Security Update for mscomctl.ocx (KB2597986 MS12-060) August 2012 Updates: Listbox double-click no longer works

Anonymous
2012-08-15T12:25:26+00:00

After installing the August 2012 round of patches (MS12-060: Vulnerability in Windows common controls could allow remote code execution), an Access 2010 application using the Windows common controls Listbox no longer responds to a double-click.

The update installs MSCOMCTL.OCX 6.1.98.34 dated 6 Jun 2012.

Reverting to the previous version of the file (version 6.1.98.33, variously dated 7 or 14 Feb 2012 solves the problem.

I think this probably applies to Win XP as well.

Anyone else come across this? Any other issues with this update?

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Anonymous
2012-08-15T16:40:53+00:00

We had the problem and the way round it is to unregister mscomctl.ocx, log off, log back on and then register mscomctl.ocx.  The log off stage is important.  Without doing this unregistering and registering doesn't work.

This 'fix' has worked for us on PCs running Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 (Windows 7 64bit, Vista and XP)

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-08-15T23:15:49+00:00

    Worked like a champ!

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-16T00:23:08+00:00

    So the moral of the story here...

    Microsoft, make sure you properly unregister old OCX and DLL files when you plan to push out a CRITICAL update and update said OCX and DLL files.

    Thanks you for wasting an entire day for me and my team fixing over 40 PCs around the US.

    We pay enough for your products... a little effort sure would be nice.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-08-16T01:14:35+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-16T08:35:02+00:00

    Same here. I have a Word Macro using VB6 that died after the updates last night.

    It has to be the MSCOMCTL.OCX

    This happened last year during some other MS update.

    Last year? It happend in April this year!

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