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to: John Beckett
from: mike
date: 2007-04-07 11:58:02
subject: Re: Side effect of the .ANI patch

From: mike 

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:02:19 +1000, John Beckett
 wrote:

>mike  wrote in message
>news::
>>   This version of XXCOPY has never been tested
>>   in the current Operating System environment.
>
>It looks like a message from xxcopy - a check that it performs each time
>it runs to test the OS version. I can imagine that because xxcopy probably
>does some funky stuff and it wants to know that it's not going to mess up
>your files.
>
>My guess is that the update has slightly altered some version test. I
>wonder what you see when you run 'winver' on a box with the patch, and one
>without.
>
>John


Found winver.

With patch: Version 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)

Sans patch: Version 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)




I'm thinking this problem may be the beginning of Microsoft's effort to
remove any remaining usage of Windows 2000 by slowing breaking it...

 /m

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