re: XP2: The ordinal 233 could not be located-SHDOCVW.DLL
Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 12:59 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve A.
(1 messages posted)
Would you please be so kind as to tell me where you found the WindowsUpdatesList
program? Thanks!
On Friday, August 12, 2005 at 4:28 am, Timber Wolf wrote:
>I had the same problem with 2003 Server.
>Fixed it and I present my theory on how and why...
>
>I used a program called "WindowsUpdatesList"
>It was free and showed all installed updates with there install date and listed
the
>files. I found that KB883939 contained the file SHDOCVW.dll in it. It may/may-not
>also be present in SP1 for Server 2003, which I consider to be equivilent to SP2
>for XP since they came out around the same time.
>
>That update can't be removed through add remove although it dose show up. I right
>clicked it and hit properties in the WinUpdatesList program that I downloaded for
>free and it told me where to find the uninstall.
>
>C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB883939$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
>(remember this is server, xp may be different)
>
>I removed it by runing that exe and REBOOTED
>
>Then the server booted to reveal that it was infact already SP1 even though it was
>not before the reboot.
>
>I suspect that KB883939 was installed and the server was not rebooted then automatic
>updates were enabled and the server was allowed to do it's thing. SP1 (SP2 in case
>of XP) was installed over top and rebooted but there may have been a problem finishing
>the setup for SP1. It is also possible that it just couldn't finish until KB883939
>was removed.
>
>Unfortunutly as you can see there is pleny of room here for experamentation however
>MY server is working...
>
>I suspect this is the pure result of not rebooting between / after HotFixes and
Service
>Packs that call for a Reboot.
>
>Just a theory.
>
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