MS WMF patch bug?

XPHome SP2. Does anyone find after running the WMF patch at MS Update
(KB912919), that the Windows Picture and Fax viewer now causes Windows
Explorer to crash? The specifics are that if you open a folder with pictures
which is set to display as thumbnails and then click to open a picture into
the Picture and Fax Viewer then open to full screen (start slide show),
pause and then advance through a few pictures with the mouse, right click to
show the property sheet, close properties and then close the viewer and
immediately open a new picture into a new instance of the viewer and then
close it this action causes Explorer to crash. This happens every time I run
this cycle, the key factor is opening the properties sheet, without that
there is no crash. The event log entry for the crash is 'The shell stopped
unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.' The source is Winlogon. One
further anomaly was the patch was noted to be 196 KB but jumped to 409 KB
during the download. Thanks.


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Regards

Installing the patch produces no such abnormality
on the computers I installed it on.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Jack" wrote:

| XPHome SP2. Does anyone find after running the WMF patch at MS Update
| (KB912919), that the Windows Picture and Fax viewer now causes Windows
| Explorer to crash? The specifics are that if you open a folder with pictures
| which is set to display as thumbnails and then click to open a picture into
| the Picture and Fax Viewer then open to full screen (start slide show),
| pause and then advance through a few pictures with the mouse, right click to
| show the property sheet, close properties and then close the viewer and
| immediately open a new picture into a new instance of the viewer and then
| close it this action causes Explorer to crash. This happens every time I run
| this cycle, the key factor is opening the properties sheet, without that
| there is no crash. The event log entry for the crash is 'The shell stopped
| unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.' The source is Winlogon. One
| further anomaly was the patch was noted to be 196 KB but jumped to 409 KB
| during the download. Thanks.
|
|
| --
| Regards

so, normal people actually run software and work on their machine...

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Installing the patch produces no such abnormality
> on the computers I installed it on.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
> Microsoft Community Newsgroups
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Jack" wrote:
>
> | XPHome SP2. Does anyone find after running the WMF patch at MS Update
> | (KB912919), that the Windows Picture and Fax viewer now causes Windows
> | Explorer to crash? The specifics are that if you open a folder with
> pictures
> | which is set to display as thumbnails and then click to open a picture
> into
> | the Picture and Fax Viewer then open to full screen (start slide show),
> | pause and then advance through a few pictures with the mouse, right
> click to
> | show the property sheet, close properties and then close the viewer and
> | immediately open a new picture into a new instance of the viewer and
> then
> | close it this action causes Explorer to crash. This happens every time I
> run
> | this cycle, the key factor is opening the properties sheet, without that
> | there is no crash. The event log entry for the crash is 'The shell
> stopped
> | unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.' The source is Winlogon.
> One
> | further anomaly was the patch was noted to be 196 KB but jumped to 409
> KB
> | during the download. Thanks.
> |
> |
> | --
> | Regards
>

Hhuuumm .... no problem here with XP 2 Home. Could you some how have had your system compromised prior to the patch being released?

Bob H


"Jack" <> wrote in message news:...
: XPHome SP2. Does anyone find after running the WMF patch at MS Update
: (KB912919), that the Windows Picture and Fax viewer now causes Windows
: Explorer to crash? The specifics are that if you open a folder with pictures
: which is set to display as thumbnails and then click to open a picture into
: the Picture and Fax Viewer then open to full screen (start slide show),
: pause and then advance through a few pictures with the mouse, right click to
: show the property sheet, close properties and then close the viewer and
: immediately open a new picture into a new instance of the viewer and then
: close it this action causes Explorer to crash. This happens every time I run
: this cycle, the key factor is opening the properties sheet, without that
: there is no crash. The event log entry for the crash is 'The shell stopped
: unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.' The source is Winlogon. One
: further anomaly was the patch was noted to be 196 KB but jumped to 409 KB
: during the download. Thanks.
:
:
: --
: Regards
:
:
: