InstallShield crashes after installing this week’s Windows Updates
July 11th, 2014 by Stefan Krueger and tagged InstallShield
Several users are reporting that their InstallShield authoring tool stops working immediately after starting it. Apparently this is caused by an incompatibilty with Microsoft update MS14-037 “Security update for Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11” (KB2962872) which was distributed on this week’s Patch Turesday. Flexera is aware of the problem. A possible workaround is to uninstall the Windows patch, however this puts your system in an insecure, vulnerable state.
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July 11th, 2014 at 22:41
Flexera Software has published a web page with additional information and a workaround that doesn’t require uninstallation of Microsoft’s security update: http://www.flexerasoftware.com/landing/Microsoft-Security-Update-IS-AR-KB2962872.html
July 15th, 2014 at 09:24
Microsoft is actively working on a fix that will be delivered via a Microsoft Windows Update at a date to be determined.
July 18th, 2014 at 13:53
Flexera Software published a patch to fix the problem. The patch also disables the “Try & Die” functionality which could be used to create a time limited trial version of your application. But I guess that only very few customers were actually using this feature. You can get the patch at http://www.flexerasoftware.com/landing/Microsoft-Security-Update-IS-AR-KB2962872.html#InstallShieldPatch