Dave-H

Hallelujah!

I just decided to hide KB4462174 in Microsoft Update, and lo and behold, when I scanned again both KB4462157 and KB4461614 were then being offered again! I assume this is because KB4462174 actually replaces both of them. EDIT: Hmm, I hid KB4462157 and KB4461614 and all three updates were then shown as hidden as expected, but when I scanned again, then only KB4462174 was being shown as hidden! Bizarre!

I sent you a PM.

Yes, KB4462174 stops Office 2010 working as it installs a version of MSO.DLL which isn't XP compatible. This has been an ongoing problem for several months now with several Office 2010 updates. References here to the Office 2010 problem are cross-posting with this thread here. As this thread is specifically for discussing updates to the operating system itself, I suggest any further comments relating to Office 2010 are now made in the other thread.

Yes, it's now been pulled! Hopefully we'll get offered a fixed version soon.

Yes, I just saw this morning that it had gone. I'm glad they acknowledged the problem and took it down from Windows Update so quickly, but I'm surprised they're still offering it for download from the catalogue when it's obviously going to break a huge number of systems! Obviously should have been tested rather more than it was. I assume we'll see a fixed version soon.

*update.microsoft.com* is already there in config.ini in @heinoganda's latest version of HTTPSProxy. download.windowsupdate.com isn't there, but I guess perhaps it doesn't need to be. That may be why it all still worked fine for me on Microsoft Update.

Off-topic here of course, but my Office 2010 works fine now with just KB4462174 left uninstalled. All the rest of the current Office 2010 updates seem to be OK.

KB4462174 does not appear to be another Japanese calendar update fix, it's a real security fix. Is there anyone here who is using Office 2010 on a genuine POSReady installation (not a hacked XP installation) who could make an official support request to Microsoft about this, while there's still time?! Although Office 2010 is supposed to work with XP, IIRC unfortunately Microsoft's policy is that once an OS is unsupported, all applications running on it are also unsupported, so I don't think there's any use in an XP user complaining to them. If it's not working on a genuine POSReady installation though, that's a different matter, for a couple more months anyway!

Yes, it worked fine for me as normal.

Yep, that will be the one! My two hidden updates (KB4462157 and KB4461614) in Microsoft Update have gone away, so KB4462174 must have replaced them both, with yet another non-working version! MSO.DLL version 14.0.7214.5000 seems to be the last working one.

I do hope so, great job Microsoft! On top of that, Office 2010 is bricked again as well!

I've had to do that quite a few times before with updates, but only on my netbook, not on my main machine. They appear to install, but don't as they can't replace some files, and are then offered again. Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks, actually https://www.ultrasounds.com does work for me in IE8! I have ProxHTTPSProxy running, but even without it, it still works if I dismiss the security warning message. With HTTPSProxy running, I do still have to dismiss the "mixed content" warning.

Thanks, we'll have to now wait and see what @jumpercomes up with.

Ah, so the e-mail I forwarded came through the second time without being corrupted by the addition of my signature? That's good to know! As a matter of interest @heinoganda, did you get a page with just the header in IE8, or indeed in any other browser, when you opened the source file I posted? It didn't display in Firefox 52 ESR for me either, which really puzzled me!

Oh right, I thought it had always worked for me, at least in Firefox. I've just checked and it's all working fine in Firefox 52.9.0 ESR with Flash version 32.0.0.114, and I'm pretty sure it did on all previous versions too. IE8 on the other hand has always had a problem in recent times displaying the version and the Flash animation itself on my system. I just see white spaces where they should be, not even empty boxes! Flash is working on other test pages in IE though.

It doesn't look as if that update will replace MSO.DLL again, so I suspect it will make no difference to the problem I'm afraid. I do hope I'm proved wrong!

@heinoganda Did the second attempt at forwarding the e-mail work?

Fixed what?

@dencorso I sent you a PM regarding this!

Oh dear! OK I've just forwarded it again from my phone with my signature turned off this time. I don't know if that will make the difference. I also didn't alter the subject line this time either (I added "(Test 3)" to it last time). I hope it gets to you unaltered this time! Cheers, Dave.

Just forwarded the blank e-mail to you @heinoganda. From my phone so Eudora won't corrupt it in any way.

Another strange one this evening. I received another e-mail from Sky, a marketing message, not from the forum, and although it opens immediately in Eudora, the body is completely blank, only the header is displayed! It also does this if opened in IE8 or Firefox! It displays fine in the e-mail app on my Android phone. Another one to analyse! BlankSkyEmail.htm

You need to find KB4462157 and KB4461614 in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and uninstall them. They can take some finding as the updates are not listed in order, but they should be somewhere in the list under Microsoft Office 2010. Office should work fine again then. Switch off automatic updating if you have it on or it will automatically install them again. Go to Microsoft Update and do a custom scan for updates. When and if it finds those two updates, hide them. HTH.