KB 835732 Critical Update Problems

[Tim]

I have a Dell Computer running Windows 2000 Pro. I
installed critical update KB835732. After installation
and a fresh restart, when I try to access folders on other
network computers or servers, the explorer screen comes up
for that folder, but the screen freezes and never shows
the icons for folders or files. I have to end the
sessions through task manager to go on. The folders on
the workstation do come up just fine, and my e-mail and
internet connections work fine. I can ping the PC's or
servers I am trying to access, and they do show up in
network neighborhood, but none of the actual files or
icons show up. After uninstalling KB835732, the PC goes
back to normal operation.

Please Help !

Tim

 

[Guest]

I too am experiencing a problem with this update. I'm a
software developer that uses the EnumEnhMetaFile (Meta
file manipulation) functions built into Windows. This
update causes this function to always return 0. In the
Microsoft specs for this function: If the callback
function does not successfully enumerate all the records
in the enhanced metafile, the return value is zero.

This is preventing any application that uses this function
from printing...

After uninstalling the update, they can again print.

I don't know of any other way of telling Microsoft, so I
hope this works...

Ace

 

[Rock]

I don't know if you're running IIS or not, but I had a similar problem
and I had to disable IIS. I assume you're not running this as a
server, and if you are, I don't have a recommendation. If you have a
personal web-page, you'll lose its functionality when you do this:

Check the services to see if any of the IIS stuff says "starting"...

Start-settings-control panel- administrative tools - services

disable IIS admin services
disable routing and remote access (yes, your shares will still work
fine)
Manual World Wide Web Publishing service
manual Simple Mail Transport Protocol
manual FTP publishing service

Hope this works for you like it did for me.

Rock

 

[Geoff]

I, too, am having this problem, but only on our Dell Dimension 4600's
running Windows 2000 SP3. I can't seem to find a solution. It seems
that some conflict is hanging the explorer.exe process.