Microsoft endorses workaround for botched Windows patch KB 3000061

This month’s Black Tuesday crop of patches held more than a few surprises. True to form, my choice for the “most likely to splat,” the KB 3000061 kernel mode driver patch, repeatedly fails to install on many machines. Although the Knowledge Base article hasn’t been updated, Microsoft support engineer joscon confirmed a workaround for the problem on Thursday afternoon.

Poster CountryKING on the Technet thread on the topic came up with the original answer on Oct. 17, and it was refined by poster lord_vader later that same day. The trick is to manually delete a Registry key, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Publishers\{e7ef96be-969f-414f-97d7-3ddb7b558ccc} , reboot, and reinstall KB 3000061. The KB 3000061 installer recreates the key (with a different GUID), so you don’t need to restore it.

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