner. Empty, empty, empty. There’s no printing anything when a cartridge is empty. I also have a new wireless/wired Brother MFC-490CW. Sweet little all-in-one machine. I tested it when I set it up a couple of months ago. Worked great when printing wirelessly from my laptop AND worked great when printing wired from my PC. So I switched the setting on the printer to go from wireless to wired and nothing. My PC sees it’s ready, it even teases me by showing me the fucking toner levels in the bitch, but again, shit gets stuck in the print queue and never comes out. However, it still works wirelessly from my laptop. That tells me my PC is fucked up.
4) Looping Windows: Twice now since this update, I clicked on something and it got stuck and kept opening the same thing over and over. Let me explain. I don’t remember what the first incident was, but the last one was a YouTube video. I was watching an embedded one on a site. I paused it and when I clicked on it again to resume playing, I accidentally clicked twice and it went to YouTube over and opened the video over and over and over and over and over…you still with me on that? By the time it had about 30 new instances opened, I had to manually hit the power button to turn it off. WTF is up with that? I checked to make sure nothing was pressing on the keyboard. (I’ve don’t that before.)
If ANYONE out there can give me some help, post a comment. Oh, and I have KeywordLuv enabled so be sure and post a URL so I can leak some of my lowly link juice to you. Spammers, your shit will be deleted like always.
7 Responses to Vista Update Really Jacked Up My Computer
I am still using XP until now. I have not considered to change it with Vista. I not familiar with the interface and feature…And now after reading your post, I become more sure to keep using XP.
@May, keep XP. When you get ready to get a new computer, then do Windows 7. don’t even THINK about “upgrading” from XP to Vista. It was the worst mistake I made. I had a brand new Dell that worked flawlessly. I bought it right before Vista was out. About a month later I got the free upgrade disk. I didn’t install it right away. I did a lot of research on what could happen if you didn’t do it right. Even though my upgrade went off well, there were problems with interworkings of the operating system. There are things I cannot run on my computer, yet work fine on my Vista built laptop. My advice is to never, EVER upgrade a system unless you are doing a clean install. Then in that case, it’s not an upgrade.
I bought laptop around 8 months ago. It had Vista Pre-installed. It was first time for me using Vista. I got interface designs very nice. But when I started my job, the busy icon started revolving and revolving. I was nearly mad. I had 4 GB RAM and it was latest product from HP. But still didn’t work. It was really annoying. After that I promised not to use that OS again and moved back to XP.
And also I uninstalled Vista from all of my friend’s laptop although they didn’t give me permission
. I felt like that I was the biggest enemy of Microsoft.
And I recently bought Windows 7 through student email id for $30 but haven’t tried it yet because I don’t want to feel like enemy again. So, I will look at everyone’s review for Windows 7, and till now I am getting only positive reviews so far. Hope I will upgrade my OS soon to Windows 7
Well I am using XP service pack 3 until now.and i have not thought to change it with Vista.I am not much aware with vista though ,i have so much read about Windows 7, and till now I am getting only positive reviews so far.
I still have XP as well. I agree with your advice to skip Vista and go straight to Windows 7. I think that will be my plan of action when I decide to upgrade. I have heard other horror stories from the move from XP to Vista. So, I will avoid it all together.
I am not really into the habit of hating inanimate or virtual objects but Vista has made me step over the threshold. I have stopped counting all the hours I’ve spent researching bugs, restarting the computer and just waiting for that friggin harddrive to stop spinning so I can start working!
No, Vista has been such a big mistake that I skipped to windows 7 beta asap and luckily the stability was much much better. So, whatever you do do NOT buy a computer with Vista (especially a laptop), not even with a free Win7 upgrade!
But even with Win7 you will have to be prepared to say bye bye to your peripheral hardware since many lacks vista/win7 drivers…
I am a Windows XP user for so long and I guess I am sticking with it. But I appreciate your article, nice discussion indeed!Kudos!