{"id":237,"date":"2007-04-04T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/04\/the-trouble-with-windows-patches\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T19:57:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T02:57:25","slug":"the-trouble-with-windows-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2007\/04\/04\/the-trouble-with-windows-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Windows Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNET News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1002_3-6173413.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-5&amp;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that &#8220;Windows cursor patch&#8221; is causing troubles on some computers. Apparently the update is not compatible with Realtek device drivers. The Windows cursor patch causes Realtek ethernet and audio drivers stop working.<\/p>\n<p>I experienced the same thing on Tueasday (04.03.2007) after applying the Windows cursor patch on numerous computers. The audio devices stopped working and Windows reported a &#8220;generic svchost error&#8221; consistently. On some computers, the problem can be mitigated by reinstalling the drivers. On some other computers, the problem was a lot more severe.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago my coleague and I encountered a similar &#8220;generic svchost error&#8221; on numerous computers. The problem seemed to happen after Microsoft rolled out the new &#8220;Windows Genuine Advantage&#8221; update.<\/p>\n<p>read more:<\/p>\n<p>svchost.exe &#8212; application error the instruction at &#8220;0x745f2780&#8221; reference memory at &#8220;0x00000000&#8221;. the memory could not be &#8216;read&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swigartconsulting.blogs.com\/tech_blender\/2006\/07\/windows_update_.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/swigartconsulting.blogs.com\/tech_blender\/2006\/07\/windows_update_.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET News reported that &#8220;Windows cursor patch&#8221; is causing troubles on some computers. Apparently the update is not compatible with Realtek device drivers. The Windows cursor patch causes Realtek ethernet and audio drivers stop working. I experienced the same thing on Tueasday (04.03.2007) after applying the Windows cursor patch on numerous computers. The audio devices &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2007\/04\/04\/the-trouble-with-windows-patches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trouble with Windows Patches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[946],"tags":[934,2511,2648,936,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-microsoft","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-3P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}