Be careful with the new Windows updates....

Installed them all except for Microsoft Framework (whatever it is) 4.5. If one is marked you have to restart your computer (usually have to anyway) but if one is marked you have to install it by itsself then you have to go multiple times back to Windows Update because those have to be installed separately.
 
Adobe Flashplayer had an update, could not install it until something happened, but if using Firefox, then check your Add-ons in the menu item Tools to see if anyone has to be updated. At first I thought it was Adobe, but it was something else. Then there was an update to the Avira free anti-virus I run, in which I had to download the free version again and I un-installed the old version. Not sure why but they added showing Windows Firewall on it to also but addressed the one thing I did not want which was their search toolbar (which I had left unchecked as to not install) but found it in Programs and Features of Control Panel and just un-installed it there because I had downloaded another program lately called Toolbar Cleaner because they stay they un-install those but they leave something behind like you are going to use it again or something and just hide it.
 
Well, whatever it was with Adobe Flash Player that finally installed and everything is back to normal. Can't remember exactly the steps I took but a lot of it has to do with getting up the Tools menu in Firefox, downloaded that update then I think it worked, while checking the Add-ons and things not reporting correctly like Java 7 Update 45 being alright, but both the Director and Java add-in having to "Ask to Activate" if I ever come upon a java website. I guess that is in my hands, as then I decide, otherwise no more Java Applets automatically downloaded starting up any java program through any browser, but then I do not use IE so Firefox is it. In fact I took out IE 10 or whatever I had in Programs and Features in Control Panel for Windows' programs to have on the computer.
 
And everything is running fine again, just a bunch of updates at the end of the year I guess, whatever. Now back to Microsoft and Windows Update to download that Framework 4.5, which I doubt I need either but see if there is anything else.
 
At the same time I was un-installing my graphic card drivers and returning that back to Standard VGA just to clear out any old versions still hanging around and just re-installing that again for my Nvidia graphics card because deleting the graphics card in Device Manager in Windows insures that eventually you get back to just ol' Standard VGA and Microsoft's HD Audio driver in Sound whatever Devices and then re-installing the graphics drivers to only have one on the computer.
 
But everything is working and no problems like you had.
Same-o, same-o, they always want to install something else and even if you check the box you do not want this toolbar or that it always seems it is there anyway just hiding by them. But then sometimes you have to un-install those in Programs and Features in Control Panel the regular way, and I just use Toolbar Cleaner program to check it all then.
 
Whew!
Time to eat!
Too many assumptions to me about what they can do, free program or not.
Garbage cleaning on the computer with these people.
Some people actually re-install Windows again to clean up the mess, but then a person really does not have to do that if you catch the little sneeky BSers frackin' with the computer.
 
Little Gremlins in the computer, little gremlins gone, gone, gone!

And it is my computer despite Microsoft!
 

Thanks for posting the info Julien!

Thanks Julien....
I'm on Win 8 and just did a clean install, so I'm not sure if these updates will affect it......will check on some these programs and see.
 
@Spacealf: Xcom Enemy Within is one game I'm looking to get (on sale). Do you play multiplayer mode?  (Steam seems to be always updating their software crap, but I do like using Steam :))

Well, in Windows 7 you also may have Windows Defender (which I made a desktop icon to and needs also to be updated - sort of like an anti-virus and sometimes you can not run two at the same time, but Avira free version works well with anything I have so I also use that and Windows Defender which was on the computer and in Windows 7). I just use Firefox for a browser and had no problem with it, but there are commands anyone can use if you type - about:config in the URL bar of Firefox. The only one I am concerned with is the command - geo:enabled which like anything else does not give your location of where you are at (physically) in the world. At least I guess that is what it is suppose to do. Ghostery is its own program and they have a list that just blocks most tracking little cookies or whatever it is that keeps marketing people and advertising people not knowing where you are going on the Internet or what you are looking at.
I still figure it is my computer and to have all this tracking stuff for whatever purpose let them track someone else, besides the pop-up blockers in the browser its self and anything else they made a mess of the Internet and usually slows it down. I don't need it also for u-tube videos or anything else I do as none of that interferes with being on the Internet, just things you find out along the way and can use or do not have to use.
 
I went for a day with that Adobe Flash-player not downloading or updating, but I think that was due to Firefox having an update needed first. I usually guess at this stuff going on, but again everything is working, no problems, and everything is fine. I just watch my Local Area Connection (status screen) which I connect or disable if using the Internet. Otherwise I am off of the Internet, and do not leave it on all the time as some other people who do not know what to do to disable anything not agreeable to at least me while doing anything on the computer, including Control Panel -> Administrative Tools-> System Configuration to see all the little start-up programs that start on the computer which with some are not needed, all done by Microsoft to begin with.
Phooy!~

 I  also use Startpage for a search engine instead of Google and all their scheming devices to know what it is you are looking and searching for on the Net. It just blocks google from knowing.
https://startpage.com/
which can be added to your browser (or in this case Firefox, since I am not using IE any version).
 
Whatever, there are people who want to make your day while using your computer and others who do not.
 
 

No, unfortunately I do not play multi-player in Enemy Unknown or the new expansion to the game Enemy Within.
I just play single player, but there may be others although it seems anymore there is also that patch update seeming to be always had with some players because actually (especially in single mode) between different graphics drivers versions and computer some people can not get the game to work correctly.
The game works fine on my computer, but with only a certain version of Nvidia drivers (which they are screwing up lately.
http://www.guru3d.com/fil...videocard_drivers.html

http://www.guru3d.com/fil..._nvidia_geforce_vista_|_7.html

I suppose the game works (Enemy Unknown does with whatever version of graphics drivers that finally worked) and I have not played it all the way through yet. It may need some patches, hard to say.
 
Players computers do not work all the time, but if the game crashes to desktop for no real reason except code 0X00000005 then usually it is the graphics drivers.
Fun and games on the computer with nothing really exactly working correctly perhaps.
 
 

spacealf
About like this Cakewalk forum working today - slow!
At least for me.
 

I just noticed that... I went back to the updates and installed the 1st one. I may try the next 8 and then the last one by itself. I updated Flash Player to 11.9, I hope that will fix that.
I'll let you know if I have anymore trouble.
 
J
 

spacealf
About like this Cakewalk forum working today - slow!
At least for me.
 

Yep.  It's been pretty slow lately.  Probably started when they moved it over to that old Radio Shack TRS-80 with 4K of RAM they had laying around.

Mesh
Thanks Julien....
I'm on Win 8 and just did a clean install, so I'm not sure if these updates will affect it......will check on some these programs and see.
 
...

So far no issues on W8-64 ... but I have to admit I'm skittish about putting on the 8.1 ... anyone else?

No problems this end.

mmmmm..................I guess not. Windows Backup is different and just windows I guess.
I thought it was more, but all I need is Windows backup because I have anything else on another partition.
 
When you restore your computer from a system image, it's a complete restoration. You can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your programs, system settings, and files are replaced with those on the system image.
 
That is what Help in Windows states about a System Image.
Ah, have to read or look at it better, I guess.
 

CakeAlexS
No problems this end.

Maybe you should update your spelling and grammar checker just in case though?