"We are still investigating this but I wanted to provide some additional clarity on what I mean when I said we stopped offering the update via Windows Update," said Jerry Bryant, senior security ...

Just did a clean install of XP, it booted up for the first time and I went to change the resolution, I set it to 1024x768, clicked apply and it switched, about 3 seconds later the screen goes black ...

Microsoft’s most recent release of security patches is causing some computers to … display a, er, black screen of death. … [The] latest patches [are] causing havoc for some Windows fans. … Redmond ...

I so didn’t need this. I’m a long way from my home office and I helped some family members to update their Windows XP PCs with February’s massive set of Windows patches. Since they fixed a lot of ...

My computer has often (but not always) completely shutoff during a cold boot process (towards the end of the Windows XP boot screen). When this happens I first need to boot in safe mode and then can ...