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Update for Windows 2000 (KB904368)

Overview

Install this update to resolve an issue in which Microsoft Office programs may stop responding when you try to save new files to a floppy disk drive after installing Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

Update for Windows XP (KB906569)

Install this update to add a Tools tab to the System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe). The Tools tab will allow further diagnostic tools to be launched from within the System Configuration Utility. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Update for Windows XP (KB904412) - English

File Name: WindowsXP-KB904412-v2-x86-ENU.exe

Date Published: 10/7/2005

Download Size: 521 KB

Overview

Install this update to address several possible issues associated with connecting a Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) device, such as an IEEE 1394 device, to a Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer.

Microsoft has just recently announced 26 new fixes to go into Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). Here's just a sample of what's going to be fixed. Click the SP3 link below to see all of this 26 fixes:

* WinINet ignores the policies that you set when you create a custom administrative template file in Windows XP with Service Pack 2

* The printer display panel does not display the complete document name if the document name is a Multi-Byte Character Set string

* Programs may not be able to make a telephone connection after you disconnect and then reconnect a serial cable in Windows XP with Service Pack 2

* Your CD-RW drive is not recognized as a rewritable drive in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

* A Windows XP-based computer may stop responding when you disconnect a mobile device

http://www.thehotfix.net/sp3.html

Windows Media Connect 2.0

Installing Windows? Media Connect enables you to deliver music, photos, and videos that reside on your Windows XP PC to devices that support the uPnP protocol. This includes digital audio receivers, connected DVD players, set-top boxes and more. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

Update for Windows 2000 (KB908506) - English

Date Published:10/19/2005

Download Size:1231 KB

Overview

Install this update to address an issue on computers running Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in which clients accessing a print device attached to a print server are no longer able to print when using the Lexmark Monolithic PCL driver after installing security bulletin MS05-043 (KB896423).

Has Microsoft an url for that? If not, then forget about it! The same as SP3......also not official..

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Not to get to far off subject.. But, dont want them.. Then dotn use them..

They refer to it on several sites as "Unofficial SP3".. right there.. "Unofficial"... 2nd, how many service packs have you installed/slipstreamed or for that matter even downloaded in your life? Last I check service packs tend to be one (relatively) large signed exe.. Not a rar file containing many many exes.

BTW, want to check if a hotfix exists.. Take this url

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890582/EN-US/

replace 890582 with whatever the kb number in the file name is.

So, for this one with the updated shell32.dll file we get....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906472/EN-US/

If it is something effecting you.. try it at you own risk just like it says at the bottom of the page at that url.. You can not donwload the unofficial ones from MS without getting ahold of them and giving you a temporary download link. That is why he hosted it on rapidshare so we dont all have to contact them if we want to give it a try.

BTW (again), thanks Knacki99 (and all other for posting info regarding new hotfixes. The information for unnofficial ones that are not on windows update can be a pain to find on Microsoft's technet..

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)

The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 redistributable package installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed to target the .NET Framework v2.0.

The .NET Framework version 2.0 improves scalability and performance of applications with improved caching, application deployment and updating with ClickOnce, support for the broadest array of browsers and devices with ASP.NET 2.0 controls and services. For more information on the .NET Framework 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

FIX: Some portable devices may take 30 seconds or longer to start playing back a piece of content when you play subscription content that is protected by Windows Media DRM that uses chained licenses

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;902344. Direct Download link is in the article.

the_guy

Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP

The Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet adds a new 'Color' item to the Windows control panel, providing a single place to view and edit color management settings in Windows XP. Using it, you can install and uninstall color profiles, change color profile associations for displays, printers and scanners, view detailed properties for color profiles (including a 3D rendering of the color space gamut), and rename color profiles, keeping the filenames and "internal" names consistent.

This tool also enables Windows to automatically adjust the gamut curve of the display when a color profile containing gamut table information is set as the default profile for the display. Typically, such profiles are created by custom monitor calibration tools, such as those available from ColorVision, GretagMacbeth, and X-Rite. If a color profile has this information, it is shown with an asterisk (*) in the user interface.

Using the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet, you can:

* Install and uninstall ICC color profiles

* Inspect, rename, and compare two different color profiles

* View a 3D graphics plot of color profile color gamuts

* Associate color profiles with devices such as printers, monitors, and scanners

* Apply custom color gamut adjustments to one or more displays ?on the fly?

* Set up display calibration reminders at intervals you specify

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP

I installed this on XP SP2 all updates, .NET framework 1.1 +hotfix, but the applet fails to open. Uninstalled, redownloaded, reinstalled, still does not work.

May be best to wait to see if others have similar problem.

parkd1,

Well, I posted on MS newsgroups (XP general) and two other people report the same problem I have with the color control applet not opening; no solution offered. If you have suggestions, please let me know.

sorry if this is somewhat OT for this thread, maybe I should start one on another board?

Further to previous (too late to edit), was advised that a new download version is available, (not mentioned as such on the MS site). This differs by 16 bytes from the previous download, and works on my PC and on those of the others who had problems with the original.

So if the color control applet is added to AP, please check that the download exe file is 1,506,352 bytes, MD5 hash 7BE311F9056BD32B53D74C5F78F8C2E3,

not 1,506,368 bytes MD5 hash DAB968C4DE999F53236B0318B9C6AD9E of the old one.

So if the color control applet is added to AP, please check that the download exe file is 1,506,352 bytes, MD5 hash? 7BE311F9056BD32B53D74C5F78F8C2E3,not>1,506,368> bytes MD5 hash DAB968C4DE999F53236B0318B9C6AD9E of the old one.

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WinColorSetup.exe

1,43 MB (bytes:1?506?400/b>)

Date Published: 10/31/2005

Version:1:p :p

it is a live !

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