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To: tiquer who wrote (19507)9/9/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Well, that's a big problem with Windows. It's hard to tell WHAT is going on, and also hard to determine the state of your installation (i.e. what patches ARE installed). And patching one thing can break another quite easily. As I think someone else suggested, often the only way to proceed is a reinstall from scratch (but then you lose the benefit, if any, of those patches you actually were able to find and install before the current problem). Application software often installs new versions of OS DLL's as well, so sometimes all the applications need to be reinstalled, too. It's a nightmare, and I've never found Microsoft to be much help solving it.

I think it's been referred to as "DLL Hell."

One trick I've used to help maintain sanity is to occasionally buy a current version of a non-Microsoft product that stresses the system from a quality vendor, whether I need the product or not (e.g. something like TurboTax or Riven); often they will install updated versions of key DLL's for their own use, which then become available globally. I sometimes find that totally unrelated things that formerly failed magically begin to work after such an install. I attribute it to the fact that folks like Intuit have to know their stuff to survive; in fact, I think they often know Microsoft's stuff better than Microsoft does.

It shouldn't be this way.

JMHO, of course.
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