KB891711 & stability problems?
Hi,
I recently applied MS security patch KB891711 on a Win ME box. I immediately started to experience stability problems of various sorts.
On checking, I found that it had entered a task into startup, and was running something called KB891711.exe all the time.
(Mr. Christian, give that programmer 3 dozen lashes.............I think he meant start and run once :D )
Anyway, I killed the task and went into msconfig and removed it from startup, which resolved the issues I was having.
AFAIK this stability issue only affects Win98/98SE/ME, but the patch seems to be for most of the other Windows as well, so you might like to check it out if you have suddenly started to get problems.
I have just installed the latest version (v2.0) and the problem seems to have disappeared, and no strange program is running :)
So, if you are running Win98/ME and think that you have that patch, you may still have version 1.
Cheers
Re: KB891711 & stability problems?
Hi there,
You are talking about a v 2.0 of this patch but no details about the place where to get it since I'd like to get ridd of yet another process running at startup. :)
Now, looking at the version of that .exe running on a win98 machine this is what I see:
version 4.10.0000.2222
So, what's version 2.0 since I dont remember getting and installing another package for this one here?
Cheers.
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Originally posted here by nihil
Hi,
I recently applied MS security patch KB891711 on a Win ME box. I immediately started to experience stability problems of various sorts.
On checking, I found that it had entered a task into startup, and was running something called KB891711.exe all the time.
(Mr. Christian, give that programmer 3 dozen lashes.............I think he meant start and run once :D )
Anyway, I killed the task and went into msconfig and removed it from startup, which resolved the issues I was having.
AFAIK this stability issue only affects Win98/98SE/ME, but the patch seems to be for most of the other Windows as well, so you might like to check it out if you have suddenly started to get problems.
I have just installed the latest version (v2.0) and the problem seems to have disappeared, and no strange program is running :)
So, if you are running Win98/ME and think that you have that patch, you may still have version 1.
Cheers