Reloacting system DLLs

Posted on Sunday, April 8, 2007 in Windows

Reloacting system DLLs

What a week. Microsoft puts its foot in it and then I have to fix it, of course, it's what has to happen.

If this sentences does also sound familiar to you:

Illegal System DLL Relocation The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\Windows\System32\Hhctrl.ocx occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

Stay calm, it doesn't mean that it's time to format or call your tech-slacky, it's only that Windows has decided to compensate your loyalty with a bug in its latest update. And I'm going to compensate your loyalty as my reader and one of my visitors using Windows (yes, I spy you) telling you how to fix it saving you searching, you only have to install the following patch:

WindowsXP-KB935448-x86-ENU