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A solution to the MS12-034 0x8007F0F4 problem?

Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:48 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

A Windows expert I know (thanks again, SB!) claims she found out why she couldn’t get the MS12-034 .NET patch installed on her computer. It kept dying with an Error 0x8007F0F4 error, as described in my earlier post.

A long, long time ago she re-mapped the Scroll key on her PC, following the advice in “I’ve Hit F12 For the Last Time – Jesper’s Blog“. Since the patch is playing around with keyboard layout files, apparently that was enough to make the MS12-034 installer go kablooey.

Her advice:

From a command prompt copy the following:

reg delete “hklm\system\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout” /v “Scancode Map” /f

and hit Enter. Reboot your PC, re-install the patch, and it works.

Anybody else encountering the problem? Does this fix it?

Windows Patches/Security Error 0x8007F0F4, fix, KB 2676562, May 2012 Black Tuesday, MS12-034

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