If you are using a Win XP product and have automatic updates enabled, or have updated you systems in the past couple of day, you may have installed update KB908531. This update is a security update to verify COM Automation type of objects.
In Micro$oft's normal manner of "it compiles, release it" philosophy, they have created a number of problems for Explorer, Office products, WinZip, anything involving HP and a number of other software products that use COM technology. You may have discovered a program called verclsid.exe running in your task manager, or perhaps a number of these suckers as I discovered. You may have also discovered that things just come to a screeching halt for a few minutes then resumes. This is because most firewalls will not allow this program to execute properly. Micro$oft has finally admitted there is a problem with this update and is recommending that users do not install it or remove it. This comes from their tech support folks. To check if you have this update installed do the following: Click Start | Control Panel | Add/Remove programs Click Show Updates and make sure it is checked. Scroll through the list until you see KB908531. If it is there you will need to remove it. If you have automatic updates enabled, I suggest you disable it prior to removing this update, otherwise, it will reinstall itself. Once the removal is complete, you will need to reboot the computer. After reboot. open the web browser and go the Microsoft Update site: http://update.microsoft.com Click the custom box and when the update for KB908531 shows up, check the box to hide the update so it is not installed in the future. Disregard Microsoft security warning that will be displayed because this updates is hidden. Jeff Steinkamp - N7YG Tucson, AZ SCUD Missile Coordinates N32-13-55.01 W110-50-51.91 http://home.earthlink.net/~jksteinkamp http://home.earthlink.net/~n7yg _________________________________________________________ No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
