Visual Studio 6 - SP6 overwrites system files

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RobbDbn - 26 May 2004 15:06 GMT

After installing VS6 - SP6 (From MS CD received as part of MSDN Universal May update) I received the following message from the O/S (Windows XP SP1)

'Windows File Protection - Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original versions of these files - Insert your Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 CD now.

Has anyone seen anything like this, and if so do you know which files are being overwritten and why VS6 SP6 is using unrecognized files

Thank

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Felix Wang - 27 May 2004 09:12 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for posting. A number of people has encounter the problem. Some of
the files shipped with Service Pack 6 merge modules are of higher version
than the system files on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. As a result, Windows
Installer will attempt to replace the existing system files. Unfortunately
the files are protected by Windows File Protection. For a detailed
discussion on this issue and the workaround, you may refer to the following
post:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&th=62328d7175b6f
27f&rnum=5

I have this helps.

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Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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RobbDbn - 01 Jun 2004 21:21 GMT

Thanks for the reply. From what I read in the discussion that you pointed me to these system files do not need to be installed on XP but due to an error in SP6 they are being installed.

So the next question is, 'Should we restore XP to it's previous version or should we leave the files installedby SP6 on?

Thank

----- Felix Wang wrote: ----

Hi

Thanks for posting. A number of people has encounter the problem. Some of
the files shipped with Service Pack 6 merge modules are of higher version
than the system files on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. As a result, Windows
Installer will attempt to replace the existing system files. Unfortunately
the files are protected by Windows File Protection. For a detailed
discussion on this issue and the workaround, you may refer to the following
post

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&th=62328d7175b6
27f&rnum=

I have this helps

Regards

Felix Wan
Microsoft Online Partner Suppor
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Felix Wang - 02 Jun 2004 03:50 GMT

Hi,

There is no need to restore Windows XP. These files are protected by
Windows File Protection and any attemtps to replace them will fail. As a
result, we see the warning message from Windows Installer.

Windows Installer cannot replace any file protected by Windows File
Protection on Windows XP (unless with some undocumented internal tricks).

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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