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It’s always a tenuous decision whether or not to apply Microsoft’s updates to your computer. Do you run a security-hole ridden unpatched OS, or install the shakey updates from the same lax programming that brought us the problem in the first place? I once had an update that crippled my computer for 6 months after installing. Granted it ended up being a hardware conflict, but the machine ran fine until installing their updates.

Now, we have something we can truly be angry at microsoft about: Their latest update, kb908531, can break IE, Office, Explorer, Excel, and several other programs. On my computer, domains stopped resolving unless I added http:// in front of it first. This type of problem is almost impossible to google; try searching ‘domain doesn’t resolve without http://’, ‘internet explorer http stopped working’, ‘url no longer works without http ie’, etc. in google and see how frivilous it is. Thanks to this digg thread, I happened to stumble upon this solution:
http://claydawg.helpdesk.olemiss.edu/?p=90

If you run Hewlett Packard’s Share-to-Web software, nVidia shell extension GUID’s, Kerio Personal Firewall, Roxio DragToDisc / Adaptec DirectCD shell extension, or SolidWorkds 3D CAD products shell extension, all very popular programs, microsoft will break some aspect of your computer. It takes a complicated registry fix (scroll to the bottom for a downloadable patch for easier updating) just to get your programs working again. I was running HP’s share to web software which caused this.
Thanks to claydawg for fixing this for us, and Booo to Microsoft for releasing shoddy software updates!

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