Haunted by win32k.sys

This error has plagued me over the last few weeks. I suspect it has direct relations to the recent windows updates which I have applied a few weeks ago as that is the only variable that has changed. According to the Microsoft support site at http://bit.ly/6mQgHr

 

This problem may occur when you run a program that dynamically creates and deletes menu items within a loop. If you use the keyboard to control the program menu, you may trigger a race condition in the menu handler of the Win32k.sys driver during the MNOpenHierarchyfunction call.

However looking back to the last time I ran into this issue I remember that I was running VMware Workstation 6.5 when my system crashed. Though it does not occur every time so it may just be coincidental at this point.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3…

Let’s just say that you need to build an image, reload your desktop, laptop, whatever the need may be…as the norm goes you pop in your XP media, install XP and at some point you’re ready to run Windows Updates. Well one would think to one’s self, I could easily just download SP3, completely bypassing the need to install SP2 along with other hotfixes and save myself a ton of valuable time, boy was I wrong!

You must have at the very least Service Pack 1 installed first in order to install SP3 as I had recently encountered. What? I was able to install SP2 after installing Windows XP and it did not require me to have SP1 installed first. What is the deal here? If you know the reason why this is, then that makes one of us!

So save yourself some frustration and have SP1 or SP2 handy…I wonder if slipstreaming SP3 into a custom install CD would work? Since I am too lazy to do it, I want to see if someone has done it or is planning on doing it? Either way let me know the outcome, I am curious to see if that works.