Re: Considerable SP2 dwnld/install problems

Gerry:

Yes, back to when I first reinstalled (fixed) XP (last weekend). That seems
to have helped considerably, particularly with speed, opening of
applications & a less-piggy OE. I am still at SP1. I plan to let XP do its
Auto Updates thing and see what happens next. Make sense to you?

Sorry tale here is that I should have used Restore when I first "thought" I
had an XP crash problem. Lesson learned a bit late. Impatience was costly.

Wayne

BTW ~ ever have experience with BLUE screens, you know, the ones we used to
face in the OLD days? Occassionaly I get them - reason: List Corrupt, and
something about LessThan-Equal. Core gets dumped to the disk and machine
reboots. These screens appear after an Account has been clicked and Windows
loads Personal Settings. A techy at a local box house suggested that bad
segments were being seen during the load process. Make any sense to you?



"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wayne

Do you have a system restore point for before the SP2 install?
http://bertk.mvps.org/

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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W.G.D. wrote:
Gerry:

Yep! I realized after I wrote that msg that it was dumb WRONG.

As instructed, nothing comes up as failed. HOWEVER, when I attempt
to dwnld SP2, a previous attempt is noted followed by "Failed".
Here
is the one that I stopped due to a possible hang-up (last msg).
Meanwhile a number of security updates were dwnld'd that day.

So as it is right now, MS's SP2 server will not again execute a
dwnld.
Recall, too, there are SP2 folders in the Windows directory. And
SP2 is not noted in the Programs ADD/Remove feature.

BTW, Outlook Exp 6 has become, forgive me, a pig.

That reinstall of XP Home - old version apparently, has caused a
number of unwanted problems. Applications are slow to open. This
whole thing has me looking at a new machine which is a cowardly way
of solving the problem!

Here is one for you. Home-based, two-machine wireless network. #1
has XP (now the bad one), #2 has Media Center. #1 (w/XP) can SEE
#2,
but #2 (w/Media) canNOT see #1. Two techs at two different local
box
houses said that this is because the OSs are different. In
networking, XP and MEDIA Center are not compatible. True??

Best,
Wayne
Sarasota, Florida




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