ReBoot Crash with KB918547 and EXPLORER.EXE installs

[Fredledingue]

Re-Boot Crash with KB918547 and EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1700.

So I ran these updates (separately) and the computer showed the message "problem loading ....exe, you must reinstall windows" then shut dow.

I fixed the problem by restarting in dos mode and copying gdi.ori to gdi.exe and gdi32.ori to gdi32.dll.

Same with explorer.exe except that it came after uninstall.

Looks like there is a defect in the installer... shouldn't be difficult to make a proper dos command to move xyz.ori to xyz.exe thought.

Just one thought, does the installer uses the default "Temp" folder to store files to be moved before rebooting, by any chance?

Edited June 7, 2007 by Fredledingue

[celtish]

... I ran one of this update and the computer showed the message "problem loading gdi.exe, you must reinstall windows" then shut down. I fixed the problem by restarting in dos mode and copying gdi.ori to gdi.exe and gdi32.ori to gdi32.dll

Thanks for this info about ORI files, I had been wondering what they were for. I recently deleted shell32.ori through my ignorance. In view of what you say I shall now back up kernel32, shell32, advapi32, gdi32 and user as ori files as an insurance!

[Fredledingue]

Please fix the in/unstallers. Thanks!

[MDGx]

I have added *warnings* to these installers to prompt the user to reboot immediately after 1st install [and not try to reinstall until after reboot].

Also added ",,,4" in the INFs after file names, to copy files even if pre-existing versions are newer.

Otherwise, if the user selects to *not* install files because they may already have newer versions from various other updates/patches [for example from 98SE2ME options 1, 2 + 3, which installs newer WinME files], Windows would lock up after reboot.

[thank you soporific for bringing this to my attention]

Text files below are very detailed, and they also pop up each time one runs these installers.

So... here they are:

* Unofficial Windows 98 SE 256 Colors Icons Explorer EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1700 Fix:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/EXPLOR98.TXT

Direct download [171 KB, English]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/EXPLOR98.EXE

* Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) Windows MetaFile (WMF) Security Vulnerability Fix (English):

http://www.mdgx.com/files/918547.TXT

- Windows ME Fix [399 KB]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/ME918547.EXE

- Windows 98 SE Fix [369 KB]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q918547.EXE

- Windows 98/98 SP1 Fix [369 KB]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/KB918547.EXE

* Unofficial Windows 98 SE Animated Cursor (.ANI) + Icon Handling USER32.DLL + USER.EXE 4.10.2233 Security Vulnerability Fix:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q891711.TXT

- USER32.DLL + USER.EXE Fix [418 KB, English]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q891711.EXE

Please test and let me know if install/uninstall ok now.

More files to which I've added these changes are listed here [see "6-14-2007"]:

http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=46581

HTH

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re-Boot Crash with KB918547 and EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1700.

So I ran these updates (separately) and the computer showed the message "problem loading ....exe, you must reinstall windows" then shut dow.

I fixed the problem by restarting in dos mode and copying gdi.ori to gdi.exe and gdi32.ori to gdi32.dll.

Same with explorer.exe except that it came after uninstall.

Looks like there is a defect in the installer... shouldn't be difficult to make a proper dos command to move xyz.ori to xyz.exe thought.

Just one thought, does the installer uses the default "Temp" folder to store files to be moved before rebooting, by any chance?

Yep, sounds like it's corrupted. That error message is known to occur if Internet Explorer is being installed and the Internet Explorer installation process fails.

Edited June 28, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP

[Fredledingue]

I would like to thank MDGx for the updates... unfortunately, I'm sort of afraid and not sure how to proceed to test them since I have the old "installs" already installed.

[MDGx]

All unofficial Iexpress fixes/updates have been fixed [7-2-2007 update]:

http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=46581

HTH