Disabling Windows File Protection

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Hi,

I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.

Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP) restored
5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.

Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off WFP.

Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?

Anyway...

Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
*automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?

SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)

Regards,
rusga

PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.

 

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:06 +0100, rusga <reply2newsgroup@nntp> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
>reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.
>
>Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP) restored
>5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.
>
>Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off WFP.
>
>Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
>Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?
>
>Anyway...
>
>Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
>*automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?
>
>SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
>SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)
>
>Regards,
>rusga
>
>PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
>system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.


See tip 8575 and links in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

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Is this another MS tabu subject as many people think so?

Regards,
rusga

PS: I know how to solve dll-hell... no prob.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:06 +0100, rusga <reply2newsgroup@nntp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 6 (vs6sp6.exe) smoothly (no
> reported problem) on a fully patched Win2k+sp4 server machine.
>
> Although almost everything was ok, windows file protection (WFP)
> restored 5 files in system32 to their primordial versions.
>
> Well, it seems that this service pack didn't temporarily switched off
> WFP.
>
> Why does MS keep doing this *stupid* mistakes in their patches/SPs?
> Is everyone looking at the NASDAQ ticker instead of working?
>
> Anyway...
>
> Is there any way of disabling for good (or at least temporarily) this
> *automatic downgrade* feature? One that works?
>
> SFCDisable = 1 (no go)
> SFCDisable = 0xffffff9d (no go)
>
> Regards,
> rusga
>
> PS: A good ideia was to make this WFP to be updated on demand (a sort of
> system32 "snapshot") and enabled also on demand.