New Patches Cause BSoD for Some Windows XP Users Based on the thread it appears the KB977165 has been narrowed down as the culprit. So the rest of the patches are probably safe to install.

After the splash screen, this blue screen pops up. I ran the dell diagnostics and there does appear to be a bad sector on the HDD that I'm guessing took out the registry.

The Blue Screen of Death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.

If you use Windows XP and haven't yet updated your system with the ten or so security updates that Microsoft issued Tuesday, you might to hold off for a bit. Turns out, a non-trivial number of XP ...