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Between a friend of mine who does IT work and myself, we've had 7 of these last week. All of them were running Windows 7. Very unusual since in 20 years I can only remember 1 or 2 of these - usually caused by a failing hard drive that corrupts the registry.

In all cases we've been able to fix it by restoring a recent backup of the registry.

Having this many all in one week, and right after patch Tuesday, leads me to believe it's a problem with a patch.

Seems like in all cases it only happens after a reboot, and most people don't turn off their PCs for months at a time, so I suspect there will be more of these.

As I said, just restoring the registry files from a backup is all it takes. In case this happens to you, here's instructions for restoring the HVE registry files from the backup Windows makes every time it successfully boots up:

https://www.sysnative.com/forums/window ... vista.html

The only issue I noticed with my Win7 rig that I game on, when I install patches and reboot, it takes a very long time for the pc to reboot. Last couple of times, I had to hit the reset switch after it remained stuck at "shutting down..." for over an hour. If I knew that these updates, which you can't really tell what they are doing, I would have turned off auto updates When they made the change from individual updates to "Convenience Roll-up". Maybe it's simply OS decay after all these years.

I haven't come across this error, but thanks for sharing the info.

My friend who's an IT tech uses this technique to fix the corrupt user, which involves changing some registry settings from Safe Mode. Me personally, I'd rather restore a known good working registry backup if it's not too old, but it's another option: