Hi,

I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.

Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP) restored
5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.

Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off WFP.

Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?

Anyway...

Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
*automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?

SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)

Regards,
rusga

PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.

Is this another MS tabu subject as many people think so?

Regards,
rusga

PS: I know how to solve dll-hell... no prob.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:06 +0100, rusga <reply2newsgroup@nntp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
> reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.
>
> Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP)
> restored 5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.
>
> Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off
> WFP.
>
> Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
> Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?
>
> Anyway...
>
> Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
> *automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?
>
> SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
> SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)
>
> Regards,
> rusga
>
> PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
> system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:06 +0100, rusga <reply2newsgroup@nntp> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
>reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.
>
>Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP) restored
>5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.
>
>Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off WFP.
>
>Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
>Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?
>
>Anyway...
>
>Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
>*automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?
>
>SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
>SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)
>
>Regards,
>rusga
>
>PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
>system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.


See tip 8575 and links in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
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