 | By Susan Bradley Installation of the .NET patches distributed by Microsoft on July 10 has caused many of you hours of frustration. I’m focusing today on the problems surrounding the .NET updates that all of us have faced so far this month. |
MS07-040 (931212, 928367, 930494, 928366, 933854, 929729, 928365, 929916)
Install headaches caused by .Net patches
Taking the lead in installation headaches this month are the new .NET patches. I received many responses to my July 12 column from readers who are having install issues with these patches.
All of us tend not to disable antivirus and antispyware utilities when installing Microsoft patches. But that’s exactly what I recommend you do before installing any of the patches listed in MS07-040 (931212, 928367, 930494, 928366, 933854, 929729, 928365, 929916). It’s been reported in posts in public newsgroups that Microsoft staff are saying the same thing. For example, there are reports of Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy being one antispyware software that can cause issues during the installation.
Several of you have asked if you really need Microsoft’s .NET Framework (and all of its different versions that you typically find on a PC). The answer is, “It depends.” In my office, several versions of .NET are needed to support different releases of Quickbooks and other applications.
If you do uninstall all of the versions of .NET — in sheer frustration at patching each different version — you’ll have to reinstall any line-of-business apps that depend on .NET.
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