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Kb942840

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Christer, 2007/12/11.

  1. 2007/12/11
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff Thread Starter

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    There's conflicting information on this update:

    According to the article KB942840

    According to the details at http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB942840 (click the link to the left for the details)

    Now, which is correct? The quote above is a translation from swedish. Does the english version provide the same conflicting information? (I can't get Microsoft Update Catalog in english!)

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    H Christer,

    When I click on the more info get the no replacement statement http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942840

    This is from IE7 Vista if that has any bearing on this which I don't think is the case.

    Also looked at the versions for X64 and 2003 server - takes you to the same page.
     
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  4. 2007/12/12
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff Thread Starter

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    Hi Charles!

    Yes, that's the same page as my first link but when downloading from Microsoft Update Catalog, it says that KB917344 is replaced.

    It doesn't matter right now but if I can get KB917344 off of my "Updates CD" ... :cool: ... then unneccesary updates will not be installed on clean installations.

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  5. 2007/12/12
    Christer

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    I went empirical on the issue and rolled back (using Ghost) to a date prior to the installation of KB917344. Next step was a session at Microsoft Update and among all the updates offered was KB942840 but not KB917344. I take that as the information in the article KB942840 is false but the information at Microsoft Update Catalog is correct.

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  6. 2007/12/13
    Christer

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    It's more complicated than that. Today, I installed a system from square one. XP SP2 had IE7 and WMP11 installed from CD and also all known updates from my collection on CD. I skipped KB917344 and when I attempted to install KB942840 a popup told that the update was not for that browser. When I went to Microsoft Update for the first time, I was only offered the updates for WMP11 which I didn't have pre-downloaded.

    Conclusion based on empirical tests:

    A system with IE6 needs KB942840 which replaces KB917344.

    A system with IE7 needs none of the above updates.

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