Re: Problem applying 9.2.0.4 patch (Windows 32 bit) on Win XP Pro

I've got this sorted.

I used msconfig.exe (rather than the Services.exe tool). Basically I took the "Diagnostic Startup" option and rebooted, did the install and then used msconfig to return to "Normal Startup". Job Done.

Thanks for the info - I shall be checking out the sysinternals website. It seems there are a lot of useful windows tools there.

Thanks for your time.

Mat.
Andy Hassall <andy_at_andyh.co.uk> wrote in message news:<28fc201dhdv4ru0m3g2gbcor0aaqdm5p8k_at_4ax.com>...
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:38:08 +0100, Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Hmmm - recall having been there once - reboot (hey - this IS windows)
> >and logging on locally (instead of using a network account) helped, iirc.
> >You are not required to stop all these services... It's an error reading
> >the state of the machine.
>
> Yep, I agree with that. Head over to http://www.sysinternals.com/ , and
> download the freeware Process Explorer. It's got a DLL search that you can use
> to track down anything that has Oracle DLLs loaded.
>
> What I've seen a few times is several 'COM Surrogate' processes which each
> have loads of DLLs loaded - apparently on behalf of other processes, even after
> they've stopped. As it happened on a test machine, killing those surrogate
> processes off released the DLLs and the patch continued. This probably has the
> potential for unpleasant side-effects if it zaps anything that was actually in
> use by another process.
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 06:12:35 CST