Difference between revisions of "KB873374"

Revision as of 23:59, 29 June 2006

Security update KB873374 fake-out for all languages

Update for Windows XP (KB873374) Fake-out <http://unattended.sourceforge.net> says (and I agree):

Critical update 873374 (GDI+ Detection Tool) <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873374>

What a load of crap. All this "tool" does is check to see if you have various Microsoft products installed, then throw up a dialog directing you to their Web page on the topic. For a fresh installation which applies the relevant updates, this is useless, so just this once we violate our principles and patch the registry directly.

<package id="KB873374" name="GDI+ Detection Tool" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="100" notify="false" execute="once">
    <check type="registry" condition="exists" path="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\GdiDetectionTool" />
    <install cmd="regedit /s \\server\share\scripts\kb873374.reg" />
</package>

<!-- kb873374.reg file follows:
REGEDIT4

; Pretend stupid GDI+ Tool already ran
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\GdiDetectionTool]
"GDITool"=dword:00000001
 -->