Re: PLEASE FIX BROKEN IE6 AFTER TODAY"S UPDATES!!!

Stephen;

Thanks for your reg fix on kb908531--I ignored it. Note, you did not
explain which HP device files need to be killed. I agree that is the
best solution, in fact I do not understand why HP has so damn many
little devices on a normal XP home computer--what on earth are they
doing? Regardless, I am writing to indicate that the Wilders thread on
the subject has numerous non-hp users with systems down, like
EVERYBODY, or at least almost everybody.

Best fix is a)do not ever use IE. b)completely uninstall KB908531
including a search and destroy of files, prefetch and registry
containing references therof.

Microsoft needs to go public with this providing a delivery date for
the repaired patch and a working uninstall method, which uninstall on
XP does not provide. Come Monday, this will be all over the tech
newsoutlets pressing how Microsoft is not paying attention to the
effects of their security patches on unsuspecting users. The whole
thing should not have happened and is a huge blanking screwup.

Michael Davis


Stephen Hui [MSFT] wrote:
Posting in a more official-looking way this time to salve PA Bear's
understandable skepticism. :-)



We've determined that the majority of the issues people are having with
MS06-015 / KB908531 are due to a bad interaction between the security update
and a software component included with various HP hardware devices,
including but not limited to printers, scanners, and cameras.



Here are two fixes which should fix problems caused by the interaction with
the HP software:



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