Daisy v2.2

[Chris]

An intelligent auto-hotfix utility for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP

What is Daisy?

Daisy is a program that reviews your system for service pack and OS levels, determining what hotfixes the OS and applications need, and downloading and installing them in a correct and consistent manner. It checks that the hotfixes installed on the system are installed correctly.

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[Guest be@vis]

Do you know the trick to using "Daisy"? I've downloaded it twice now, with the intention of stripping out "I.E." and using "Daisy instead but every time I run it I get an error message. Any advice?

[Chris]

What's your error?

[Guest be@vis]

I last ran it about a week ago so I don't remember it too well, I'll need to run it again and check. It'll be about an hour, or so, before I get back to you.

[Chris]

Before you go, you're not using SP2 as well are you?

[Guest be@vis]

Yes. This is the error - don't say it's to do with SP2.

[Chris]

!IMPORTANT! Using Daisy on XP SP2? See Issue #9 below!

Q: I'm running Daisy on a Windows XP SP2 machines but it doesn't find any necessary hotfixes, why?

A: In discussions with Eric Schultze of Shavlik, he has confirmed that Shavlik no longer supports the 3.86 freeware version of the hfnetchk engine (which Daisy uses). He has also commented to me in email that they will not be updating the mssecure.xml datafile with the necessary information required to support identifying hotfixes for Windows XP SP2, IE 6 SP2, nor Windows 2003 OSes. This will begin to significantly reduce the overall effectiveness of Daisy over the course of time. I'll be working on porting Daisy to use the MBSA 1.2.1 core to identify hotfixes in the future (and use MS's version of the XML datafile). I can't get you a time estimate but the version will be v3.0 when it's released. Sorry.

When you used nLite did you select any services for removal?

[Guest be@vis]

Here comes the bad bit - yes. Which one is the culprit and can I, safely, say that "Daisy" is not going to work for me?

Alerter

ClipBook

CTF Loader

Fax Services

Indexing Service

Messenger

Remote Registry

Secondary Logon

WebClient

Wireless Zero Configuration

[Guest be@vis]

P.S. I've also disabled some - I've kept only what I need and a few I'm not too sure of.

[Guest be@vis]

I 've had another look and I think I'm wasting peoples time with my stupidity. It's messenger or am I wrong again.

[Chris]

Messenger - Not sure, although I see why you're saying that.

If you stick some of that error into google, see what it shows. I would do it myself but i've got to go...now :(

[Guest be@vis]

Yes, I ought to have thought of Google for myself. I've been there, typed in "msgsrvststus" (without the parentheses) and Hey Presto, there it is, two hits and one of them is relating to the exact error message. This is where the difficulty arises - it's the same link which you provided in your original post and, as I neglected to mention last night, it doesn't work for me (it never has. I first got it on another forum a few weeks ago and it didn't work then either) all I get is "vtntug blah blah" can not be found (I downloaded "Daisy" from Major Geeks).

I'm going to look for a "Daisy" forum and, if all else fails, I might try the "nLite" forum which is where I first found out about "Daisy". Watch this space, as they say.

[Guest be@vis]

Found a way in through the back door, so to speak. I found this:-

Q: I get an error about messenger not running or a winbatch error saying something about "msgsrvstatus = wntSvdStatus("",msg_name,0,2)"?

A: By default, Daisy wants to use the messenger system to communicate with the user. This is useful if nobody is actually logged into the system when Daisy runs (via scheduled task, etc). To disable this functionality because you have turned off the messenger service, a GPO has turned it off on your system, or Daisy is failing to determine the status of the service do the following:

1. Right click on daisy.exe and select create shortcut

2. Right click on the shortcut to daisy.exe and select its properties

3. At the end of the string in the Target field, add a "-m" (no quotes) to the line after the last quote mark

4. Verify it looks similar to "your_path_to_daisy\bin\daisy.exe" -m

(note the space between the quotes and the -m!)

5. This will feed daisy the command line option -m which will tell it to not check the messenger service

6. For more command line options, see the section above in this document

All fixed now.

I don't suppose you could tell me which files I should remove from System 32 in order to rid myself of "I.E." - I shan't delete them immediately, I'll do the same as I've done with the Media Player files from System 32 - keep them in a separate folder on C drive until I'm sure nothing is going to go wrong. Could you provide me with the link to the article Re. "Daisy" and SP2. Thanks, once again, for the help.