From: Mike '/m' 



I installed the patch on one Windows XP PC.  Now the Microsoft image viewer
cannot display some image files.   MS Photo Editor works fine, as
does MS Paint.

Also the XP screensaver does not display .bmp files anymore.

  /m



On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 22:38:37 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>Yep, I put it on 11 machines so far and not one problem. One machine even
>runs Pagemaker and Corel Draw and uses metafiles extensively in the pages
>and it seems ok so far.
>
>As I understand it, the patch breaks functionality of the function being
>exploited (abort something or other) but that doesn't seem to be a very
>important function for most uses of metafiles from what I can tell.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in message
>news:43be6798{at}w3.nls.net...
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>> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:43be4a3d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > I'm waiting till you try the patch before I try it.
>>
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>> How to test the patch, that will confort you ?
>> I installed it and am "using it" right now :)
>> Everything seems to be working "Ok".
>>
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>> M.
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