Vista - Vista may screw up your IPod - get the hotfix!

I just found out - luckily BEFORE it happened, no thanks to MS - that Vista might corrupt the data on an IPod as it has problems with IPod and ITunes.

If you have an IPod and have Vista, here are the MS Hotfixes to fix the problem. Just click on the links and download the fixes or Run them, as you wish, to install them on your Vista system. Make sure you install the right one, there is one for Vista x86 and one for Vista 64-bit:

Download the KB936824 update for Windows Vista x86-based versions.
Download the KB936824 update for Windows Vista 64-bit versions.

If you ask me, this is grounds for a class action suit against MS for releasing an OS that was not ready and causes damage to one of the most popular hardware peripherals in the world. There should be a warning that comes with all Vista packages and Vista-loaded computers.

If you had your updates configured correctly (to receive all updates, whether or not they are critical) you would have already received them...they were released in 2007.

Windows Update - Windows Automatic Updating

I don't know what to say. I just bought the computer a couple weeks ago, it is loaded with SP1 Vista Home Premium, I have auto-update turned on, and when I check it says I am up to date. Yet I did NOT have this IPod fix loaded or else it wouldn't have worked.

I do know that Vista better come out with an SP2 SOON to fix all these problems!

Check the "Change Settings" over at the left in WU - you may not have it set as shown in the attached thumbs - re: Microsoft Update.

I may be wrong but those updates should have been offered as options ages ago.

Yes I have those settings and yes I am up to date according to that window you inserted above.
I think the reason it did not offer me the ITunes/IPod update yet is because I have not yet installed ITunes or plugged in my IPod.

By the way, how do you insert images such as the above? Do you have to host them on the web somewhere first?

It's been ages since I had an iPOD that actually survived my putting it in the laundry....(I finally gave up)...but I do recall that everything had to be installed/connected for Windows to kick in.
Go to UserCP near top left of the forum and then Settings and Options > Edit Options and
ensure that under Miscellaneous Options > Message Editor Interface that you have selected the Enhanced Interface WYSIWYG option.
Then when you select Post Reply (not the quick reply) you'll get the Manage Attachments option.
Then I just use Vista's Snipping Tool to take a picture of whatever I want and "Save as" to my desktop and upload - simple!!

Thanks. I thought it was an insert image function, as in the little pic of the mountain above in the reply box, not an attachment function. I'll try it with the attachment function in another thread because I have a question about my System Restore box.

Good luck!