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Sometime it sucks to be the "expert" on hand, doesn't it? Been there! LOL!

So after some testing it turns out using CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT is actually better. New releases will use this from now on. Good show mate.

PS forgot to mention... it bypasses the messed up guid issue as well.

I'm not sure if that's good news or bad - at least when Autopatcher failed, I knew there WAS a problem!

Out of curiosity, in what way is it better? I mean, other than the whole GUID issue, that is. Is there a performance increase, like the MSN article hinted at?

Well I could put it in a large loop to find out, however technically it should be faster. Now it won't run other functions to retrieve/create keys and creating other objects associated with said key.
I plan to make it even faster by retaining the same pass and using it over and over. Currently the function gets a pass uses it for a file then releases after the hash is done.

Very cool! Can't wait for the next build, even though it means I'll have to devise some other test to see if the GUID problem exists on a system.

well that was the first complaint I have had and its been using the the msapi for several versions now. Even before combining the apps in 6.0

I've encountered it a couple of times before, but always on systems that had other issues (e.g. malware). With those, I just went with the nuclear option (format and re-install). I didn't figure there was any point reporting it here, because it was obviously not an Autopatcher issue.

This was the first time I had the problem on a system where that was the ONLY problem, so I didn't want to go the format/re-install route if I didn't have to. Fortunately, I didn't have to.

new topic created and post moved to it.... http://autopatcher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=848