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• This month’s Win7 patches KB 4034664, KB 4034679 causing second-screen problems

  Posted on August 14, 2017 at 12:52 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I pointed to Günter Born’s expose on Saturday. Now we have a full description of the bug — and proof of concept code! — thanks to Christian “NineBerry” Schwartz and his Wolfsbeeren blog.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4034664, KB 4034679, second screen, Windows 7

• Patch Tuesday Win7 patches KB 4034664, 4034679 causing problems with multiple screens

  Posted on August 12, 2017 at 06:50 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Günter Born has identified a persistent problem with this month’s Win7 patches, KB 4034664 (the Monthly Rollup) and KB 4034679 (the manual Security only patch). If you have a Win7 machine with two or more monitors, you need to look at his report on Born City.

  He reports bugs in the second-screen display of PDFs using PDF-Xchange Viewer. There are also reports of second-screen display problems with IrfanView, Adobe Reader.

  There are also reports of Excel losing the VBA editor icons on the second screen, and of Office 2013 garbling window titles, scrollbars, and other screen elements.

  Are you seeing any second-screen problems with this month’s Win7 patches?

  (Just a reminder: There’s a reason why we’re still at MS-DEFCON 2, and I don’t recommend you install the August patches at this point. It takes a while for problems to, uh, surface.)

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4034664, KB 4034679, PDF, second screen, Windows 7