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What happened to Hotfix 915378?


Waudiz

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Does anyone know what happened to Hotfix 915378? It's not listed anymore in the MSKB and it's not online here either. However, I downloaded it some months ago for one of my PCs. Now as I wanted to patch a different PC, it's gone. I didn't find any hint why it has been retired by MS. Also no evidence that it's been replaced by a newer version.

 

The mentioned hotfix replaced the Add New Hardware Wizard. The file and version was:

 

NEWDEV.DLL 5.1.2600.2853 from 02-21-2006.

 

There's only an older version still online in KB883667 (5.1.2600.2505).

 

Kind regards, Waudiz

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Hi,

 

Here is the result of my investigations regarding the differences between the newdev.dll contained inside this hotfix and the one in KB883667.

 

Using the DarumGrim security binary diffing tool ( http://research.eeye.com/html/tools/RT20060801-1.html ), I could see which functions were changed.

The changes are minimal : it seems to be related to a better error-handling though ?

 

I uploaded two images relating to the differences.

 

 

So far, I'm not running into problems with this hotfix (requested to prevent issues during sysprep deployments).

 

Thanks again for the hotfix.

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