Re: Installing WinXP SP2 is a risk

From: Joe Billionaire (JoeBillionaire_at_bigbucks.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:36:16 -0400

Here's an instance where after installing sp2 all applications worked OK except anything Microsoft;
XP, Office 2003, IE blah blah. XP was originally a clean install onto a new HD 'bout 5 months ago
and defragged 2-3 times before d/l and installing sp2:

Outlook 2003 - could not find Word 2003 as the email editor; broken
Word 2003 - could not register new documents; could not link documents; broken
Windows Installer - could not repair, reinstall, maintain any Microsoft component; broken
System Information - broken due to a problem with WMI, which was broken
Services editing - broken ability to stop, disable some services
Services Dependancies availability - broken
WMI - broken
RPC - altered & broken
DEC - totally fuzzy what this is; no effect to my problems disabled or enabled; assumed broken
Desktop Icon graphics - everything looked like 640x320 quality but 1280x960 sized; broken
Speed for anything (applications, windows, browser, surfing etc) -
lost 20%
sp2 rollback; since Windows Installer was broken I could not rollback; broken

Soooooooooo I did a CD repair and this happened:

All of the above - FIXED!
Speed for everything - gained 20%
DirectX 9c did not update 3 files; does not find my SB Live! card (Creative driver problem, not MS);
manually copied dx files from 1 location which had 9c dated files to 2 locations TWICE before the
system 'unprotected' the older files, for each of 3 files; fixed but reinstalled again; still fixed

All back to usual. Sorry MS but SP2 didn't work for me. I'm not saying anything other than stating
some facts.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Windows Firewall will not turn on
    ... Run a thorough check for hijackware, including posting your HijackThis ... What to do after installing SP2 ... Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Windows Firewall will not turn on
    ... Reinstall Windows advice as the first preference. ... Run a thorough check for hijackware, including posting your HijackThis ... What to do after installing SP2 ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Upgrade to XP SP2, now OE wont work
    ... Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity ... > After installing SP2 I also installed Microsoft Office Pro ... DWORD was not present. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress)
  • Re: Windows Firewall will not turn on
    ... Reinstall Windows advice as the first preference. ... Run a thorough check for hijackware, including posting your HijackThis ... What to do after installing SP2 ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: IE 6 update with SP 2?
    ... Phil, if your problem is caused by malware (aka hijackware), neither ... reinstalling IE nor installing SP2 will be your fix because it's Windows ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)