[Bug][Reproduceable] Stardock Central Vista

Xml View of IE damaged after install of SC

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Hi,

I found a reproduceable bug to report. Hope this is the right forum though.

After installing Stardock Central to Vista 32bit the ability of the Internet Explorer to display XML files fails.

Something like:
Can not display XML ...
... Interface not supported (translated from german)

Uninstalling and restoring files replaced on install makes it work again.

These lines in "INSTALL.LOG" caught my eye.

File Copy: C:\Windows\System32\msxml3a.dll | 10-20-2000 | 00:05:42 | 8.0.7820.0 | 25088 | 9e817855
File Copy: C:\Windows\System32\msxml.dll | 07-21-2000 | 11:05:02 | 8.0.5226.0 | 518416 | 8f9b5eed

Best Regards
Timo Griese
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is an interesting one in that nobody's mentioned that as being a problem before. The 2 files in question don't appear to be coming with Vista by default, which is why we're supplying the older ones that we've used with Stardock Central for years.

I've tried reproducing this with an English version of Vista, but my IE is still displaying XML when a drag a .xml file into it and drop it there. Is that how you're testing or some other method?

In theory, based on an extremely cursory test, those files may not be needed on Vista anymore. It has newer versions with different names. I removed the 2 we added and did a few installs and so far everything is working.

You should be ok if you remove those and I'll see if we can't do away with them entirely on Vista in the future. They'll still be part of the installer for older OSes.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi,

thank you for your answer.

I use the german version of Windows Vista Business, maybe the different language( / version ?) does matter?

I am not surprised that no one did mention that by now. I found out by accident only, since I used the IE Xml View to display Xml data in one of my programs and found it failing from one day to the other. So I traced back what I did to the OS the days before and ended up with my finding. Otherwise I would not have recognized it at all ;)

Best Regards
Timo Griese

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