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Hey everyone,

On our laptops running windows XP in a domain at work we are seeing an error occure after it installs updates from WU.

I cant see which update is causing the error and it is becoming quite frustrating.

I know it only happens to machines registered to a domain but not to ones in a workgroup.

The error is when logging on to the machine after an update where we recieve the following message:

Logon Message:

The system cannot log you on due to the following error:

The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect.

Please try again or consult your system administrator.

Well i am the admin and we are not running any scripts or anything when users log in to their machine locally, so i am baffled as to which program this is referring to.

For now, we do have a work around of choosing last known good configuration, but that means we cannot update the machines until this issue is corrected.

Thanks,

Rich

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I have just found that update KB867282 on its own makes Explorer.exe crash so you cannot open anything appart from through Task Manager.

I have found a way to uninstall the KB when this happens if anyone is interested.

I still havent found the one which causes this login issue though and really could do with finding out so we can take it from our WUS server.

Thanks,

Rich

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