RE: SP2 installed: Problems.. Uninstall=New Problem (SpoolerSubsystemA

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From: M. Rajesh (mrajesh24_ns_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:11:01 -0700

Hi,

Did you make any changes to the security level. if you had set it to high
then cookies will not be saved and hence hotmail will not work. so you have
to set the security settings to the default settings.

Regards
M. Rajesh
.Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com.

"Rudy" wrote:

> D/L and installed SP2 on my Dell laptop running WinXP home. It had been
> fine with SP1, updates and EZ Trust AV & FW.
>
> Now I have numerous glitches including 1. unable to load JPG files from NGs
> 2. MSN Game zone..repeatedly drops offline midgame..<blocking something from
> the Zone site, probably ads & cookies which are required to run the games>
> .. 3 .Hotmail not working 'cause SP2 is blocking something else.
>
> I decided that since everything had been 'fine' with earlier SP1 and the
> various updates, I'd uninstall SP2, thereby reverting to the time when
> everything worked better. Uninstalled SP2 and most new problems went away,
> but now I get repeated "Spooler Sub System App has encountered a problem and
> needs to close"
> I DID read the microsoft.com scid=324757 after doing a Google but the
> dragged out "fix" noted there (deleting files and messing with the registry)
> is more than I'm comfortable with. The other fix listed from Microsoft is
> to "Install SP2" ..sure
>
> Ideas ?
>
>
>

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