IE6 and shdocvw.dll

[JPicasso_00]

Our application uses the shdocvw.dll and users
have been reporting that IE6.0 becomes unusable
when installing our programs..

I see that lalchak had some problems with these
two and was wondering if anyone else had run into
this type of conflict with this?????

What the heck is going on? Microsoft up to their
old trick again?

[Cakkie]

Well, to put it short, shdocvw.dll IS Internet Explorer. This is the core library behind IE.When replacing this one during installation, will indeed make IE unstable when it is replaced by a version prior to itself. It's like downgrading one part of IE, but not the rest. You should not replace that dll, ever, only by IE setup or so. Nowadays, we can't install windows without IE, so you are sure that the required files are there, so you can exclude them from your setup package.

Tom Cannaerts
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[JPicasso_00]

Yeah, that's the problem. We don't overwrite the shdocvw.dll.
Our application merely uses it to display generated htm files.
We require users to have IE4.0 or greater, guess we might
have to requre IE4.0 or greater but Less than IE6.0.

argh.