Re: MS WMF patch bug?

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Installing the patch produces no such abnormality
on the computers I installed it on.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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"Jack" wrote:

| XPHome SP2. Does anyone find after running the WMF patch at MS Update
| (KB912919), that the Windows Picture and Fax viewer now causes Windows
| Explorer to crash? The specifics are that if you open a folder with pictures
| which is set to display as thumbnails and then click to open a picture into
| the Picture and Fax Viewer then open to full screen (start slide show),
| pause and then advance through a few pictures with the mouse, right click to
| show the property sheet, close properties and then close the viewer and
| immediately open a new picture into a new instance of the viewer and then
| close it this action causes Explorer to crash. This happens every time I run
| this cycle, the key factor is opening the properties sheet, without that
| there is no crash. The event log entry for the crash is 'The shell stopped
| unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.' The source is Winlogon. One
| further anomaly was the patch was noted to be 196 KB but jumped to 409 KB
| during the download. Thanks.
|
|
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| Regards

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