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- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mv94t
September 27, 2007 (Computerworld) - "The contentious stealth update that Microsoft delivered to customers this summer blocks 80 patches and fixes from installing after Windows XP is restored using its "repair" feature, researchers said today. Scott Dunn, who first reported the problem in a story posted Thursday morning to the "Windows Secrets" newsletter**, said that users who reinstall Windows XP with the repair option cannot retrieve the full set of updates from Windows Update (WU). The problem, he said, has been traced to the so-called "stealth update" to WU which Microsoft has acknowledged sending to users beginning in July… That problem affects any user who restores Windows XP using the setup CD's "repair" option, sometimes also called an "in-place reinstallation" because it reinstalls the operating system files without disturbing the applications and data already on the disk drive. Because repair is essentially a roll-back to XP's original state, the OS must be updated with all subsequent patches and hotfixes using WU. A system bought soon after Windows XP SP2 was released, for example, would need to download and install about three years' worth of updates. After a repair, XP defaults to the "Automatic" setting for Automatic Updates, which means WU is immediately updated to version 7.0.600.381, the version pushed to PCs by the summer's undercover upgrade, said Dunn. Seven of the DLL (dynamic link library) files that make up 7.0.600.381, however, fail to register themselves with Windows. That, in turn, keeps XP from successfully installing approximately 80 of the most recent patches and fixes… It's not clear how long WU has prevented post-repair updates, but searches through Microsoft's support newsgroups revealed questions about similar behavior as long ago as June. Responses by other users, including some with Most Valued Professional (MVP) designation – a honorific Microsoft gives to users who make major contributions to the Windows community – offered advice much like Dunn's. Several of them pointed users to the support document KB916259*… Microsoft was not available for comment early Thursday morning."
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916259
** http://www.windowssecrets.com/2007/09/27/0…ents-XP-repair#
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Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installation
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144/en-us
Last Review: September 28, 2007
Revision: 1.1
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Article ID: 943144
>>> Last Review: October 2, 2007
Revision: 2.1
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- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mv94t
September 27, 2007 (Computerworld) - "The contentious stealth update that Microsoft delivered to customers this summer blocks 80 patches and fixes from installing after Windows XP is restored using its "repair" feature, researchers said today. Scott Dunn, who first reported the problem in a story posted Thursday morning to the "Windows Secrets" newsletter**, said that users who reinstall Windows XP with the repair option cannot retrieve the full set of updates from Windows Update (WU). The problem, he said, has been traced to the so-called "stealth update" to WU which Microsoft has acknowledged sending to users beginning in July… That problem affects any user who restores Windows XP using the setup CD's "repair" option, sometimes also called an "in-place reinstallation" because it reinstalls the operating system files without disturbing the applications and data already on the disk drive. Because repair is essentially a roll-back to XP's original state, the OS must be updated with all subsequent patches and hotfixes using WU. A system bought soon after Windows XP SP2 was released, for example, would need to download and install about three years' worth of updates. After a repair, XP defaults to the "Automatic" setting for Automatic Updates, which means WU is immediately updated to version 7.0.600.381, the version pushed to PCs by the summer's undercover upgrade, said Dunn. Seven of the DLL (dynamic link library) files that make up 7.0.600.381, however, fail to register themselves with Windows. That, in turn, keeps XP from successfully installing approximately 80 of the most recent patches and fixes… It's not clear how long WU has prevented post-repair updates, but searches through Microsoft's support newsgroups revealed questions about similar behavior as long ago as June. Responses by other users, including some with Most Valued Professional (MVP) designation – a honorific Microsoft gives to users who make major contributions to the Windows community – offered advice much like Dunn's. Several of them pointed users to the support document KB916259*… Microsoft was not available for comment early Thursday morning."
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916259
** http://www.windowssecrets.com/2007/09/27/0…ents-XP-repair#
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Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installation
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144/en-us
Last Review: September 28, 2007
Revision: 1.1
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Article ID: 943144
>>> Last Review: October 2, 2007
Revision: 2.1
.