** Don't install Windows update Q811493 **

**Tinker** · April 20th, 2003, 13:07 PM

I am not seeing this show up on any of the other forums that I use. I found this at AsusBoards.com ... I decided to just give you the link..

Check it out if your system has slowed down for no apparent reason.....

** Don't install Windows update Q811493 **

**FastGame** · April 20th, 2003, 13:32 PM

Thanks Tinker, I had to un-install it.

**Conan** · April 20th, 2003, 15:42 PM

Thanks for the tip! Uninstalled and System Restored to make sure.

**SupaStar** · April 20th, 2003, 16:50 PM

I have it installed but have not noticed any slow down of Windows, so it stays on for now

**lynchknot** · April 20th, 2003, 17:07 PM

Thank you Tinker - I have this installed. Is it enough to uninstall in add/remove?

Some crazy things were happening on my desktop yesterday: drop down menus/start panel disappearing when moused over, opening 100 instances of the same app, etc........ seems ok now. I checked for trojan and virus but found nothing.

When I uninstalled this, windows said trojan remover may not work properly.

**zErO** · April 21st, 2003, 05:55 AM

I too havent noticed any changes in my system since installing, anyway uninstalling it now

thanks for the heads up

**Thor** · April 21st, 2003, 19:03 PM

Rancho*: I simply advise you to *NOT* install this patch, or if you have - uninstall it. If you install the Q330909 [original article] patch instead you will get even newer versions of the affected system core files and circumvent the whole performance issue. We have already mentioned this in the release article for Q811493 by the way.

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**lynchknot** · June 10th, 2003, 02:13 AM

So I go to windows update and Q811493 is still up there. Has it been fixed or something? I guess I'll dL 818529 - it says I need that too.

**Conan** · June 10th, 2003, 02:25 AM

Originally posted by lynchknot
So I go to windows update and Q811493 is still up there. Has it been fixed or something? I guess I'll dL 818529 - it says I need that too.

I think it's been fixed. I downloaded everything at Windows Update last night.

**cash_site** · June 10th, 2003, 03:35 AM

Conan, I too saw that Q811493 was on the windows update page, have you seen any performance hits after installing this version??

Surely, M$ would have fixed it, right ?

**Conan** · June 10th, 2003, 03:36 AM

Originally posted by cash_site
Conan, I too saw that Q811493 was on the windows update page, have you seen any performance hits after installing this version??

Surely, M$ would have fixed it, right ?

So far so good.

**tosbsas** · June 10th, 2003, 12:02 PM

Same here win2k SP 3

New 811493 works fine

Ruben

Anyone knows why I can't install 329553 - it downloads and starts t o install, but then it tales about an 1 h to get some progress and will never finish.

**egghead** · June 10th, 2003, 14:18 PM

Originally posted by lynchknot

Some crazy things were happening on my desktop yesterday: drop down menus/start panel disappearing when moused over, opening 100 instances of the same app, etc........ seems ok now. I checked for trojan and virus but found nothing.

check your mouse cable.

your cable may be on its way out

just a thought

**lynchknot** · June 10th, 2003, 16:05 PM

Well it, mysteriously stopped suddenly as it came.

**Conan** · June 10th, 2003, 17:20 PM

Originally posted by tosbsas
Anyone knows why I can't install 329553 - it downloads and starts t o install, but then it tales about an 1 h to get some progress and will never finish.

Explanation here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329553