Talk about lucky failures! This is likely to happen more frequently once Microsoft gets us all on Windows 10, since we will never get new major releases of windows but the continual refreshing of each of the parts through update process.
Joy to the world of developers I suspect. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal LLC On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Joe Glockner <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering WHY my Win 8.1/64bit laptop did NOT have the > problem with the Winhlp32.exe file ... So, yesterday, when I was waiting > for Earl to test his findings -- I looked at my 8.1/64 laptop and found > that I HAD TRIED to download the KB3000850 back on March 10, and 11 of > 2015.. > BUT both attempts FAILED... So, that is the reason why I did not have > a problem with Winhlp32.exe like some of the DXbase users.. > > So, as a TEST - I tried to download KB3000850 again (770Megs - YES that > BIG!!) > .. half-way thru it stopped downloading completely. So, I stopped the > install. I was > hoping to do some testing on my own computer. > > Just FYI > > 73 Joe wa6axe > > > > > > On 03/22/15, Neal Campbell<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am pretty sure that KB3000850 is the culprit for this as well as not > being able to rerun the update to install the proper winhlp32.exe > > I am surprised how difficult it was but once you understand the steps that > caused the problem, its easier to fix. I am so appreciative to Joe and all > the others who spent hours on learning how to back this stuff out! > > 73 > > > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal LLC > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:04 PM, K2LS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I repaired mine in a slightly different fashion. > > > > I have a piece of software that let' s me take control of _ANY_ windows > > file. It's a shareware program found on the net. > > > > I was then able to delete the old (bad) 10Kb winhelp32.exe file and copy > a > > good one in it's place. > > > > So I believe I still have : > > > > KB917607 and KB3000850 installed, but I have not looked to be sure. > > > > > > What will Windows do to us next? > > > > > > 73, Larry > > > > > > DxPacketcluster DXC.K2LS.COM Spots from NA zones 1-8 only. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/22/2015 2:58 PM, Jim Spears wrote: > > > > I just got the DXbase help working on this 64 bit win 8.1 laptop. I > > looked > > > > at the winhlp32.exe file size and saw that it was ~10k. I uninstalled > > > > updates (no time at all) and (couple minutes) then > > > > > > reinstalled KB917607. All is well with this computer. Next time I > > have a > > > > chance I will do the same with the Win7 computers. > > > > > > > > > > There is joy in mudville this afternoon. Actually no mud since > > everything > > > > is either frozen, covered with snow or both. > > > > > > > > > > Jim/N1NK > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > > Dxbase mailing list > > > > Home:http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > Help:http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > > > Post:mailto:[email protected] > > > > > > This list hosted by:http://www.qsl.net > > > > Please help support this email list:http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Dxbase mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
