Day 63: Problem Solving

Today was a bit of an interesting day. Let me explain:

Over the holiday, a security update for windows 10 was released. This update was automatically installed of course. However, this update caused some issues to arise. With a few programs, namely Skype and GameMaker (and probably a few else) there was an "external exception 80000003" error that occurred upon the startup of these programs. This resulted in them crashing repeatedly and being unable to load. A fresh installation didn't fix it, and at the time I had no idea what was wrong.

After searching for a little bit, I found on the YoYoGames forums, that others were having the same problem, and it was revealed to me that it was the update that caused this. The directions one person posted were basically as follows:

>Boot into Safe Mode
>Go to Control Panel>Programs>Uninstall a Program
>Click view installed updates
>In windows updates, look for KB3132372
>Uninstall and restart the computer

That was the solution for me, and GameMaker ran just fine after that. Soon after, it was discovered that Justin was having the same problem, so I went to fix it. I messed up trying to boot into safe mode, but that wasn't 100% necessary anyways, just extra cautious. (I hit update and restart instead of normal restart, so booting into safe mode kind of failed). The problem was, the security update wasn't there, but I was still getting the "80000003" exception. After alot of error, and installing a different launcher for game maker, I checked the updates again, and thankfully it was there. One uninstall and restart later, everything is back to normal. Tomorrow I will be doing some work in GameMaker, probably on my GUI stuff. I don't know exactly what I was working on before the break, so Ill get back into that tomorrow.