Hi Rick,

sorry, didn't know about your website!

I'll check out your method too. I wasn't aware that you prepared something like this. The intention with what I did to do it where one wouldn't have to manually restart and do things out of MS-DOS mode, but obviously my method has some limitations.

Well, regardless, it seems that the hopes for an official fix are low.

Best,

Ivan


"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message ...
Also Ivan if you want? ..you can list my webpage about the issue too:
http://www.ptcnh.net/~rdchauvin/W98xIE6xBug.htm

As far as the dll swap method, I don't do anything with it publicly anymore for
many reasons like I used to, or link it on that webpage itself, but the dllswap
method I made back then is still on my site and does it a little differently
than yours, and for old-time sake I will show the link here again but I've
expressed my feelings about using 5 dlls in my article; however having
said that I do have it in place on my own computer and simply just press 5 or 6
at the prompt to swap them instantly whenever I want, but usually leave the 6
dlls active. I like my dllswap method too because it gives a very quick way to
put the 6 dlls back when needed, or just as quick to swap them back to 5.

http://www.ptcnh.net/~rdchauvin/dllswap.zip

Rick



Ivan Bútora wrote:
In regard to the issue of Explorer (with IE 6 installed) hanging on bulk
move/delete file operations, as documented on these two sites:

http://cquirke.mvps.org/bexp1.htm
http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm

I have created a batch file that will execute Frank Provo's workaround.
The download is available at

www.princeton.edu/~ibutora/IE_dll_patch.zip

The contents are browselc.dll and browseui.dll (most recent IE 5.5 SP2
version from June 2005), and my batch file. The batch file performs
Frank Provo's workaround, i.e. copying the IE 6 dll files to C:\Program
Files\Internet Explorer (for use when browsing the Internet), while
placing the IE 5.5 dll files into C:\Windows\System (for use when
browsing local folders).


Notes:
- The batch file *can* be applied in conjunction with an IE 6 SP1 patch,
i.e. apply a patch (say "No" to the restart prompt), and then run the
batch file, which will prompt you for a restart. After rebooting, you'll
have both the patch and the IE 5.5 files in the C:\Windows\System
folder.
- You must not run the batch files twice in a row before rebooting, or
else you'll end up with the 5.5 files in IE's program directory.
- The batch file assumes that the MS-DOS name for your "C:\Program
Files\Internet Explorer" directory is "C:\Progra~1\Intern~1". It also
assumes that Windows is installed under C:\Windows.
- There is no warranty of any sort, i.e. if your computer blows up
because of this, it is not my problem. I just tried it on my own
machine, though, and it worked.


Feedback is appreciated.


Thanks and best regards,

Ivan


P.S. CQuirke, do you predict there is any chance at all that Microsoft
will fix this incredibly annoying and terrible bug before June 30, 2006?