Re: Grandpa's PC, Sasser, XP home, & Norton's GOBACK

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From: Eddie (Elcuolo(removetheobvious)_at_Btinternet.Com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:36:49 GMT

Still sounds like you are having fun there.

You now have one of two options open to you.

You can try to repair the installation - hopefully you have a copy of the
XP disc and the serial number

Have a look at the following link as that should talk you through it.

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How%20to%20Repair%20Windows%20XP%20by%20Installing%20Over%20top%20of%20Existing%20Setup:

Or format the hard drive and do a nice clean install!

Or if it is a packaged PC - a Hewlett Packard or something with the restore
disks you could always try that route.

Failing that - hit it with a hammer!

I would dtry to do the repair installation if the situation presented itself
to me - it doesnt necessarily mean it is the correct one! one of the
Microsoft Certified people on the group might have other better qualified
ideas.

With the repair side you would still need to reinstall service pack one
along with all of the other updates and would no doubt still have all of the
nasties in place waiting for you.

I'm guessing that you arent in the UK otherwise if you were in the North
London area i'd try to have a look at it.

Good luck

Eddie

"Poppa" <PoppaRex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Eddie" <Elcuolo(removetheobvious)@Btinternet.Com> wrote in message
news:<d73c76b37379519821fa91c4ba50f3a2@news.teranews.com>...
> > Hi
> >
> > Sounds like youre having fun there.
> >
> > Normally to turn off Goback you would need to reboot the machine and
then
> > press the space bar when the Go Back splash screen shows that "should"
then
> > enable you to disable it.
>
> That did the trick! Thanks!
>
> Unfortunately, i tried to use the online virus checker you poseted and
> it aborted with a RPC error and locked the PC up. Had to power down
> and it would not reboot. Got to the startup screen with the windows
> logo but then it would go black and hand. Tried letting it revert to
> a last working copy but that did not work either. DOA.

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