Microsoft Windows Defender Beta 2

[Guest]

What can you do when you try to install it on a Windows 2000 machine and it
says the installation failed because GDI+ is not installed? I was under the
impression that the library GDIPlus.dll only resides in specific software
directories (like Net Framework and 3rd party software). When I try to
regsvr32 the file gdiplus.dll, it says that it is already loaded.

I am running Serice Pack 4 with the most recent updates as of today. Well, I
guess MS Defender IS a beta.

 

[Guest]

What can you do when you try to install it on a Windows 2000 machine and it
says the installation failed because GDI+ is not installed? I was under the
impression that the library GDIPlus.dll only resides in specific software
directories (like Net Framework and 3rd party software). When I try to
regsvr32 the file gdiplus.dll, it says that it is already loaded.

I am running Serice Pack 4 with the most recent updates as of today. Well, I
guess MS Defender IS a beta.

 

[SAG]

What can you do when you try to install it on a Windows 2000 machine and
it says the installation failed because GDI+ is not installed? I was
under the impression that the library GDIPlus.dll only resides in
specific software directories (like Net Framework and 3rd party
software). When I try to regsvr32 the file gdiplus.dll, it says that it
is already loaded.

I am running Serice Pack 4 with the most recent updates as of today.
Well, I guess MS Defender IS a beta.

Same thing happened here. Win2k SP4 with all updates. So I went to MS, and
downloaded gdiplus_dnld.exe, extracted the gdiplus.dll, put it in system32,
and Windows Defender installed just fine. No where on the Windows defender
site did it list GDI+ as a system requirement. Interesting.

 

[Guest]

I'll try that. I think .net Framework uses gdi+. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Tried SAG's proposal - installation started fine, then halted with an Error
1609: "Users is not a valid user or group."
Mystery: there are no users - I'm a single user on a single PC. My W2k is
valid (MS's own validification process always accepts it), I have a Passport
account (I thought I'm a valid user with that) and of course I'm not a group.
Besides, it is nowhere mentioned that such conditions of Defender
installation exists. Looks like it is hopelessly BETA, so maybe it's better
to go back to Antispyware and let MS sort out the bugs first.

 

[Guest]

I'm guessing here that Defender will not install if there's something else
running that uses .net Framework and an old version of gdiplus.dll. When I
looked around my hard drives, I found 4 versions of gdiplus.dll. Maybe just
putting a new copy in system32 doesn't help, because it won't load if another
copy is already loaded.

 

[Guest]

Well, I finally got WD to install as per SAG's suggestion. If you put the
version of gdiplus.dll that comes with MS .net Framework 2.0 in the system32
folder, whatever startup software that is using .net Framework will use that
version of the dll instead. If that doesn't work, use the Windows Task
Manager or a process viewer (like MS pview.exe, which comes with Visual
Studio) to find out if a version of .net Framework is loaded. There's also a
great freeware process viewer at:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

which makes its easier to search for a loaded version of gdiplus.dll.