Some good news for a Friday afternoon, a hotfix from Microsoft fixed a mystery problem with my PC.

Now some problems I can live with, such as the odd memory leak (where software uses more and more memory and eventually has to be terminated from Task Manager). But this one was rather more frustrating. If I tried to modify any files on the network share the computer crashed, and I mean properly crashed. No blue screen but a complete reboot. Combine this with the fact that my roaming profile means logging in take around 15 minutes and you have a recipe for large amounts of frustration.

After a little digging around we found a solution. The patch hasn't been thoroughly tested so our systems department had to order it. But it installed without causing any problems and fixed the rebooting problem.

It irks me a little that I don't know exactly what caused the problem, but at least it's sorted now.