March 12, 2015

One of the operating system updates Microsoft released on Tuesday of this week — KB3033929 — is causing a reboot loop for a fair number of Windows 7 users, according to postings on multiple help forums. The update in question does not appear to address a pressing security vulnerability, so users who have not  yet installed it should probably delay doing so until Microsoft straightens things out.

brokenwindowsVarious tech help forums ares starting to fill up with requests from Windows 7 users who are experiencing a reboot loop after applying the glitchy patch, which is a “code signing” update that improves the ability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems to validate the integrity and authenticity of programs running on top of the operating system.

At this time, none of the tech help forums seem to have a solution for the problem. If that changes (or if Microsoft pulls and re-issues this patch) I’ll update this post with a solution. For now, it’s best for Windows users to delay installing KB3033929.

Further reading:

Microsoft’s Technet Forum

Microsoft’s Answers forum

HP Support Forums


174 thoughts on “MS Update 3033929 Causing Reboot Loop

  1. Lynsi B

    My desktop seems to be stuck in safe mode or powersave mode. Im running Windows 8.1 and I continue to see the same screens over and over again. I am also getting “error loading operating system ” Please Help

  2. gloria

    is the windows update 3033929 safe to download has it been repaired..no one seems to be reporting on it.

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