Windows Embedded POSReady 7 June 2012 Feature Update. This update contains the following out-of-band application:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package for Windows Embedded POSReady 7
• The Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ 2010 SP1 on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2010 SP1 installed.

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This update contains the Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 June 2012 Help Content Update:

• Cumulative help content update for the Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 toolkit. In addition to bug fixes and general improvements, help topics for the following Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 packages are included in this update: 

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If both April 2012 WES09IE7WMP11 and June 2012 WES09IE7WMP11 security updates have been installed, there is a bug that causes duplicate "Primitive: Shlwapi" components in the database which may prevent successful image creation. The following workaround steps should be performed on machines used for creating images.

Workaround steps:

1. Open Component Database Manager.
2. Select Packages tab.
3. Under Available packages, select Windows Embedded Standard 2009 with IE7 and WMP11 Security Update KB975713 (Version 1.0,R1).
4. Click Delete Package, then confirm by clicking Yes.
5. Reinstall June 2012 WES09IE7WMP11 security update WindowsEmbeddedStandard09IE7WMP11-June2012-x86-ENU.exe.

Steps to verify the workaround fix:

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Posted By David Campbell
Program Manager

Doug Boling recently hosted one of his regular webcasts on Optimizing performance and power on Windows Embedded Compact 7 and has graciously provided me with a companion article. Thanks Doug! There’s more information later in the article about how you can sign up for these webcasts so please do join us for the monthly sessions.

Embedded hardware is slow. It’s designed that way. Unlike Personal Computers which are sold to customers who are dazzled by high gigahertz numbers and massive hard disks, embedded customers buy a widget that does something. If the widget does something well that’s all that matters, so the manufacturer of that widget is going to use the slowest (and often least expensive) hardware possible to implement that widget. This is one requirement that makes embedded software so challenging to write. Embedded software must have great performance so that the hardware can be as inexpensive as possible.

In this blog post, I will review some of the techniques for system design that can improve performance, and as a consequence, the power consumption of a system. I’ll also cover some lower level application driver characteristics that can lower power consumption directly.

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The June 2012 Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 3 and Windows® Embedded Standard 2009.

The list below applies to Standard 2009 only:

• KB2604121 - Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution
• KB2656405 - Combined Security Update for Microsoft Office, Windows, .NET Framework, and Silverlight
• KB2656368 - Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution
• KB2686827 - Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution

The list below applies to both XPE SP3 and Standard 2009:

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