For whatever its worth

Mate rang me yesterday....his Outlook was crashing....

Without being aware of the posted issue I simply told him to uninstall the most recent Windows updates...

Either I really know Windows....or I'm psychic...;p

Both most likely.

Thanks Ross. I haven't had a problem but going to get rid of that KB 3097877 before I do.

You know what is really weird? When I woke up the first thing I did was install today's Windows updates. Only after rebooting did I become aware of Winstep applications crashing left and right via the Winstep Support email and Uninstall Surveys.

I immediately went into emergency mode until I was able to figure out that the culprit had been the Windows Updates and that the problem was not affecting just Winstep applications.

But the weird part here is: even though I did see my Outlook 2003 (yes, 2003, don't laugh) crash exactly once, I was unable to reproduce the Winstep crashes other users were experiencing on ANY of my machines here. No crash. Nothing. Zero. Zilch.

And even knowing that the problem is Microsoft's responsibility and that in reality there is nothing to fix, it still irks me that I am not experiencing those crashes too. It irks me because, if I was, at least I would have been able to pin-point exactly where the rogue update was causing a problem (and perhaps come up with a work-around/fix for when (if) it happens again).

Yep, hard to fix something when you aren't having the problem. BTW, winstep works. Wanted to let you know winstep working fine as as is everything else. One would think it would affect everyone but it doesn't. 

Now you can copy the Microsoft external link about and send it to all that keep emailing you. 

Even weirder is that none of my apps are affected. Objectdock, Winstep, everything is working just fine. Maybe because its not affecting Win 8.1, only Win 7.

Nope...apparently it affects all of them....but just not always everyone.

7....8...8.1...10...

That's the weird part.