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Yet another reason to ALWAYS turn off automatic Windows updates

Microsoft have done it again – an update the creates a BSOD error “Stop 0x50 in Win32k.sys” (image below)

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13391/20140820/bsod-gives-microsoft-blues-faulty-patch-tuesday-update-yanked.htm

 

The fix is relatively simple. Boot into the receovery partition, or another partition such as an install disk, open a command prompt and run

del %windir%\system32\fntcache.dat

More info on Microsoft’s KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2982791

 
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