Subj : Re: build-custom-DLL-at-install-time?
To   : Frank Haber
From : Rich
Date : Wed Mar 14 2001 10:10 am

From: "Rich" <@>


   These aren't custom built at install time.  In fact, the very =
principal behind SFC presumes that the protected files are unchanged = from the 
distribution media.  There are two different files of the same = name in the 
installation CABs.  One set is used when running setup in = some environments 
like from MS-DOS or a boot floppy.  The others are = those that are installed 
as part of Windows.  The KB article to which = you refer is describing a bug 
where the location of these three files = may point to the incorrect one and 
that if your installed version is = corrupted and SFC is requested to restore a 
copy from the CABs it may = grab the wrong one.  This looks to be a bug in an 
index file in Windows = 98 only and not Windows 95 which didn't have the 
feature nor Windows 98 = SE or Windows Me which had a correct reference in the 
index.

Rich

  "Frank Haber" <fhaber@speakeasy.org> wrote in message =
news:3aafbb0a$1@w3.nls.net...
  Well, I can understand your calling me on that one, since I was =
totally
  sloppy in all particulars.

  The diagnostic in question is SFC.EXE, not MSCONFIG.

  The custom-built files include at least two of these three:

  user.exe
  gdi.exe
  krnl386.exe

  One mskb item that references this is

  http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/32.ASP

  I have direct experience with two users who ran SFC, accepted its =
advice,
  and were snookered into replacing user.exe and rendering their =
machines
  unbootable.  One just swapped out his HD with Sony (laptop).  I don't =
know
  what the other decided to to.

  Yes, SFC's another "support tool."  It is, however, cited in many =
magazine
  articles as a kind of "poor man's Norton."  It's a useful tool to =
recover
  from bad installs, if you have nothing better.  It's a remarkably =
bugfree,
  if cumbersome tool - except for that one-time heart-attack-maker cited
  above.  Just say, "update the signature for user.exe and stop =
bothering me,"
  and you're home free for life.

  And I suspect the fault for the bug is shared with the OEMs in =
question, who
  didn't fully vet their installs with an SFC run.

  That enough chapter and verse for you?
  --

  -frank





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