cluberti Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Indeed it can, although without the cbs log it's hard to tell which. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I'd recommend you do not download hotfixes from any site other than Microsoft, there is no way to know what exactly you had tried to install.they don't offer normal link to them :/Windows Catalog site requires an ActiveX control to work, hence it requires IE. Since you have Windows, you should have IE, and should be able to visit that site in IE, download/install the control, and get the hotfix.I removed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Well, that wasn't necessarily the best thing to do. Not sure what that buys you other than a feeling you made the box more secure (but didn't). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 there is a reason trust me and is securer I'll try with portable version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 As someone who knows a bit about Windows Internals and how IE works on Windows (and IE internals), you should trust me that no, it doesn't. However, it's your machine, and you should do with it what you will - just know that no, it doesn't actually make the system more secure to remove IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 the security of IE with its Sandbox (when you leave UAC on) is fine.Btw, start a new topic about your install issue and upload the C:\Windows\logs\CBS folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doveman Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 no, this update seems to work for all editions. It is only labeled Enterprise because it contains many network related hotfixes which are relevant in Enterprise environments.So perhaps it might be a bad idea to apply these network related hotfixes to a normal, non-Enterprise desktop PC and it would be better just to apply the individual boot-related hotfixes?Have any of the individual hotfixes been included/superseded by Windows Update yet as they're quite old and I'm wary of applying them in case they undo something good that a newer hotfix has done (i.e. make things worse)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 the Update Rollup is safe to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doveman Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 the Update Rollup is safe to use.OK, I still prefer to use specific individual updates though. For instance, this one http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617858 is to fix slow boots caused by WMI problems and I don't have any corresponding entries in my log, so probably don't need it.For others, it can be harder to decide as this one http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510636 refers to svchost.exe locking on to a service but doesn't describe how to establish whether this is happening or not and therefore whether one needs the hotfix. Although my svchost.exe is dated 2009 and the hotfix one is newer, dated 2011, for all I know Microsoft have fixed the problem via Windows Update by changing some other files, making it unnecessary to update svchost.exe now.The hotfixes are also generally accompanied by this text "Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix", which is why I wonder if they might not already have been applied to my system via Windows Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted July 9, 2013 Author Share Posted July 9, 2013 Apply the rollup, run the optimization and be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I only hope for SP2 altho SP1 without any additional hotfix runs just fine for mebut if boot/logon could be 50% faster then it would be sweet ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 MS doesn't release a Sp2. This their new way to force users to Windows 8.x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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