Update 917422 and The Oxford English Dictionary

There is a conflict between update 917422 and the Oxford English Dictionary,
Second Edition on CD Rom, Version 3.1. If the update is installed the
dictionary ceases to work! In order for the dictionary to again work, you
must uninstall update 917422. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Yes, unfortunately I have this problem too... doubly unfortunately, because
of a bug in System Restore with large USB memory sticks I have no Restore
History... and owing to a previously corrupted MS update 917422 is not
available in the Add/Remove programs list, even though the windows update
site says it was correctly installed.

The info on the OUP website (http://www.oup.co.uk/ep/cdroms/oed2v3_1/#3) is
well hidden... only deep googling picked it up

I need to find out how to MANUALLY uninstall 917422... anyone have any ideas?

"Van" wrote:

> There is a conflict between update 917422 and the Oxford English Dictionary,
> Second Edition on CD Rom, Version 3.1. If the update is installed the
> dictionary ceases to work! In order for the dictionary to again work, you
> must uninstall update 917422. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Yes, I have this problem. (And I also found the page at OUP that Julian
includes in his post.)

It's all well and good recommending uninstalling the windows update ... by
the time I noticed the problem my computer had already installed several
later updates, and when I clicked to uninstall the offending one, I got a
warning saying that all the subsequent updates might not work properly, along
with a couple of other programmes installed after the offending update.

Will a later windows update automatically fix this problem, if we just wait
for it to come along?

Or would it be best to uninstall (1) the offending update, (2) all later
updates, and (3) all other programmes that Windows says might be affected by
uninstalling the updates? (What a bother...)

Then we will have the problem of having to cancel automatic updates
(otherwise the duff one will come back again) ... but manually letting thru
the others would be okay, I presume?

I am leaving well alone, for the moment, and I will manage with the Shorter
Oxford Dictionary ... and Collins Cobuild (which comes free with the paper
copy).

"Julian" <> wrote in message
news:9332762D-ADC0-42B3-896F-
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> I need to find out how to MANUALLY uninstall 917422... anyone have any ideas?


http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms06-051.mspx

shows that kernel32.dll was replaced.


Find all instances of kernel32.dll.

Open a cmd window and enter

cd /d %windir%

and

dir/a/s kernel32*


Then do right-click Find (Up) 917422.

If you find it in C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$ (for example)
I think you may be able to run its spuninst\spuninst.exe manually
otherwise you will have to improvise. Also check what spuninst.inf
might imply in any case. Hmm... the implication of spuninst.txt is
that you don't even have to rename kernel32.dll during a boot.
(FWIW I would have thought it would be "in-use" and that would prevent it
from being copied to replace it.) In that case except for all the accounting
details in the registry which would be unchanged (e.g via spuninst.inf)
it looks as if it would be sufficient just to copy an older version of it
into System32 and DllCache.

<example>
Directory of F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$

2004-08-04 00:56 983,552 kernel32.dll
1 File(s) 983,552 bytes

Directory of F:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386

2004-08-04 00:56 983,552 kernel32.dll
1 File(s) 983,552 bytes

F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$\spuninst>type spuninst.txt
DEL "f:\windows\$hf_mig$\kb917422\sp2qfe\kernel32. dll"
COPY "F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$\kernel32.dll " "f:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll"
COPY "F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$\kernel32.dll " "f:\windows\system32\dllcache\kernel32.dll"
COPY "F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$\spuninst\spunins t.txt" "F:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB917422$\spuninst\spunins t.tag"

</example>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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