Microsoft Patch Causes Glitches

[Joe Gronlund]

One of Microsoft's security updates from the regularly scheduled security patch release last week can break Microsoft Office applications, causing them to crash whenever they try to display standard Open or Save dialog boxes. The security update also causes problems with Internet Explorer in some cases, Microsoft says.

Though Microsoft says the scope of the problem is limited, the company did publish a workaround on its security blog which involves editing the Registry.

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[Joe Gronlund]

Here is the workaround, if anyone needs it

- (If you have multiple user accounts set up) Log onto the computer using an account with Administrator privileges
- Click the Start button, then click Run and type "regedit" at the prompt, without the quotes; this will start Registry Editor
- Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Cached key in Registry Editor
- Right click on the key and select New / DWORD Value
- Rename the resulting value "{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9}{000214E6-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} 0x401", without the quotes
- Right click the value, select Modify, and type "1" into the Value Data field
- Close Registry Editor

[Bob Isaac]

ooops..

Bob