Posts in Windows Update
Blinking wifi icon and black screen on Surface 2
- 21 August 2018
This is the second time I run into this problem after a Windows Update. First time was halfway through last year’s Microsoft MVP Summit and I had to Remote Desktop to my home machine with a spare android tablet and Bluetooth keyboard/mouse to get access to Windows apps.
Good that the summit wifi was amazing but a Surface 2 with touch cover was way easier to carry around than the combination of tablet/keyboard/mouse. I got around the problem by manually uninstalling KB3033055 with dism remove package in recovery console command prompt and hide the update afterwards. But recently I got the black screen with blinking wifi icon, again after installing a bunch of Windows Updates.
Windows Update KB2538242 or KB2538243 offered repeatedly
- 24 June 2011
Recently (this post was originally published in 2011) there is an outburst of posts related to the KB2538242 update being offered repeatedly on MSDN’s Visual C++ forums, TechNet’s various Windows security forums and the Windows Update forum on Microsoft Answers forums. Questions about KB2538243 appear as well, but to a less degree.
To save your time going to the forums or calling Microsoft’s free security hotline, this is my answer:
Bug in Security Update for Visual C++ Redistributable Package: April 12, 2011 causes program error on Windows 2000
- 17 April 2011
Update:Microsoft’s Visual C++ team has released workarounds on the problem. AVG has released an utility that can revert the KB2467175 update, downloadable at http://twitter.blog.avg.com/2011/04/avg-feedback-update-26411.html
Avira is reporting that its AntiVir software throws “The procedure entry point FindActCtxSectionStringW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll.” error after installing the update released earlier this week.
More ADO issues with KB983246/Windows 7 SP1: a reference count leaking when event is used
- 14 March 2011
Update: Microsoft fixed the issue in Windows 8.
User Angus Robertson is reporting that in an application that references ADO 2.1 type library and getting records using the adAsyncExecute method, each execute call leaks three handles and about 20K of memory.
Breaking change in ADO update KB983246 (included in Windows 7 Service Pack 1)
- 24 February 2011
Update2: Microsoft fixed the issue in Windows 8 in a way that old programs would work without change. Those who recompiled with the KB983246 version either need to roll out KB983246 to customer computers or switch back to the old type libraries. New programs are encouraged to use the KB983246 version of type library when they no longer need to support computers without KB983246.
Update: please refer to the knowledge base article kb2517589 An ADO application that is re-compiled on a Windows 7 Service Pack 1-based computer does not run on down-level operating systems for walkarounds