Re: critical updates for xp

"paul" <> wrote in message
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> After downloading several critical windows updates, my desktop does
> not load. I have to use the windows task manager to run any program.
> Any ideas?

What symptom do you get when you try to start explorer.exe

Any clues in Event Viewer? (eventvwr.exe) Check all logs.


If you installed IE6sp1 before you upgraded to XPsp1
believe it or not you can try an IE Repair via the Run... dialog:

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance


However, since that is a rather unlikely combination
you can try manually simulating the main re-registrations
that an IE Repair would do for you using Method 1
from this article:

<title>KB831429 - Windows XP stops responding when you download updates from Windows Update</title>

In fact, besides being a very limited subset of the set of registrations
which we find listed in FixIE.inf it is in a way a superset of them too
since that file does not refer to: msjava.dll, oleaut32.dll or shell32.dll
(oleaut32.dll is referred to for the other OS but not W2K for some reason;
msjava.dll is mentioned in the KB article but I'm not sure whether
it even exists in XPsp1a; shell32.dll may have been an oversight
because it isn't a COM-capable module in the other OS.)

Note that an IE Repair would force the repair phase to be done while
the system was relatively quiesced during a boot. So it would make
sense to as much as possible try to reduce the dependencies on
those modules before trying to re-register them, e.g by closing or
stopping unnecessary tasks. In particular, I think you should at least
make sure that iexplore.exe and msimn.exe are not active processes.


In your case that last condition will be easy to attain.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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