Beware Windows Vista Updates

I had an odd and very frustrating thing happen over the last few weeks and ending yesterday. I updated Windows Vista on my two computers like I do routinely as well as some house keeping like backups and cleaning out old programs.

One update, not sure which one but others have had this, really trashed my startup.

First my loading bar, that little green bar that comes on your screen while Windows Vista does its thing to get ready for work, was pausing for a half a minute while Vista was laoding on startup.

I would have this half a minute delay during Windows bootup and it was annoying because nothing I could do seemed to make a difference. I looked at boot logs and several drivers were failing to load repeatedly and finally they would get together and work correctly.

Yesterday it got really worse, it would take three minutes for Vista to load and I got sick of this. After much internet searching they were complaining mostly about USB devices in a recent update of Vista, I removed all USB devices during startup to no avail. Then one post on a forum mentioned memory card readers as USB devices and my problems were solved.

I removed the memory card reader bay device I had in the computer and my computer no longer paused at all during startup. Get your aact together Microsoft and stop updating stuff that doesn't update things but makes things worse for many.

This was a very frustrating thing as UI tried to find out the cause of something that had nothing to do with my system but with something Microsoft said I needed.

Just goes to show that somethings are not what we do or have but its the other guys fault.

If your having computer problems, especially errors or something that says something, find out more about it on the internet. Type your exact problem in google and you can often find several people who have the same problem. To find a solution add "solved" to your search and you can get several cures, hopefully.