Windows 8.1 Aug Update Released (KB2975719)

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(KB2975719) available as optional update in Windows Update.

http://www.eightforums.com/windows-8-news/51748-august-12th-2014-security-updates-windows.html

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/25343-windows-update-check-install-windows-8-a.html

 

[Atomcrusher]

@Atomcrusher

You post should be posted in the Windows Updates and Activation of the forum for better assistance.

Done ... thanks for the heads-up

 

[alphanumeric]

After this update, lost charging ability of AC adapter to my lap.

No error message in the battery icon, its just that its not charging.

I tried these:

Hard reset

plugged in with ac adapter only - could power on & use

unplugged ac adapter, put battery in - could power on & use

with both ac adapter & battery inserted and powered on - no charging occurring and level goes down on use.

Did a forced shutdown, booted up with ac adap only, uninstalled MS ACPI battery, shutdown, restarted with battery alone, again shutdown - powered on with both

did a battery test from System diag F10 - passed ok

tried different plug ports in my house with the same result

did a powerdefault from cmd

all the drivers are up to date from product site.

What do the indicator lights on the laptop show? As far as I know Windows does not control battery charging, it just monitors it. My laptop's will charge the battery regardless of whether Windows is running or not. I'll get a red LED color if its charging. Then a blue or green color depending on the laptop when its charged to full capacity. Even when the laptop is turned off.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Here's my take on the latest updates within Brink's news thread:

http://www.eightforums.com/security...2014-security-updates-windows.html#post414921

 

[visruth]

After this update, lost charging ability of AC adapter to my lap.

No error message in the battery icon, its just that its not charging.

I tried these:

Hard reset

plugged in with ac adapter only - could power on & use

unplugged ac adapter, put battery in - could power on & use

with both ac adapter & battery inserted and powered on - no charging occurring and level goes down on use.

Did a forced shutdown, booted up with ac adap only, uninstalled MS ACPI battery, shutdown, restarted with battery alone, again shutdown - powered on with both

did a battery test from System diag F10 - passed ok

tried different plug ports in my house with the same result

did a powerdefault from cmd

all the drivers are up to date from product site.

What do the indicator lights on the laptop show? As far as I know Windows does not control battery charging, it just monitors it. My laptop's will charge the battery regardless of whether Windows is running or not. I'll get a red LED color if its charging. Then a blue or green color depending on the laptop when its charged to full capacity. Even when the laptop is turned off.

As far as power led indicators are concerned, they show just as they would in a normal scenario.
It's just that my laptop is not charging, battery getting low.

I'll explain:

Only AC plugged - white led

AC plugged in with battery:
In power off & power on - white led



No amber led (the one for charging in my lap) anytime during several attempts.

 

[Rudy Mas]

Hi,

I had about 15 updates yesterday. So, I thought this was the big Update.

However, today, I got 11 new updates on my laptop, and one of them is +400MB big. It said Windows 8.1 Update.

When I checked my desktop PC, it hasn't installed this big update yet and it also can't find it. Is it possible that the special update will be rolled out in groups? So... not everyone or even every PC at the same household, will get the update at the same time?

I was just wondering about this, because I have 4 systems to update, and only 1 of them is getting the Windows 8.1 Update at the moment.

And yes, my systems have been updated last month, so it's all new updates that I received yesterday and now today.

 

[alphanumeric]

After this update, lost charging ability of AC adapter to my lap.

No error message in the battery icon, its just that its not charging.

I tried these:

Hard reset

plugged in with ac adapter only - could power on & use

unplugged ac adapter, put battery in - could power on & use

with both ac adapter & battery inserted and powered on - no charging occurring and level goes down on use.

Did a forced shutdown, booted up with ac adap only, uninstalled MS ACPI battery, shutdown, restarted with battery alone, again shutdown - powered on with both

did a battery test from System diag F10 - passed ok

tried different plug ports in my house with the same result

did a powerdefault from cmd

all the drivers are up to date from product site.

What do the indicator lights on the laptop show? As far as I know Windows does not control battery charging, it just monitors it. My laptop's will charge the battery regardless of whether Windows is running or not. I'll get a red LED color if its charging. Then a blue or green color depending on the laptop when its charged to full capacity. Even when the laptop is turned off.

As far as power led indicators are concerned, they show just as they would in a normal scenario.
It's just that my laptop is not charging, battery getting low.

I'll explain:

Only AC plugged - white led

AC plugged in with battery:
In power off & power on - white led



No amber led (the one for charging in my lap) anytime during several attempts.

I still don't think it was one of the Windows updates that did it. If the laptop is turned off, how could the OS affect whether the battery charges or not? An update actually damaging hardware is pretty remote these days. I wish I new what to tell you to try. About all I can think of is make sure nothing is blocking one of the battery terminals. Lint or paper etc.

 

[vrosa]

A wave of updates appeared today for me...



Scarry !

 

[alphanumeric]

I had 31 total on my desktop PC and my laptop. Both are running 8.1 Pro with Media Center.

EDIT: I did them all in one shot including 5719. Non failed to install.

 

[Zardoc]

After this update, lost charging ability of AC adapter to my lap.

Uuug, that let me scared!

I had already backed up disc image before downloading the update, have to try it soon or do a restore.

Note: now when i shut down lap totally & plug in lap with battery to AC supply, power led shows as it's charging.

But, I have not found any problem with power led even while system was on - the battery is not charging that's all, with no errors in the battery icon in system tray nor any abnormal changes in power led.

It's just that- everything showing up is normal but the lap is not getting charged.

Some laptops won't charge if you unplug and plug back in from from laptop input. Try to unplug and plug in from power outlet to see if it charges.

 

[Error80070002]

I have been having problems with this update since it's release yesterday. All of 6 of my desktops/ laptops have the exact same issue when attempting to install the update:

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070002: Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB2975719).

After carrying out various troubleshooting steps (including downloading the KB directly from Microsoft rather than Windows Update), I was initially of the opinion that it was a problem with the KB itself however I created a VM with Windows 8.1 and have since discovered that carrying out a clean Installation of Windows 8.1 and then installing both previously released and newly released updates, the KB2975719 update will install without any problems.

All of my PC's are configured identically with the only changes being the removal of all the pre-installed metro apps (no use for these) alongside the removal of the following Windows features [...]

Let me guess, you've removed the Tablet PC features from your system since it's not a tablet PC? Windows Update seems to have this obsession with finding a Tablet PC folder in the start menu of your Server 2012 (or whatever) machine, and if you've removed this completely useless folder then it won't install some updates. To fix this problem, go into \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\ and create an empty folder "Tablet PC", then reapply the update.

While you're waiting for it to reinstall, drink to toast to whatever cretin at Microsoft made installs on your desktop PC dependent on having a useless "Tablet PC" folder present in your start menu.

 

[CountMike]

Aha !!!! That's why I got an update for Tablet PC with last month's updates and I was wandering why, since there was not a single Tablet even in whole neighborhood let alone close to my computer or ever connected to it. It has "Windows Journal.lnk" in that folder and it doesn't lead anywhere. Really which dipstick calls my full size tower server case with 3, 22" screens "Tablet" ???

 

[visruth]

What do the indicator lights on the laptop show? As far as I know Windows does not control battery charging, it just monitors it. My laptop's will charge the battery regardless of whether Windows is running or not. I'll get a red LED color if its charging. Then a blue or green color depending on the laptop when its charged to full capacity. Even when the laptop is turned off.

As far as power led indicators are concerned, they show just as they would in a normal scenario.
It's just that my laptop is not charging, battery getting low.

I'll explain:

Only AC plugged - white led

AC plugged in with battery:
In power off & power on - white led



No amber led (the one for charging in my lap) anytime during several attempts.

I still don't think it was one of the Windows updates that did it. If the laptop is turned off, how could the OS affect whether the battery charges or not? An update actually damaging hardware is pretty remote these days. I wish I new what to tell you to try. About all I can think of is make sure nothing is blocking one of the battery terminals. Lint or paper etc.

Okay, I'll try that one out,

May be it's just a coincidence that it happened

 

[visruth]

Uuug, that let me scared!

I had already backed up disc image before downloading the update, have to try it soon or do a restore.

Note: now when i shut down lap totally & plug in lap with battery to AC supply, power led shows as it's charging.

But, I have not found any problem with power led even while system was on - the battery is not charging that's all, with no errors in the battery icon in system tray nor any abnormal changes in power led.

It's just that- everything showing up is normal but the lap is not getting charged.

Some laptops won't charge if you unplug and plug back in from from laptop input. Try to unplug and plug in from power outlet to see if it charges.

I tried the unplugging & plugging of AC adapter from plug point all these time,

But as you reminded of this one, I'll try unplugging DC jack laptop input.

 

[alphanumeric]

Aha !!!! That's why I got an update for Tablet PC with last month's updates and I was wandering why, since there was not a single Tablet even in whole neighborhood let alone close to my computer or ever connected to it. It has "Windows Journal.lnk" in that folder and it doesn't lead anywhere. Really which dipstick calls my full size tower server case with 3, 22" screens "Tablet" ???

If you decided to add a touch screen, and actually use the touch features, you might actually want to enable the tablet features. When I say "you" I don't mean you specifically, just a general you. That's my guess as to why those features are there and get updated. There are lots of stuff listed in add remove features that are disabled by default. All depends on what your doing with the PC I guess. Some are installed across all platforms and thus get updated, even if your not using them.

 

[CountMike]

Aha !!!! That's why I got an update for Tablet PC with last month's updates and I was wandering why, since there was not a single Tablet even in whole neighborhood let alone close to my computer or ever connected to it. It has "Windows Journal.lnk" in that folder and it doesn't lead anywhere. Really which dipstick calls my full size tower server case with 3, 22" screens "Tablet" ???

If you decided to add a touch screen, and actually use the touch features, you might actually want to enable the tablet features. When I say "you" I don't mean you specifically, just a general you. That's my guess as to why those features are there and get updated. There are lots of stuff listed in add remove features that are disabled by default. All depends on what your doing with the PC I guess. Some are installed across all platforms and thus get updated, even if your not using them.

Ok, fine, I decided to get a touch screen long time ago but some little thing$$$$ got in the way.

 

[Error80070002]

Aha !!!! That's why I got an update for Tablet PC with last month's updates and I was wandering why, since there was not a single Tablet even in whole neighborhood let alone close to my computer or ever connected to it. It has "Windows Journal.lnk" in that folder and it doesn't lead anywhere. Really which dipstick calls my full size tower server case with 3, 22" screens "Tablet" ???

Yeah, the Windows Journal (which I don't have installed) security fix needs the Tablet PC (which I don't have) folder in order to install.

Having created the Tablet PC folder, I'm now getting "We couldn't complete the updates, Undoing changes", a repeat of the KB2919355 fiasco that's been running since May of this year (see the thousand-plus message threads over on the Microsoft Community Forums for more on this one).

 

[midou35000]

Downloaded And installed Thnx.

 

[alphanumeric]

Aha !!!! That's why I got an update for Tablet PC with last month's updates and I was wandering why, since there was not a single Tablet even in whole neighborhood let alone close to my computer or ever connected to it. It has "Windows Journal.lnk" in that folder and it doesn't lead anywhere. Really which dipstick calls my full size tower server case with 3, 22" screens "Tablet" ???

Yeah, the Windows Journal (which I don't have installed) security fix needs the Tablet PC (which I don't have) folder in order to install.

Having created the Tablet PC folder, I'm now getting "We couldn't complete the updates, Undoing changes", a repeat of the KB2919355 fiasco that's been running since May of this year (see the thousand-plus message threads over on the Microsoft Community Forums for more on this one).

This isn't meant to be a smart @ss remark, but when you do non standard things to your OS it can have repercussions. It might be time to try doing a Refresh or running the system file checker sfc /scannow. That may put back the missing files and let you get on with doing the updates.

 

[Error80070002]

This isn't meant to be a smart @ss remark, but when you do non standard things to your OS it can have repercussions. It might be time to try doing a Refresh or running the system file checker sfc /scannow. That may put back the missing files and let you get on with doing the updates.

That's already been suggested, in infinite variations, in the threads on the MS support forums. It works for a small number of users, but not for most. The failure is much deeper than that, there are reports from people trying to update week-old PCs (i.e. fresh from the store, no changes made) and the update failing. The only advice still being given now, from both Microsoft tech support and MVP's in the forums, is reformat+reinstall. Since many of the users have machines with Win8 preinstall partitions and one of the cute side-effects of the 8.1 update is to corrupt the preinstall image, there are a lot of unhappy users...

 

[Error80070002]

Beware this update

For people who haven't seen the reports yet, this update is causing BSODs. So perhaps the failure to install is just your PC protecting itself from malware. Like the notorious KB2919355, we may have to wait until version 3 before we get one that works (KB2919355 went through three re-releases over a period of months as MS tried to get a fully working version out).