If you are using Windows 2000 and have installed the latest
SHELL32.DLL security update from MS06-045 (921398) or have
applied the original version of MS06-015 (908531), you may
find that Internet Explorer may no longer work as expected
This update may also prevent MS Office, HP Share-To-Web
software, Kerio Personal Firewall and the nVidia video
driver shell extensions from functioning properly.

These are the problems that were mentioned in MS support
article 918165.

Install the revised KB908531 Shell32.dll & Verclsid.exe
patch for Win2000 SP4 first.  After that apply the registry
fixes for Win2k noted from Claydawg's web site:
http://claydawg.helpdesk.olemiss.edu/reg-fix-2k.zip
 

Then re-install the KB921398 shell32.dll security update
for Windows 2000.

Note that the problems mentioned here ONLY occur on
some Windows 2000 machines without the KB908531 V2 update
installed.  The problems here no longer occur under
Windows XP with Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2003
with Service Pack 2.

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