Microsoft today re-released a security update that was pulled two weeks ago after users packed the company’s support discussion forum with reports of crippled computers.

The update, MS14-045, was originally issued on “Patch Tuesday” — Microsoft prefers the blander “Update Tuesday” — on Aug. 12. Within 24 hours, customers started posting messages on an eventually-lengthy thread saying that their systems, mostly PCs running the 64-bit version of Windows 7, had been bricked with an error message and ensuing “Blue Screen of Death.”

While some of the affected customers were able to regain control of their computers, others could not, stymied even when they tried to boot their machines in Safe Mode.

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