Major issues with KB3000850

Just an update, another error message i have been receiving while trying to access things such as my computer is "explorer.exe failed to load server" i have made a second user to make sure this issue wasn't caused by a corrupt profile but the issue remains on both accounts.

Hi,

we discussed a way to get rid of this update here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2mosdg/anyone_knows_whats_update_for_windows_81_for/

Basically, what worked for me was:

1) Hard reboot.
2) Invoke Advanced boot options by hitting F8 immediately after the BIOS screen. If that doesn't work, you can try holding SHIFT and selecting "Restart" on user login screen.
3) In advanced boot options select last System Restore

Hi Smeyo42,

I had been following the thread on reddit after googling the Kb number. I will try the Hold shift option and see if it will allow me to do anything but my trouble is it completes the restore then gets stuck "restarting" in an endless loop until i hard reset the machine and then that unleash's a bunch of problems of it's own lol. Ah windows update patches.... they do test my patience and sanity lol.

I would really appreciate some insight or anything i can provide MS to find a way to solve this issue

It seems that this issue is caused by KB3000850 in combination with Avast Antivirus - as you already mentioned. That gives you some more possibilities to resolve it. I can think of additional 2 right now.

After hard reboot, try to invoke the blue "Choose an option" screen by hitting F8 immediately after the BIOS screen, or by holding SHIFT and selecting "Restart" on user login screen. Then:

• Option 1) Select "Troubleshoot"/"Advanced Options"/"Startup setting" to enable Safe mode and try removing avast in safe mode
• Option 2) Select "Troubleshoot"/"Advanced Options"/"Command Prompt" and try removing avast via command promt
• Oprion 3) [from above] Select "Troubleshoot"/"Advanced Options"/"System Restore" and get rid of the KB3000850 by restoring windows to state before update

Hope some of this works for you...

Yea i was planning on trying these tomorrow as i've lost patience after dealing with this problem for the last 24hrs. Hopefully the more people speak up having this issue will force either MS or avast to correct the issue in the long term.

I appreciate your responses so far Smeyo, i just want the issue resolved in a timely manner instead of a blame game between avast and ms since the responce given by Avast has been zero up until now =/

Just Spent my entire day reformatting my Desktop PC, as I couldn't access Avast forum to read if there was any issues related to Avast.  Spent last night, and most of today reloading software.   Want this resolved in a timely matter as well.   Very time consuming and annoying problem this has been

@Gav_B11: thanks for pushing MS to look at this riddiculous update.  I have experienced the same issue last night and almost wanted to throw the computer out the window considering it took forever to install only to screw up everything.
At one point I was almost certain my hard drive is toast since even opening up System or using Winrar would slow down to snail's pace and the HD light was almost solid.  I checked right away in Task Manager and Avast32 process was just hogging the drive.  It must be some compatibility issue where Avast if fighting against the introduced update changes/features.  Or maybe it's something to do with x86 vs x64 architecture. I am running Windows 8.1 x64 Pro with Media Center.

I wrote the same msg on Avast's forum just to get the voice heard:

Avast Forum

Like many others, my system hangs on shutdown.

What I also discovered, uninstalling bing bar, also hangs and doesn't uninstall.