Misery loves Company - as long as the Company isn't Microsoft
Latest update appears to have broken *everything* except FireFox. Startup is a litany of 'The program was unable to start correctly' messages like the dark days of over ambitious virus attacks.
Ah well, at least I know what I'll be going when I get home - clean install, quick google to find out which games & drivers I'll be losing and then avaunt to the best Linux distro - thank goddess for Steam on Linux!