Windows updates causing LV2009 to lockup constantly?

[RTSLVU]

Anyone else notice this?

My machine autoupdated lastnight and today LV 2009 has "stopped responding" and needed to killed with the task manager 20 times already today.

I am not doing anything today I was not doing all day yesturday...

This is happening even when just editing a block diagram.

I received these updates lastnight and our system policies are set to not allow removal of any updates through add/remove...

Windows XP	Update for Windows XP (KB970430)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Office 2003	Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB976882)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Security Update for Windows XP (KB974318)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Office 2003	Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB975051)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (KB976325)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Security Update for Windows XP (KB973904)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Security Update for Windows XP (KB974392)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Update for Windows XP (KB971737)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates
Windows XP	Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - December 2009 (KB890830)		Wednesday, December 09, 2009	Automatic Updates

Message Edited by RTSLVU on 12-09-2009 11:28 AM

[LV_Pro]

Wow, not sure but I let mine update with those last night and may have a similar problem. D**ned M$oft. There fixes keep you computer from being infected by making it not run! Boy, if I get back to my other office and find that to be true I will not be happy, trying to finish another project for another customer by Friday. Had my computer lockup at least once last night, thought it was something else, but ...

Message Edited by LV_Pro on 12-09-2009 02:31 PM

[RTSLVU]

BTW:

LabView full development version 9.0f2 (32bit)

MS Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3

[LV_Pro]

Same versions as I'm using, will let you know what I find in a couple of hours when I am at my other location and can check out the machine.

[RTSLVU]

It seems quite random too.

Right click on a control, lock-up

Run a vi that has been working fine for months, lock-up

Open a vi from the Project Explorer, lock-up

Wireing a diagram, lock-up

I don't know what to do, I can not get anything done this way.

Thank God for the auto recover is all I can say...

[LV_Pro]

I worked for quite awhile last night without observing any obvious problems. That doesn't eliminate the update as being the cause, but I can't provide any correlation either. Sorry.

Good Luck,

[George_P_Burdell]

RTSLVU-

I have a few additional question about your setup:

Is this still happening? 
Are you using the Report Generation Toolkit, or calling into any MS Office products?
After restarting your system, does the problem still persist?
Are you calling into any dlls in your program with a Call Library Function Node?
Does this happen only when you are running your application or just editing in the environment as well?
Repairing LabVIEW may help this issue.  This can be done by going to your Control Panel>>National Instruments Software>>LabVIEW 2009 then select Repair. 

[George_P_Burdell]

RTSLVU-

I have heard of another person who this happened to.  I would suggest rolling back to the previous updates and not install this set of updates.  There is something within these updates that messes up LabVIEW.  My computer got these updates as well and I have not seen this issue.  Therefore this does not occur on every system.   

[LV_Pro]

Not sure if it was because of the updates but I had worked overnight on Thursday, had a bunch of changes to my code, and when I went to save it to my thumb drive for a backup (and to transfer it to my customer's computer when I got on site), my laptop froze. When I shut it down by holding the power button down it then wouldn't reboot. When I got to the customer's site a couple of hours later (feeling pretty sick at the prospect of having lost about 12 hours of work, not to mention a defunct laptop) it booted and I was able to copy the "stuff", but within a few minutes I got a "blue screen of death crash". The laptop was working pretty well, no particular "twitches" until the update.

Anyone have a FAQ or link to how to most easily, and safely, roll back the updates? The stuff I get when I Google seems to be related to driver roll backs.

Thanks,

[George_P_Burdell]

LV_Pro-

Take a look at the links below.  They should be able to guide you on using the System Restore feature of XP:

Windows XP: Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

How to restore Windows XP to a previous state
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

Wikipedia: System Restore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Restore