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<DIV><SPAN class=929394017-18032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>system
file checker. (Start, Run, sfc)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=929394017-18032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>When I
got Windows ME Beta (3), the first thing I did was try to open system file
checker, and I got a message saying that ME 'protected' system files, so there
was no need to put SFC on Windows ME. (It took me a while to stop
laughing.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=929394017-18032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>SFC
not only checks your system files, but it will extract files from your cab
files, and replace them 'live'. A good example for that is replacing your
winsock files. In 95, you have to boot to DOS, to replace the winsock
.dll's. In 98, SFC just asks what files you want replacing. It
'unhooks' them, and copies the originals from the cab files.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=929394017-18032003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Drew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Andy Lacey
[mailto:andy@minstersystems.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 18, 2003
7:21 AM<BR><B>To:</B> accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[AccessD] Slightly OT: Installation protocol<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi
William<BR><BR>What's the W98SE utility called? Sounds really useful in a
situation like this.<BR>--<BR>Andy
Lacey<BR>http://www.minstersystems.co.uk<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">--------- Original Message --------<BR>From:
"William Hindman" <wdhindman@bellsouth.net><BR>To:
"accessd@databaseadvisors.com"
<accessd@databaseadvisors.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Slightly OT:
Installation protocol<BR>Date: 18/03/03 18:15<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...yes and no ...newer versions are supposed to
be backwards compatible ...and in the last couple of years, MS has been
pretty good about this ime ...but dll hell comes a callin' when third
parties screw with MS originals ...AOL6 was infamous for this ...they
changed half a dozen MS key system dll's without warning and the result
was often chaos :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...W98SE comes with a utility that
does a binary compare of system files and restores any that have
been changed ....WXP now has Restore built in to get you back to where you
were :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>William Hindman<BR>"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your
country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow
citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what
together we can do for the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy, 1961</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=andy@minstersystems.co.uk
href="mailto:andy@minstersystems.co.uk">Andy Lacey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=accessd@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">accessd@databaseadvisors.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [AccessD] Slightly OT:
Installation protocol</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I'd like to know from you who install your VB apps on other
people's machines whether it's normal practice to overwrite system dll's
that are older than the one you're sending out, without asking or telling?
A user here installed a demo which installed a version of oleaut32.dll.
Their version was newer but it stll messed up my Access app, specifically
where it talked to Outlook. Do I have a grouse?<BR><BR>--<BR>Andy
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