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Rusty Gordon
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The recent Windows Update on Jan 8, 2019 breaks our POS Program Using MS Jet 4.0 affecting hundreds of our customers with thousands of computers. It has affected everyone running XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 as well as Server. No one has changed their database type. It affects databases large and small. There are no linked tables. Not trying excel connect or anything like that.
This update contains a "security update for MS Jet 4.0" but doesn't seem to replace the MSJET40.DLL. Users of our application get "Unrecognized Database Format" errors when accessing files through our program. Rewriting the entire application to use MS Ace or something else then deploying to thousands of computers is not a viable solution.
Removing the Security Update for Microsoft Windows or the Monthly Rollup always repairs the issue. The problem is that Windows 10 users are unable to turn off updates and others who forget to are right back where they started when the update returns.
In July, this "bug" appeared in one of our "Windows 10 Insider Previews: for Windows version 1803. It was promptly fixed in the very next Windows Insider Preview Build and I currently have Insider Build 1809 without that latest patch and everything works as it should. That said, I did have a customer with 1809 who had this issue. I currently have Build 18262.rs_prerelease 181012-1414 from the slow ring.
We have users on 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP as well as server versions. All are affected. At least six KB numbers for 10 alone have this, one for all versions of 7 i have seen, and one for XP. Some 10 users use Pro, most Enterprise, some home. The latter two have no method of pausing updates without using a 3rd party tool. Pro and Ent grp policy editor csn be used to disable updates. This is an absolute nightmare.
Here are a few. There are so many others for 10 that i stopped writing them down days ago.
Security Update KB4480970, KB4480116 or KB4480962 (WIN 10), KB4480966 (WIN7), KB4480963 (WIN 8), KB4481275 (XP), KB4480968 (WIN SERVER 2008)
Please, if anyone has a solution other than removing the Windows Update, please let me know ASAP. I thank you for reading.
Rusty Gordon
Sensible Cinema Software
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This update contains a "security update for MS Jet 4.0" but doesn't seem to replace the MSJET40.DLL. Users of our application get "Unrecognized Database Format" errors when accessing files through our program. Rewriting the entire application to use MS Ace or something else then deploying to thousands of computers is not a viable solution.
Removing the Security Update for Microsoft Windows or the Monthly Rollup always repairs the issue. The problem is that Windows 10 users are unable to turn off updates and others who forget to are right back where they started when the update returns.
In July, this "bug" appeared in one of our "Windows 10 Insider Previews: for Windows version 1803. It was promptly fixed in the very next Windows Insider Preview Build and I currently have Insider Build 1809 without that latest patch and everything works as it should. That said, I did have a customer with 1809 who had this issue. I currently have Build 18262.rs_prerelease 181012-1414 from the slow ring.
We have users on 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP as well as server versions. All are affected. At least six KB numbers for 10 alone have this, one for all versions of 7 i have seen, and one for XP. Some 10 users use Pro, most Enterprise, some home. The latter two have no method of pausing updates without using a 3rd party tool. Pro and Ent grp policy editor csn be used to disable updates. This is an absolute nightmare.
Here are a few. There are so many others for 10 that i stopped writing them down days ago.
Security Update KB4480970, KB4480116 or KB4480962 (WIN 10), KB4480966 (WIN7), KB4480963 (WIN 8), KB4481275 (XP), KB4480968 (WIN SERVER 2008)
Please, if anyone has a solution other than removing the Windows Update, please let me know ASAP. I thank you for reading.
Rusty Gordon
Sensible Cinema Software
More...
