Windows File Protection...
Aug. 3rd, 2001 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWindows 2000 exhibits a take-no-prisoners attitude toward overwriting or replacing certain system files, including DLLs and font files. It is, in theory, possible to officially defeat the mechanism, but this article at the Microsoft web site indicates I'll need to have a debugger attached via a null modem cable to the system I'm trying to modify (after editing a Registry entry, yech).
On the one hand, it probably is a good thing, as it prevents installation programs from replacing and overwriting system files willy-nilly. On the other, it also prevents needed changes from being made, unless Microsoft approves them or unless the persons making the change are willing to jump through certain hoops.
Cheers...
On the one hand, it probably is a good thing, as it prevents installation programs from replacing and overwriting system files willy-nilly. On the other, it also prevents needed changes from being made, unless Microsoft approves them or unless the persons making the change are willing to jump through certain hoops.
Cheers...
