Microsoft Confirms That Its Secret Alterations of Windows Generate Problems
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Microsoft has been modifying files in the Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems without the knowledge or consent of the users that have acquired the products in good faith.
The Redmond company's incognito updates served both to XP and to Vista are an integer part of a long time practice over at Microsoft, targeting Windows Update and are as old as the updating infrastructure that the company has built for its platforms. Nate Clinton, Windows Update Program Manager initially admitted the stealthy updates to Windows but argued that they only benefited the end users and that they caused no harm whatsoever.
Well, Scott Dunn, from Windows Secrets, the editor that originally broke the news about Microsoft's silent Windows updating practices, proved the company wrong. Copies of Windows XP repaired via the options on the disc, prior to the deployment of the secret patches, failed to install all additional updates. Clinton subsequently acknowledged the validity of the problem.
"When an XP repair CD is used, it replaces all system files (including Windows Update) on your machine with older versions of those files and restores the registry. However, the latest version of Windows Update includes wups2.dll that was not originally present in Windows XP. Therefore, after the repair install of the OS, wups2.dll remains on the system but its registry entries are missing. This mismatch causes updates to fail installation", Clinton explained.
The sole explanation that Microsoft offered for the silent patches introduced to Windows Update in Windows XP and Vista was nothing more than routine maintenance of the service. The company explained that without the updates WU would fail to perform successful identification, download and deployment of patches served for XP and Vista. Clinton additionally disclosed a modality for users of Windows XP affected by the issue to regain functionality of Windows Update:
"1. Stop the Automatic Updates service. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command: net stop wuauserv and exit.
2. Register the file that is used by Windows Update and Microsoft Update. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type the following command, press ENTER after the command, and then click OK when you receive a verification message:
regsvr32 %windir%system32wups2.dll
Note: for x64 machines regsvr32 %windir%syswow64wups2.dll
3. Start the Automatic Updates service. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command: net start wuauserv and exit."
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Comments(5)
idiots pure idiots over there...i pitty the poor fools who waste theyre hard earned money
on microsoft products...maybe once they are honest you should buy and not steal...lol
thieves. back-door fly-by-night thieves always watching .
marius oiaga has done it again! repair installation overwriting newer system file with
old version has never been a new phenomenon. it was clearly documented in kb and msdn and
of all the applications that won't work he has to pick windows update? all system files
that was not part of the windows installation wouldn't work after repair, that included
wga as well. why didn't he say it's more empowering for customer? what regsvr32 does is
simply re-register the new component, i don't see what was the big deal about it.
he keeps complaining on this site when anti-microsoft articles are written.
check the god damn news, everyone hates microsoft, and microsoft are a trash company, the
only thing keeping them intact is windows due to all the game developers humping it.
too bad for him that these articles are speaking the truth and any non idiot can see
that these are the truth.
seriously samic... shut the hell up, you don't know
anything.
you're wrong. i'm not ms fanboy. you could definitely say i'm marius oiaga hater but
ms fanboy? plesssse.
i'm not saying ms is not a trash company. as a matter of
fact, every company produce trashes every once awhile. most people failed to see that
microsoft's biggest customer base has been, and always will be, the business desktop
market. take vista for example, most of the new security features is not significant for
home users, but as a developer myself, it's a quantum leap for application development
and it deployment.
if you had checked all my comments, you'll see what i hate
the most is fuds.
this marius oiaga from softpedia is a sensational hack. 9 out of
10 "news" title ended with a question mark and full of speculation.
not
believing me? try search "3 reasons why mac os x and linux won't succeed against windows
vista" and see how this hack had been hated by both sides.
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what the hee haw ?
By microsukcs on 29.09.2007 - 00:09