Cleaning house for Win2k users -- refilling your HF folder

[fdv]

Now that the update lists are in place at my site (see the pinned topics), and given that Windows 2000 is the oldest OS with the greatest number of hotfixes for it, it's probably time for HFSLIP users who use Win2k to weed out obsolete hotfixes -- and there are a LOT of them.

The current Win2k list has, at the bottom, a list of obsolete fixes, and it's a long one. Since the list won't be retroactively tracking obsolete hotfixes, the best thing to do, IMHO, is for everyone who uses Win2k to delete the hotfixes in their HF folder, and re-download everything listed here.

That way, we'll start clean for 2009.

KB files to be removed / do not use

890046

896424

904706

908523

911562

911567

912919

916281

917159

917422

917734

917736

917953

918899

920958

921503

921883

922616

922760

923689

923694

924191

925454

925486

926122 (incorrectly listed -- you actually do want this one)

928090

929969

931768

932168

933566

935966

937143

938829

939653

941202

941568

941644

941672

942615

944533

946538

947864

948881

950759

950760

Edited December 15, 2008 by fdv

[Brabant]

A quick scan gives that 926122 is both in the "re-download" list and in the "to be removed / do not use" list. Or maybe I don't 'get' the purpose of this post.

[tommyp]

Brabant - You are absolutely correct. The list was updated and sent to FDV for re-hosting. The rest of the list appeared OK. Thanks!

[Brabant]

In TweakUI, New tab, there's a "new bmp" icon. See attachment if unclear. The Right-click context menu is OK (no "new bmp").

Apparently TweakUI still sees "new bmp" somewhere. This was also in 8e.

Edited December 16, 2008 by Brabant

[Ambassador]

Wrong thread perhaps?

[Brabant]

Not sure if we want to keep the new fileset thread alive. Most issues there have been solved.

Some things I saw:

1 There's a WINNT\ime\imejp directory. Did we have that?

2 There are files in WINNT\Help that I can't imagine have to be there. Like agt0410.hlp and CNTs and CHQs.

3 There's still a WINNT\Temp directory.

4 System sounds we still have.

Only the last two are known and have priority zero for all I care. Maybe Sounds a bit more than zero because the first event listed is called %ASTERISK%.

Edited December 17, 2008 by Brabant