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AB @ 3rd Nov 04:58PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by altermatt :

Nick, I have that update (974455) installed, and shortly thereafter, had problems with IE crashing upon starting intermittently---but it seems to have cleared up on its own. The symptoms described in the bulletin:
You receive a VBScript "Type Mismatch" script error message in Internet Explorer after you install cumulative security update 974455

are, as another user here said, Greek to me.
Problems that fix themselves are the best sort of problems to have. I'd like some of those.

I'd imagine IE would be tossing you that error message about scripting in certain situations if you were suffering from the issue.
So either you're not, or you just don't know about it yet.

As the fix will be included as part of the next cumulative IE roll-up anyway, and those roll-ups seem to be released pretty regularly, my tack would be to do nothing until/unless such time as IE demonstrated to me that I was afflicted with this problem.
But if I thought I might be but wasn't sure, then yeah, I'd probably install it.

The sense I got from it is that the issue is not universal, but only affects certain specific users or configurations.

said by DrDemento :

Figured it must have been very important since they did not wait until next Tuesday for the normal monthly rollout of patches.
If a person's IE is borked, a person might find him/herself using another browser. Microsoft Corp. likely would prefer that not happen.
Not to mention, as a flagship component of the OS, it reflects poorly on the company if it no workee.
So I'm sure they did feel it was important, as they should have.
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NICK ADSL UK @ 3rd Nov 05:29PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

it is for vista as well
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lordpuffer @ 3rd Nov 05:38PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

Mine for Win 7 x64 came through automatically via Windows Update and I installed it....Thanks.
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antdude @ 3rd Nov 06:36PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by IllIlIlllIll :

can anyone tell me if they were required to restart their pc after this update ?
I had to reboot my XP Pro. SP2 and SP3 machines with IE6. :(
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Grail Knight @ 3rd Nov 06:39PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

Same here. No restart required either.
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La Luna @ 3rd Nov 06:43PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by Boricua65 :

I take it, this is for IE7 correct? If it is, I'll ignore, don't care of that POS and haven't installed it anyways.
If you had bothered to read the support article, you would have seen that it's not just for IE7. And what does you not caring for that "POS and haven't installed it anyways" have to do with this update thread? :uhh:
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La Luna @ 3rd Nov 06:44PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

Got the update, restart required.

Thanks Nick!
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Dustyn @ 4th Nov 02:34AM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by NICK ADSL UK :

Important Do not install this update if you have not installed security update 974455. If you install this update without first installing security update 974455, Internet Explorer may not work correctly. If this occurs, uninstall this update, install security update 974455, and then reinstall this update.

»support.microsoft.com/default.as···s;976749
Not an issue if you run Windows Update/Microsoft Update as both portals would detect those pre-requisites for you. It would not offer this new patch without the previous updates. Patch is also available for Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2.
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Boricua65 @ 5th Nov 06:18PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by La Luna :

If you had bothered to read the support article, you would have seen that it's not just for IE7. And what does you not caring for that "POS and haven't installed it anyways" have to do with this update thread? :uhh:
Uhh, because I use Firefox almost exclusively. I rarely use IE 6 (except for Windows Updates) and I haven't installed IE 7, IE 8 or IE 9 or IE 75 :uhh: :uhh:.
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jaykaykay @ 5th Nov 06:24PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

Am on new box with a different OS though still XP. I had no problem with the downoad, and thanks again, Nick.

And, yes. I did have to reboot.
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kim @ 5th Nov 09:30PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by Boricua65 :

said by La Luna :

If you had bothered to read the support article, you would have seen that it's not just for IE7. And what does you not caring for that "POS and haven't installed it anyways" have to do with this update thread? :uhh:
Uhh, because I use Firefox almost exclusively. I rarely use IE 6 (except for Windows Updates) and I haven't installed IE 7, IE 8 or IE 9 or IE 75 :uhh: :uhh:.
And so the question remains.... what are you doing in this update thread for IE then? Trolling?
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redwolfe_98 @ 5th Nov 09:34PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

said by Mele20 :

Why does the link to the download for IE6 on XP SP2 and 3 lead to a download for IE8??? I rechecked to make sure I didn't initially click on an IE8 link. The IE6 link offers an IE8 download
mele, you could check the "file information", for the files that were installed by the update, to see if you have the right ones..

for win xpsp3, the 32-bit version, and IE 6, there is only one file to check, that is significant, "mshtml.dll".. the other one that is listed, "updspapi.dll", is in the the folder that is used for uninstalling the patch..

the "file information" for the files that were installed by the update is on the same webpage that has the links for the download.. just scroll down the page, to find the "file information".. here is a link to the webpage:

»support.microsoft.com/default.as···s;976749
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Jrb2 @ 5th Nov 09:43PM:
Re: An update is available for Internet Explorer that resolves

Thanks Nick.
Got it on XP-home SP3, IE 6.

(and yes, I do know which files were changed, added, etc)
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