Re: service pack 2 major problems

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From: david kopel (d_kopel_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:44:59 -0700

After installing Service Pack 2, I had some serious problems with Internet
access.. However, it wasn't nearly as bad as when I tried to do a system
restore to back out of the service pack. That caused a fatal error and I had
to reinstall XP from scratch. Now Microsoft Works and a bunch of other
Microsoft applications aren't working. I thought I could reinstall from the
XP cd, but Works wasn't on it. What do I do, short of paying for a new
version of Works? Is there any way to recover these applications?.
<mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:epU2v43sEHA.2768@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Computers are unduly affected after the installation of SP2 by the garbage
> that a user may have wittingly/unwittingly installed at some point.. SP2,
> while being primarily a security update, is not a scumware/spyware remover
> or anti-virus program.. MS assume, and rightly so, that a computer user
> will take action using available third party software that eliminates the
> constantly growing and changing scumware/spyware/virus/trojan attacks..
>
>
> "osutigger" <osutigger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:05ECB9A4-A8F2-4F9F-BB22-6DCBDC870402@microsoft.com...
>> So then it's just a coincidence that the day we installed Service Pack 2,
>> we
>> just started having trouble? I've asked others who have installed
>> Service
>> Pack 2 and they all said they had computer troubles to varying degrees
>> after
>> installing it.
>>
>> What would you advise?
>>
>> "Alceryes" wrote:
>>
>>> Service Pack 2 isn't the problem. You have spyware and possibly viruses
>>> on
>>> the computer.
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!"
>>> - Alceryes
>>>
>>> "osutigger" <osutigger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:85AC28A0-D272-4602-A89D-3DDC5435D0BF@microsoft.com...
>>> > we installed service pack 2 about a week ago, and since then, we've
>>> > had
>>> > problems. my husband's e-mail completely disappeared. we've started
>>> > getting
>>> > pop-ups and spy ware again, which we haven't had for months. every
>>> > time
>>> > we
>>> > start up the computer, mysterious error messages show up and there are
>>> > unknown icons on our desktops. and don't even get me started on the
>>> > very
>>> > slow speed of the computer now. it's running at a snail's pace.
>>> >
>>> > is it possible to uninstall service pack 2 and get our computer back
>>> > to
>>> > the
>>> > way it was before we installed this mistake?
>>> >
>>> > jody
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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