Re: Security update 823559
From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 10/02/03
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:54:34 GMT
That's a good method!
This is useful information--it indicates that, in fact, WU is giving correct
information--the patch installer (I think not the patch itself) is not
properly indicating failed installations.
Applying the patch manually--which is usually an option--does the job.
I suspect the installer keeps a log which might have alerted us about this
failure, but I haven't looked into this at all.
"GB" <nowhereman@nowhereland.net> wrote in message
news:1cbf01c38822$fa9091f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Bill & Gary-I have the same problem with 823559. I have
> contacted MS Tech Support about it and have an open case
> currently. My conclusion, not yet verified by MS, is that
> it is a faulty patch. Until I hear differently, here is a
> solution posted by John on the windowsupdate newsgroup:
>
> I've figured out how to install the patch on Windows XP.
> After doing
> this, Windows Update no longer keeps asking for this patch
> to be
> installed. I'm not a software professional, so I can't
> guarantee what I
> did is 100% correct, but I think it makes sense.
>
> If you look at my previous message, I had found that the
> patch had
> installed the updated version of msconv97.dll in the
> directory
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\textconv
> but it had not
> installed the updated version of html32.cnv anywhere.
>
> When I ran the patch file locally, not using Windows
> Update, I noticed
> that it created a temporary directory which was deleted as
> soon as the
> installation was complete. I figured the updated files
> were temporarily
> placed in that directory. I opened an explorer window and
> ran the patch
> again. Sure enough, it created a directory with a name
> consisting of a
> long string of alphanumeric characters, and in that
> directory were the
> updated versions of msconv97.dll and html32.cnv. While the
> patch was
> running, I copied those 2 files to another directory. When
> the patch
> finished running, the temporary directory disappeared, but
> I still had
> my 2 copied files.
>
> The only place the patch had copied msconv97.dll was to
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\textconv so
> I copied
> html32.cnv to that same directory. Now, when I run Windows
> Update, it no
> longer asks for 823559 to be installed again.
>
> Since my system had been upgraded from Windows 98 SE to
> Windows XP, I
> still had older versions of the files in the
> C:\Windows\System32\ and
> C:\Windows\VCM\ directories. Thinking that it probably is
> a bad idea to
> have multiple versions of the same file present, I renamed
> them,
> changing their suffixes to .old, and then copied the new
> files to those
> directories.
> ================================end 9/3/2003
> post====================
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Read similar posts in
> >
> >microsoft.public.windowsupdate
> >
> >and see what the answer is?
> >
> >"Gary Thomas" <gary.thomas@ppar.com> wrote in message
> >news:002201c386f8$c9a9b6a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have installed this update several times but nearly
> >> daily I receive the new update available window
> suggesting
> >> I install this same update. How do I get it to stop
> >> popping up each day since I have already installed it?
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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