Re: Windows Update Incorrect?

From: GLH (glhoopes_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:54:51 -0700

Thank you for the explanation. If I accept Windows Update default
recommendation and install the critical update is any damage done? The
reason I ask is because if I don't install the update it is forever
appearing each time I check for new updates.

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
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> GLH wrote:
>
>> I'm running Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2
>> AND Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 SP1. When I go to the
>> Windows Update site and check for updates the following displays:
>>
>>
>> Critical Update for Office XP on Windows XP Service Pack 2 (KB885884)
>> Download size: 4.3 MB, 2 minutes
>> This update resolves an issue affecting only customers deploying the
>> MS04-028 update for Office XP on Windows XP SP2. The original update
>> appears
>> to install correctly, but it may not actually have completed. To help
>> protect your computer, we are providing this new update. After you
>> install
>> this item, you may have to restart your computer. Details...
>>
>> My question is why? I don't have Office XP installed on my machine.
>
> Most likely because you have this Office XP key in your registry:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\InstallRoot\
>
> For this update, this is the one thing that Windows Update checks for.
>
>
> Note that this registry key is not deleted if you uninstall Office XP,
> so you could actually get this Office update offered even without
> having Office installed at all, as long as some Office XP component
> have previously been installed (and then uninstalled).
>
>
>> Is this truly an update I need to install?
>
> If you "install" it, it will not find any Office XP installation, and I
> think it will set a "marker" so you are not offered the updated again.
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
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