Shell32 Security Patch Disables TweakUI Function

Gianni · 2002/04/14

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The 7th March 2002 Critical Update (q313829) appears to corrupt shell32.dll, causing shortcut arrows to remain on screen regardless of which setting you use. To restore this file, run SFC and replace it with the copy on the Windows 98 SE CD (see More Information, below). A reboot is required. Thanks to John A MacPhail for both alerting me to the problem and for providing the eventual solution.

Thanks to Emmanuel Piring for providing the following information...

More Information

This problem also occurs under Windows NT4 with the IE4 Desktop Update installed. It may not happen without the IE4 Desktop Update since there is a separate patch for this under NT4. The problem does not occur under Windows 2000 using its version of the q313829 update.

The q313829 update for Windows 98/NT4 has version 4.72.3812.600 of shell32.dll. To fix the problem simply restore the shell32.dll file from the Windows 98 Second Edition CD by running SFC.EXE. Windows 98 SE has version 4.72.3612.1700.

Note that Windows 98 First Edition has version 4.72.3110.1, the same version that shipped with IE 4.01 SP1. But it will NOT work. The Win98/NT4 q313829 patch requires the Desktop Update from at least IE 4.01 SP2, so if you're still using Windows 98 FE (and why not) you should first update to IE 4.01 SP2, and then restore the shell32.dll file from the ie4shl95.cab file.
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