RE: sp2 upgrade problems

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From: sassejan (sassejan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/17/04


Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:11:04 -0700

shut off auto update.

"Rob" wrote:

> My son upgraded our pc with sp2. Since then every time I am running our pc,
> it just stops and freezes up with no messages and a bright blue screen, the
> next time it was a white screen. After that the screen has vertical multi
> coloured stripes, different colours each time. I have to re-boot the pc
> every time, so far since Saturday, over 20 times. We also lost a couple of
> programmes that were running great before hand. I had to put older versions
> of (Acdsee) in. I had a AVG anti virus on the system that wouldn't run. I
> uninstalled it and downloaded a trial version of Panda anti-virus to check
> if a virus had got into the pc. Some of the programmes such as Winzip files
> get opened up with different programmes. I have tried doing system restore
> to before the installation and still the pc freezes up. I have tried using
> reg check programmes, still the same. Has anyone had this happen to them or
> have any advice?
> Rob
>
>
>



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