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Hooray for TheJoker !!
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 , bless his pea-pickin heart, sent me his good copy of MSHTML.DLL, just before going to bed last nite, in response to my email/IMs .. and it worked!
Strangely, I used "COPYLOCK" utility to replace MSHTML.DLL in my 'System32" folder {after first backing up my copy into MSHTML.BAK}; and it didn't require any reboot! Apparently the file isn't held open while an IE window is not open?
Anyway, it worked, no more scrollbar problem for me. I'm going to apply this fix to my other computers too. 
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 antiseriousThe Future ain't what it used to bePremium
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... randy, that's the dll I'm using - can you get TechNet to work? ...
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said by antiserious:
... randy, that's the dll I'm using - can you get TechNet to work? ...
TechNet works just fine: BUT .. shortly after replacing my MSHTML.DLL with TheJoker's version, I got a popup in SysTray notifying me of the above update {see pic} .. which MAY blow R2's theory that XP doesn't know or record in the Registry what version of MSHTML.DLL you're using ?? I will just ignore the alert for this "update" for now, I guess ,, until MS fixes it. Or, I may just uninstall and ignore it entirely!
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BUT .. shortly after replacing my MSHTML.DLL with TheJoker's version, I got a popup in SysTray notifying me of the above update {see pic} .. which MAY blow R2's theory that XP doesn't know or record in the Registry what version of MSHTML.DLL you're using ??
R2 as I said in IM to you: No sooner had I done the same replacement on my son's Win98SE box last nite, that this morning the "popup" was there directing me to Critical Updates: same behavior as my XP machine -- it **IS** aware, in both XP and 98SE, when you change the MSHTML.DLL file!
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 R2R NotPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-18
Long Beach, CA
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... it **IS** aware, in both XP and 98SE, when you change the MSHTML.DLL file!
Not necessarily... I don't believe the OS sent you that message -- instead it likely came from the Windows Update site (I suspect you use that annoying WU notification service). Given the track record of WU figuring out what updates you need, I would not believe that message. WU does NOT scan each and every one of your DLL's to determine if you need an update. That would be too time consuming. It looks for other markers.
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For example, I am sitting behind a Win98 box that is NOT updated -- yet Windows Update tells me I have no critical updates. Ooops. |
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 TheJokerPremium,VIP,MVM
join:2001-04-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:5 | reply to Randy Bell
said by Randy Bell:
TheJoker , bless his pea-pickin heart, sent me his good copy of MSHTML.DLL, just before going to bed last nite, in response to my email/IMs .. and it worked!
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Anyway, it worked, no more scrollbar problem for me. I'm going to apply this fix to my other computers too.
Since it seems to fix the scroll problem if you replace that file after the update, some questions them come to mind:
1. Does replacing that file return you to the same vulnerability that the update was supposed to fix?
2. Does it create another as yet unknown vulnerability from the mix of file versions.
3. Could the mix of file versions that weren't intended to be together potentially create a system instabilty?
The unknowns make it difficult to decide whether to install the update and replace that one file, or to not even install the update at all (assuming the scrolling problem is personally annoying enough to consider not installing the update and live with the vulnerability until the update is re-released working properly).
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R2R NotPremium,MVM
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Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | Humorously, as I implied, I got the 6.0.2734.1600 file from Microsoft inside a q824145.exe update file just two days ago.
So... does it fix the Security problems with MSHTML.DLL?? I don't know, but one would hope that it does... Given the fact that MS issued multiple files with this update -- and NO WHERE on the Microsoft web site is this admitted -- who bloody knows! |
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