[252] in winnt
More SP4 woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Tue Nov 3 14:25:00 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 14:19:45 -0500
To: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dept-comp@MIT.EDU
Warning, editing the registry is a dangerous thing. Only do this if you
are an expert and understand and accept the consiquences involved. I was
unable to get to the web site mentioned, probably because Microsoft is
still suffering from the release of SP4.
-Jonathan
From Windows NT Magazine:
* PRE-SP4 HOTFIX REFERENCES NOT REMOVED
If you have already installed Service Pack 4 (SP4), you have a new
maintenance task at the top of your list. SP4 doesn't delete Registry
references to previously installed hotfixes. This means you can run
hotfix-l to list the fixes installed prior to SP4, and you can also run
hotfix-y to remove an old hotfix. If you accidentally remove a hotfix,
the SP4 files that replaced the hotfix files are deleted. This leaves
your system in a very unpredictable state.
To correct this problem, you must delete all references to hotfixes
installed prior to SP4. These references appear in the Registry and in
the system root. Run the Registry Editor and delete the hotfix Registry
keys located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\Current Version\Hotfix\<KBArticle#>, where <KBArticleNumber> is the
Q number of a Microsoft article associated with a particular hotfix.
To finish the cleanup, delete the hotfix uninstall directories in the
system root (folders named $NTUninstall<KBArticle#>). See Microsoft
article "SP4 Installation Doesn't Delete References to Previous
Hotfixes" for more information (if you can find it-see below).
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/3/34.asp
