patches from last 'patch tuesdsay' cause problems with Active Desktop

[Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]]

Hi,
I had a perfectly happy IE6 installation (XPProSP2), with all current
patches. Then after last "Patch Tuesday"'s round of patches ('bout 1 & 1/2
weeks ago now? the problem did first appear the next day; I have just been
slow in posting), activex controls (MS's system monitor) in a html page on
my active destop, are having problems.

define 'problems', ok, after fresh restart of my PC, the activex controls
have a tool tip floating over them that say "Press SPACEBAR or ENTER to
activate and use this control". I try to ignore this. Later I will notice
that the tool tip is often half faded on/off over the top of one of the
controls(2). Also I frequently notice that explorer.exe is taking 50% of
CPU time (I'm on a HT P4, so you could really call this 100%). clicking on
my desktop, and pressing f5 just restarts this cycle (ie, the tooltips
reappear, and explorer stops using 50/100% cpu)

I haven't yet bothered to try uninstalling the patches, as the WSUS is only
going to attempt to reinstall them ... (yes, I could as admin go and disable
the installation of that patch in WSUS and then uninstall them from my
workstation, but I'm more interested in MS fixing this bug they introduced)

I also haven't tried other activex controls, as I don't care about other
ones I use MS's system monitor to 'embed' a graph of my server's sytem
load (cpu, ram, lan, etc) on my workstations desktop.

 

[Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]]

thnx. fixed (by uninstall). I hadn't noticed that it was an optional update
as apposed to a critical secureity update.