Monday, March 23, 2009

Microsoft provides a hotfix to re-establish Internet and wireless connections lost by XP SP3 update

June 27, 2008. - Microsoft has made a hotfix available for the loss of Internet and wireless network connections reported in mid-May by users who installed the Windows XP SP3 update. The bug empties the Windows Device Driver and deletes network connections. Most of the affected computers use Symantec security software.

Microsoft has not yet begun providing Windows XP SP3 as an automatic update via Windows Update. PCs that have particular security software installed could be prevented from receiving the update in the same way as Microsoft has prevented systems with certain AMD processors from receiving SP3 in order not to install a bug that causes an endless reboot problem.

Click here! to read an article on the endless reboot problem.

Click here! to download the hotfix for the Internet/wireless network bug from Microsoft's site.

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