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Thanks for spotting this, Bill. I've put up some links to this topic in some Staff forums. This is really quite a critical issue, and with such a simple workaround, it is shocking that MS hasn't included it in a revised version of the patch, not good. Frankly, why those dlls weren't registered in the first place is a complete puzzle.
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Yes, Thanks Bill. 
That is quite unacceptable, but the article you linked to will save a lot of grief.
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| PCB wrote: | | and with such a simple workaround, it is shocking that MS hasn't included it in a revised version of the patch, not good. |
Agreed. | Quote: | | Frankly, why those dlls weren't registered in the first place is a complete puzzle. |
And I really don't think these "mistakes" are intentional - I think it is a lack of peer-to-peer reviews, inadequate or no quality control/assurance policies, and no program management oversight. In other words, over all incompetent management!  What I don't get is with all the scrutiny they know they are under, why and how are these examples of incompetence still getting out? Registering the .dlls should be a simple checklist item for the developers, as well as whoever reviews their work (that is, if someone does review their work -  ).
The stealth issue was bad enough, other than the fact that never should have happened, that is irrelevant now. It is likely the unregistered dlls would have gone out whether stealthed or not. | Mr2 wrote: | | the article you linked to will save a lot of grief. |
I hope but I already know of 1 case where the user, not knowing of this workaround, reformatted and reinstalled because repair failed. Of course, then he was YEARS behind in critical updates, security, etc.
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I agree, there's no reason in the world why MS should do something like that intentionally. It wasn't malevolent. It was solely a programming and quality control issue, but the harm it can cause ...
The true "crime" is not fixing it immediately when they learned of the problem. That was someone's conscious decision.
BTW, I have "stuck" this topic, considering it's importance.
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Greetings,
| "Bill_Bright wrote: | | I guess at this point we will have to wait for someone to stumble upon or recreate the problem, then see if the steps in that KB article fixes it. |
There's a missing quote from the command in step 3 of Method 2 - if anyone attempts to follow it as is, it won't work.
Unless they know where the missing quote should be...
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Is this still a problem? What kind of problems are users encountering due to the unregistered dlls, besides updates not working? Does everyone who does a reinstall need to do the "fix" as well?
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Looks like it hasn't passed completely. An OP in the HJT forum had to do an in-place reinstall. Over 80 updates would not install. I had him run the "Method 1" from MS (link in tetak's post above) and all updates installed smoothly.
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It just happened to me also. The "Method #1" from the link above did the trick.
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