at the urging of a microsoft message, i updated my windows vista business last night. not only was the software not able to fully install, now, whenever i try to boot up, an indecipherable error message !! ocx0000034 !! appears on the screen.
i can not get the installation disk to bypass the error message. i can't get anything to respond. all i can do is turn off the machine manually, turn it on again—manually—and watch the same error message come up.

Are you sure it was a message from Microsoft?
Microsoft normally handles updates through the Windows Update
mechanism. Sounds like you got snookered by a Trojan.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/VanderMolen


"jclagett1" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:1d1c2a9babed8e6ae3acd496448d1347@newsgroup-gateway.com...

>
> at the urging of a microsoft message, i updated my windows vista
> business last night. not only was the software not able to fully
> install, now, whenever i try to boot up, an indecipherable error
> message !! ocx0000034 !! appears on the screen.
> i can not get the installation disk to bypass the error message. i
> can't get anything to respond. all i can do is turn off the machine
> manually, turn it on again—manually—and watch the same error message
> come up.
>
>
> --
> jclagett1

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:14:08 -0500, jclagett1 wrote:

> at the urging of a microsoft message, i updated my windows vista
> business last night. not only was the software not able to fully
> install, now, whenever i try to boot up, an indecipherable error
> message !! ocx0000034 !! appears on the screen.
> i can not get the installation disk to bypass the error message. i
> can't get anything to respond. all i can do is turn off the machine
> manually, turn it on again—manually—and watch the same error message
> come up.

The only "messages from Microsoft" I've ever received urging updates have
been bogus MS email carrying a malicious attachment.

Unless you are subscribed to Microsoft Security Bulletins, you never got an
"urging from Microsoft" to update anything. And those Security Bulletins
only tell you to check the Microsoft site for articles explaining what the
updates fix. There are links to the KB articles, a link to unsubscribe, and
a link to legal notices. No links to the Microsoft, or Windows Update sites.

And you have to go out of your way to subscribe; they don't come
unsolicited.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

thanks for responding, but unfortunately your theory is not right.
regardless of where exactly the message originated, i am positive that this is a microsoft caused problem. there are a number of old posts that describe the exact same symptoms my computer is displaying, and the posts also describe the exact series of events leading up to their computer's infection: they had just installed a windows update.

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:53:47 -0500, jclagett1 wrote:

> thanks for responding, but unfortunately your theory is not right.
> regardless of where exactly the message originated, i am positive that
> this is a microsoft caused problem. there are a number of old posts that
> describe the exact same symptoms my computer is displaying, and the
> posts also describe the exact series of events leading up to their
> computer's infection: they had just installed a windows update.

Could you point us to those posts?

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

norman,
thanks for your message, and to everyone else who may be reading and responding to it, but you're missing the heart of the matter: my computer is shut down thanks to an update from mircosoft, and everything i've tried to rectify the problem hasn't worked.
so please, anyone thinking of responding to my messages: ADVISE ME AS TO HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

Hmmm, if a recent update from Microsoft caused all this havoc,
it certainly would have made the news big time. I keep myself
well-informed on Microsoft-related technical news, but I don't
recall coming across anything like that.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/VanderMolen


"jclagett1" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:0e4e48fa4a266b88113afc64f3c955f1@newsgroup-gateway.com...

>
> thanks for responding, but unfortunately your theory is not right.
> regardless of where exactly the message originated, i am positive that
> this is a microsoft caused problem. there are a number of old posts that
> describe the exact same symptoms my computer is displaying, and the
> posts also describe the exact series of events leading up to their
> computer's infection: they had just installed a windows update.
>
>
> --
> jclagett1

for anyone who thinks that my computer problem is unique, let me suggest you go to google, and type in the character string coming up on my computer
oxc0000034

[let's call this character string an "error message", but don't focus on what this term, rather on the results of the search].

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:14:24 -0500, jclagett1 wrote:

> norman,
> thanks for your message, and to everyone else who may be reading and
> responding to it, but you're missing the heart of the matter: my
> computer is shut down thanks to an update from mircosoft, and everything
> i've tried to rectify the problem hasn't worked.
> so please, anyone thinking of responding to my messages: ADVISE ME AS
> TO HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

Your original post states: "at the urging of a microsoft message ...". I
merely pointed out that, unless you are subscribed to the Microsoft Security
Bulletins, you would never be urged by a message from Microsoft to update.

Then you state that lots of posts state that Microsoft updates have caused
problems. I know, for a fact, that I've only ever encountered one problem
with a Microsoft update; and it wasn't a serious breakage.

You claim many are reporting this problem ...

Okay, I've run an Internet search on your reported error, and nothing useful
turned up ... several people with a regular "Stop Error: 0x00000nnn", where
the 'nnn' is a three digit hexadecimal number, and your 'oxc0000034' is in a
subsequent string, thus:

| Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7CB0524, OxC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x0000000)

But the useful information is the 0x0000007B part, not the rest of it. And
hardly any information directly mentioning "indecipherable error !!
oxc0000034". Interesting. One site which covers this error has an HJT log
posted by the affected user, and a suggestion that he has at least one
Trojan infecting his system.

All else that I can find, tangentially related, suggests you either try a
system restore to the point prior to this update, or just plain reinstall
the OS from scratch.

BTW, which KB article did this mysterious Microsoft message mentiong? Was it
an email? Did it include the "patch"?

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

most frustrating about this dilemma is that i have had almost no luck trying to have the computer allow me to reinstall vista [or, for that matter, any other attempted remedy]. nearly every time i try, i can only get to the point that the following text appears:
!! oxc0000034 !! 6686/92731 (x86_microsoft-windoows-comct [inverted "L"] 32-v5.resourc…)
for some reason, i was able ONCE to get windows to attempt to reinstall the OS, but it told me something to the effect that the block of memory i was allocating was not NTFS.
this was the closest i came to reinstalling, and i have never been able to get past the error message since.