Question regarding latest Windows Update?

Hi,

I read online that there is a windows update that has caused errors with some peoples computers, and that they are being locked out of it with a BSOD Stop:0x00000050 error. My computer had this problem and luckily I was able to fix it with the following solution:



1. Boot from your Windows XP CD and start the recovery console. You may need to press F6 while RC loads in order to load SATA drivers; you will then have a c:\WINDOWS console prompt.



2. Type: CD $NtUninstallKB977165$\spuninst (this is the update I had to uninstall to get out of the boot loop, other updates may be uninstalled by changing the directory name to $NtUninstallKBCODE$, where KBCODE is the KB code)



3. Type: BATCH spuninst.txt



4. Type: exit



However, now that I have disabled automatic updates because of this faulty one, (and had to get rid of it), I was wondering how I would know when it is ok to turn the automatic updates back on. There has been no information provided for this topic by Microsoft, and now the computer will have to remain not updated and vulnerable....... any information is helpful.Question regarding latest Windows Update?
This happened to me too. Well not exactly, it would just boot into a blank screen with a curser. Luckily I found this file on the internet that fixed the problem for me.

http://pxnow.prevx.com/zeroL/fixShell.ex

I would run that file before doing the update.

EDIT

To be honest, I'm really not sure what that file did. All I know is that it worked, whatever it did...My guess is it fixed the bug in the update.