How to remove update

[Michael Satterwhite]

The latest automatic update is a disaster. Since installing it, it takes 5
minutes to bring up VB6. Just switching between windows can take 1 - 2
minutes. I desperately need to get this piece of trash off my machine.

One of the updates (and the one I suspect) is the GDI detection tool.
Unfortunately, I don't see any way to delete it.

Can someone offer some help? My computer may be more secure right now - but
only because it is completely unusable.

 

[Pete]

I have the same problem. The CPU is pegged at 100 %. I
had this problem with an earlier update and I found a way
to fix it. I had to hit ctrl-alt-del and then click 2- 3
processes and switch them to realtime That got me some
CPU speed back.....enough to get to the control panel and
uninstall the update. I don;t remember which processes
to switch though !!!!

 

[Michael Satterwhite]

I have the same problem. The CPU is pegged at 100 %. I
had this problem with an earlier update and I found a way
to fix it. I had to hit ctrl-alt-del and then click 2- 3
processes and switch them to realtime That got me some
CPU speed back.....enough to get to the control panel and
uninstall the update. I don;t remember which processes
to switch though !!!!

Although my machine is slow, that's not the problem. I can't see any way
this update *CAN* be uninstalled. The GDI Detection Tool isn't listed in
the Add/Remove Applications. It appears they've put this on our machines
with no way to remove it.

 

[davexnet01]

Although my machine is slow, that's not the problem. I can't see any way
this update *CAN* be uninstalled. The GDI Detection Tool isn't listed in
the Add/Remove Applications. It appears they've put this on our machines
with no way to remove it.

I read the KB article and it says that it runs once during the
install,
but if you want to run it again, you have to download the manual
version.
This implies that *nothing* is actually installed.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=873374
Quote from article:
"If you download the tool from the Windows Update Web site, you can
run the tool only one time. To run the tool again, you must download
the tool from the Microsoft Download Center."

Dave

 

[C. Wulfman]

Use this script at your own risk. So far I have used it in a lab of 25
machines and suffered no ill effects.

Reg.exe is a little utility from the NT4 resource kit.

The es650.txt file contains lines of the form

00-AB-D0-F5-79-6F|ES650-PC45|ES650PC|ES650|

-----------Begin script--------------

rem Kills the runonce to prevent error message from being popped up in
@echo off

set pwd=blahblah
set usr=administrator
set machinedatpath=\\yourserverhere\images$\dats\es650.txt
rem set machinedatpath=.\tempdat.txt

echo Press any key when ready to process ES650 or CTRL-C to quit
REM This will give a chance to bail if you did not want to do ES650
pause
echo Processing ES650
echo .
for /f "tokens=2 delims=|" %%i in (%machinedatpath%) do (

echo Processing %%i...
net use \\%%i /user:%usr% %pwd%
copy reg.exe \\%%i\c$
@echo on
echo Deleting the runonce key...
psexec \\%%i c:\reg delete
"hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\GDI Detect
Tool.." /force
echo Adding the GDITool=1 key...
psexec \\%%i c:\reg add
"hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\GdiDetectionTool\GDITool=1" REG_DWORD
@echo off
del \\%%i\c$\reg.exe
net use /delete \\%%i

)

---------End script-----------------