Replacement of SP2 New DLLs

[A.M]

Hi,

when I do "Add/Remove Windows Components" sometimes windows xp asks for
installation media to take some dlls from there.

After installing SP2, when windows asks from installation media, I have
concern that old DLLs replace SP2 dlls. Is it legitimate concern?

Thanks,
Alan,

[R. McCarty]

Windows XP has two provisions to handle DLL's. First Windows
File protection. Whenever an application replaces a monitored XP
component, XP will silently replace the non-matching version Dll.
Also, XP has what's called Side-By-Side which allows for an app
to use a specific version DLL while not affecting the normal XP dll.

"A.M" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> when I do "Add/Remove Windows Components" sometimes windows xp asks for
> installation media to take some dlls from there.
>
> After installing SP2, when windows asks from installation media, I have
> concern that old DLLs replace SP2 dlls. Is it legitimate concern?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan,
>
>
>
>

[Alex Nichol]

A.M wrote:

>
>After installing SP2, when windows asks from installation media, I have
>concern that old DLLs replace SP2 dlls. Is it legitimate concern?

After SP2, such files should first be looked for in the folder
Windows\servicePackFiles, where a complete set is put by SP2 install


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)