I just registered today for two reasons - I felt bad about using the USP5.1 without having a way to thank Gurgelmeyer (thanks a lot!

) and secondly, I was following this topic on 838018 - and checked the usual places to see if this fix could be downloaded somewhere. While I didn't find a download as such, I did hit upon the list of fixes in Windows XP SP2 -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...%5BLN%5D;811113Reason for this coming up in Google was that it included, wait for it,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838018The article listed an install of Office 2000 SP3 as requirement for this fix, and it listed the files that
would be installed:
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Date Time Version Size File name
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15-Jun-2004 17:46 5.4.15.0 1,537,016 Windows2000-kb838018-x86-enu.exe
After you install the hotfix, the global version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table:
Date Time Version Size File name
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20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,540 Admin.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 16,439 Admin.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,540 Author.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 16,439 Author.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:22 4.0.2.7523 188,480 Cfgwiz.exe
14-Jun-2004 16:27 4.0.2.8912 184,435 Fp4amsft.dll
19-Sep-2003 22:22 4.0.2.7523 82,035 Fp4anscp.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:22 4.0.2.7523 147,513 Fp4apws.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:22 4.0.2.7523 49,210 Fp4areg.dll
19-Sep-2003 22:22 4.0.2.7523 102,509 Fp4atxt.dll
19-Sep-2003 22:22 4.0.2.7523 618,605 Fp4autl.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:22 4.0.2.7523 41,020 Fp4avnb.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:22 4.0.2.7523 32,826 Fp4avss.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 49,212 Fp4awebs.dll
11-Jun-2004 18:08 4.0.2.8912 876,653 Fp4awel.dll
19-Sep-2003 22:22 3.0.2.1706 14,608 Fp98sadm.exe
19-Sep-2003 22:22 3.0.2.1706 109,328 Fp98swin.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 24,632 Fpadmcgi.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,541 Fpadmdll.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 188,494 Fpcount.exe
19-Sep-2003 22:22 1997.5.27.0 94,208 Fpencode.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,541 Fpexedll.dll
11-Jun-2004 18:09 4.0.2.8912 598,071 Fpmmc.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,538 Fpremadm.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 28,728 Fpsrvadm.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 20,536 Shtml.dll
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 16,437 Shtml.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 16,449 Stub_fpsrvadm.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 65,601 Stub_fpsrvwin.exe
20-Sep-2003 19:21 4.0.2.7523 32,827 Tcptest.exe
15-Jun-2004 19:05 15,984 Kb838018.cat
I went into my Windows XP installation and confirmed that the first two files were present, and of the version listed.
The question I have now is - would we be able to use the files from Windows XP SP2 for the hotfix ? I think the technical answer is yes, but I am unsure about the legal aspect. I know that we're not supposed to use WXP SP2 files if we do not own a copy of XP, but, as we do own a copy of Win2000, are we allowed to take the hotfixes from wherever we can get them ?
Thanks again, regards, w2kfan