Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Tue Mar 18 11:48:00 CST 2003
system file checker. (Start, Run, sfc) 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.) 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. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:21 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Slightly OT: Installation protocol Hi William What's the W98SE utility called? Sounds really useful in a situation like this. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net> To: "accessd at databaseadvisors.com" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Slightly OT: Installation protocol Date: 18/03/03 18:15 ...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 :( ...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 :( William Hindman "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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Lacey <mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com <mailto:accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:14 AM Subject: [AccessD] Slightly OT: Installation protocol 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? -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030318/5b3ae82c/attachment-0001.html>