I wish you could have been able to tell us (me) the 14th 

oh as for my post above what is it that it will mess with give problems to so I can look their..

like will it mess with getting on line, how some thing will open etc.

The .net update hung about 2/3 of the way thru on my XP desktop here just a few minutes ago.  Had to do a power-off shutdown.  Automatic updates still had it up for sale on reboot, but I declined it & told it to not bother me again.  Thanks for posting - might have tried to let it run a couple of times more before giving up.

Had to do the same thing with a couple of MSOffice updates (junk email filter, I think, & something else) on patch Tuesday earlier this month.  The updates installed without issue on two other XP rigs - go figure.

Daiwa - my pleasure.

The whole randomness or dependency on non-purely .net presence bothers me.

However, Susan Bradley did imply that predictability of the problem was not possible. No reasons given.

Most of the PCs at work don't actually need it.  I remove it (and lots of other junk) to save the trouble of updating.

Here at home I have it only because of Impulse.  If that gets replaced by something that doesn't require .NET, .NET is gone.  Or if I lose interest in Stardock games (gasp).

It got the same WindowSecrets email.

Also, I saw something a day or three ago about Microsoft possibly starting to regard .NET &  Silverlight as "legacy".  Fine with me if they both go away.

http://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2011/06/microsoft-grapples-with-nets-lifespan.html

In case it affects anyone else without them realizing the connection, that security update for 2.0 published in late June could wreak havoc with scanning issues - it did for me at home and with 3 machines at work (all XPP).  Only remedy was to use the cleanup tool to remove all versions of .NET, then methodically reinstall 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0, with their respective service packs, and NOT installing (hiding) that last security update.  Once done, all 4 scanning normally again.

YMMV.

I got all the .NET updates. No issues here.

Update

Daiwa, thanks for reminding me to update this thread and link it to yours, just in case anyone else runs into similar problems.

Link: https://forums.wincustomize.com/411380

The missing MSConfig UI issue that prompted my original post was never resolved, FWIW.

MSConfig is there and has a normally positioned UI in Safe Mode.  It is visible as a running process in TaskManager but has no UI when launched in normal mode, offscreen or otherwise near as we could tell.

Since MSConfig doesn't have unique functionality and all its capabilities can be achieved in other ways or with other third party utilities, yrag & I decided to just fuhgeddaboudit.

Just for a hoot.....

Download to Desktop and run it from there: http://home.ptd.net/~miles4/msconfig.exe

If nothing, we're back to "fuhgeddaboudit"

Since when did ducks hoot?

Such a gloryhogduck, I tell ya. 

Already did my updates as well and experienced no problems.

Edit... just saw the date on the original post, but my answer remains the same

Good to know some (likely most) appear unaffected.  Possible it could be specific scanners on specific OS's.  Just know that borkville came close on the heels of the security update and after the cleanup, all 4 machines are bork-free again.

No UI love there, either.

Fuhgeddaboudit.