MrWinstonWolf

Oooops ... shame on me! The human being sitting in front of my monitor made 2 (two!!) errors: #1: Misinterpretation of Security Bulletin MS06-054 #2: Writing down incorrect notes about the patches offered by Windows Update. Next time I will take a screenshot to avoid this. Maybe I should ask my doc for new glasses *g* ... Let me say it again without any irony: the patch KB910729 is _not_ offerd on a system without Microsoft Office. Thanks to all who tried to help me - I am sorry that I caused inconvenience. Greetings Reinhard

Hello Ctrl-X! Yes - it is so. I will agin recheck it ... it is also confusing to me. Greetings Reinhard

Hello alltogether! IMHO the command rd /s /q ... can substitute deltree /y ... So you have no need to grab out deltree from an Win 98 system ... maybe such one is not really easy to find <g> ... Greetings Reinhard

Hello alltogether! Has anybody of you an idea about handling the Sept. 12, 2006 patch for MS Publisher described in MS06-054 (Knowledge Base ID 910729) when _no Microsoft Office_ is installed on the computer? I tried to install this patch, but this failed. I received an error message telling me that the expected version of the product could not be found on these system. (It would not give much sense to post the original error message here because I am using a german version of Windows XP, the patch is also in german version). In general, I am not really wondering about this behaviour. The only thing I want is to make Windows Update respectively Microsoft Update "happy" - it shold not offer me this patch. And of course these shold be done unattended - I am a really big fan of scripted soulutions ... Your hints about further information sources are very welcome. Also it would be very helpful if somebody who installed this patch could dig out the information it wrote to the registry. Maybe it left its marks in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Hotfix ... Thanks in advance ... Reinhard

Hello MykeV! I'm not absolutely sure, but I think that i have read somewhere that at T-39 stage not all environment variables are set - especially PATH seems not contain the expected values ... Have you tried to call the 7za.exe utility with a full qualified path? Similar to this: C:\Windows\System32\7za x install\winzip\*.7z -o%systemdrive%\install\winzip Hope this helps you a little ... Reinhard PS: you can try to place a small debug message like echo PATH is set to ~%PATH$~ echo SystemRoot is set to ~%SystemRoot%~ pause into your decomp.cmd to check the environment. If SystemRoot has a meaningful value at this time, you could call 7za.exe in this way: %SystemRoot%\7za.exe x install\winzip\*.7z -o%systemdrive%\install\winzip