Somewhat in support of the OP, this did seem to be an unusually messy
automatic update. I also experienced problems with the Vista updates on June
10 and 11. Initially the computer appeared to be locked up in the morning
with a frozen screen saver. A hard shut down and reboot resulted in the
updates continuing to install during boot but when the PC did finally finish
it was with a blank monitor. In fact there was no signal going to the
monitor at all and monitor switched to stand-by mode. As it was the computer
had booted but the entire desktop was moved over to the secondary display
(TV) which was turned off at the time. Checking the display settings in
Vista showed that the primary display had been set to disabled during the
update leaving the TV as the only enabled monitor.
Checking in the events logs for the 10th and 11th there were hundreds of
repeated entries similar to the following--
Windows Servicing started a process of changing package KB950759(Security
Update) state from Resolved(Resolved) to Installed(Installed)
Windows Servicing identified that package KB950759(Security Update) is not
applicable for this system (x3lines)
Windows Servicing is setting package KB950759(Security Update) state to
Resolved(Resolved)
Windows Servicing is setting package KB950759(Security Update) state to
Staging(Staging) (x47 lines)
Windows Servicing completed the process of changing update
950759-68_neutral_GDR from package KB950759 (Security Update) into
Staging(Staging) state (multiple lines from -6 to -68)
Windows Servicing is setting package KB950759(Security Update) state to
Install Requested(Install Requested)(x6 lines)
.. . . and so on. The above in particular was repeated on both the 10th and
11th.
There were similar entries for other updates, like KB951376, KB950760,
KB951698.
"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Gordon there is always a possibility that it could have been a 'so called'
> email update we will just have to wait and see what response we get back
> from the OP
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> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>> "John Barnett MVP" <freelance@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:05405C91-557A-44C6-9E43-74654C9EC1CC@microsoft.com...
>>> Which update?
>>>
>>> On 10th all I had was a Microsoft Expressions update. However, on the
>>> 11th the following updates were downloaded:
>>>
>>> kb950759
>>> kb950762
>>> kb951376
>>> kb951698
>>> kb905866
>>> kb950126
>>> kb952714
>>> kb950760
>>>
>>> All of these updates installed on my PC without any problem.
>>>
>>
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>> I'm wondering, particularly with the symptoms that the OP describes,
>> whether this was an "email" update.... -)
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