RE: Help please, Windows 2000 SP4 & Roll-up problems

First I thank you for taking an interest in my problem and for your advice. I
had just about given up hope on this forum. Perhaps that is the typical
impatience of this modern age but the time seems to fly when your network is
down.

I have windows 2000 professional on 3 systems on a peer to peer workgroup
network. Two of the three systems are hardwired to each other and to the
modem and a to a wireless router via a hub. The 3rd machine is wireless.
There is a 4th machine that is also wireless but it is an xp system, works
fine and is not part of the current problem or discussion.

I can certainly reinstall IE from the CD's if that is how it has to be. That
raises some questions:
1. Do I have to uninstall the old IE first?
2. There have been updates. What do I do about them?
3. I'm not sure if I can access Task Manager in normal mode and am miles
from my systems until Tuesday. I'll look at it then. Just in case, can I do
the install in "safe mode with networking". Safe mode with networking has
allowed me to keep up with my email and do things on the web during this
difficult time.

Again, many thanks for your reply.

"t&g" wrote:

> I have dealt with the missing desktop in 2000 server as well. The only thing
> that will fix it is reinstalling internet explorer 6. You need the full
> version either downloaded or on CD. The typical instal on the MS website
> that downloads about 500K first will not work. I assume you can still
> access task manager in normal mode and you can install it using the run
> command there. Updating to 2003 server will aslo fix the problem.
>
> "alancello" wrote:
>
> > I am writing with my Windows 2000 Professional system in protected mode as
> > nothing else works just now. I foolishly downloaded and installed Windows
> > 2000 SP4 and SP4 Roll-up on my 3 networked machines, shut them down and went
> > on vacation for a week. On startup, (the first boot since installation of SP4
> > & SP4 Roll-Up) the desktop on 1 of the machines failed to appear with the
> > message: "Can't find file "null" (or one of its components). Make sure file
> > name is correct and all required libraries are available."
> >
> > Desktops on the other 2 machines appeared but did not work correctly. In
> > standard mode, clicking on start and then control panel did nothing. The
> > applications that
> > still worked were glacially slow.
> >
> > In protected mode, desktop appeared with some functionality problems. An
> > icon appears in the lower left tray "Show Desktop" but it doesn't do anything
> > obvious in either mode.
> >
> > I tried to check the history of downloaded updates on the MS Update site for
> > a date and time associated with the updates to check to see if I had
> > installed
> > them in the correct sequence. (Control panel "Add/Remove Programs" does not
> > show dates for these updates.) Got error 0X8007041D. There is a log file
> > under C:\WINNT NTfor SP4 Roll-up but I can't find a similar file for SP4 to
> > compare the dates and times. I don't understand the logs so they are not much
> > help to me.
> >
> > Attempting to turn back the clock, in safe mode, "reboot with last known
> > good configuration" made no obvious improvement. On one machine I
> > un-installed SP4 Roll-Up but that made the desktop disappear in normal mode
> > so I did not continue to un-install SP4 on the other 2 machines.
> >
> > My portable external backup drive does not seem to want to mount in safe
> > mode so my belated backup attempt is stalled until that is sorted out.
> >
> > Suggestions will be very much appreciated. Thanks!
> > --
> > alancello
> >
> >
.

Relevant Pages

  • RE: windows updtes
    ... 2.- Please confirm your system clock, and Time Zone also the Date aew set ... Run the above cleaner remover in safe mode then CCleaner on all 3 ... updates using Internet Explorer, by going here: ... critical updates to install. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • RE: windows updtes
    ... 2.- Please confirm your system clock, and Time Zone also the Date aew set ... Run the above cleaner remover in safe mode then CCleaner on all 3 ... updates using Internet Explorer, by going here: ... critical updates to install. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: not a valid win32 aplication Update
    ... anti-malware I can find in both regular and safe mode. ... tried to downloand and install Stinger on 5 different computers ... but rather a corrupt file somewhere ..possibly in updates for Dot ... Open a command prompt and execute the following ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: issues with update KB914784
    ... hi thanks for the reply but i never install udates in safe mode, ... i have tuned off automatic updates as this KB914784 is unstable to my system ... Please contact your software vendor ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • RE: Help please, Windows 2000 SP4 & Roll-up problems
    ... that downloads about 500K first will not work. ... access task manager in normal mode and you can install it using the run ... (the first boot since installation of SP4 ... > a date and time associated with the updates to check to see if I had ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)