Windows updates fail after install of SP2

Hi,

After much frustration I finally got SP2 to install on this computer,
running Windows XP Home. My initial problem with SP2 was that it would
install just fine, but as soon as I right clicked anything my computer would
lock up, or Explorer.exe would "have a problem and have to close." I tried
installing it several times after disabling all the context menus that came
up when right clicking and uninstalling Dvix, solutions that seemed to have
worked for others. At any rate it never worked for me so I just did without
SP2.

About two weeks ago I decided I would try it again. I wanted to install IE7
and Windows Defender so SP2 was a requirement I needed to have installed.
So, even though I have a SP2 disc I thought I would just go to the Windows
Update site and get it. I downloaded it and when it was seemingly done
installing I got a message saying that it had failed. Well, since I had the
disc I rebooted and tried to install using the disc. Same thing,
installation failed. No other information or code. Grrr...

Next I thought I would boot into safe mode and try to install SP2, but when
the computer was booting up I noticed that on the top of the screen it read
that I had Windows XP SP2 installed! So I rebooted again and went into
system properties and sure enough, it said I had SP2 installed. Hmmm...
Naturally my first thought was to right click something and see what
happened. Everything worked as it should. I'm thinking, cool! But of
course another problem soon became apparent. When clicking My Computer or
Windows Explorer I noticed I had no drives listed. Nothing, notta, zilch.
So, before I tried to uninstall SP2 I thought I would go into a newsgroup
and ask what could be done. ( Microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) I soon
received a reply (which was way cool) saying that I should go to
run>msconfig>services and uncheck "Windows Image Acquisition" to see if that
would help. Sure enough my drives showed up! Most excellent.

Next I downloaded and installed IE7 and Windows Defender. All of that went
smoothly. I then went back to Windows Update and noticed I had a ton of new
updates since I installed SP2, like 71 of them! I downloaded all of them
and let them install. Everything seemed to be going fine but just after the
last one was done a window popped up that said they had all failed! I then
tried to install just one of them, but that doesn't work either. I have
Windows Update configured to let me know when updates are available, but to
let me download and install them manually. I didn't get any notification
that these updates are available which I thought was a little strange also.
Anyway, that's where I am right now. Unable to get any updates to install.
I don't get any error codes to go by, just a notification that the updates
have failed to install.

I was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction to go next.
I'm really hoping I don't have to uninstall SP2 and start over, but if
that's what it takes then so be it.

Sorry for making this such a long winded post but I thought I should give
some background to what I've done so far. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

~ Doug


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