The exact same thing happened to me. After 3 hours with
a minimally trained New Delhi MS Tech support guy, the
best he could come up with was a repair install which
couldn't completely uninstall SP2. Now I have to
reformat HD and reinstall XP. Screw you Microsoft for
releasing a flawed product with insufficient de-bugging.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hey I have downloaded SP2 and my HIGH END system
crashed. I had 100 gigs
>worth of things loaded and a backup about 3 weeks old.
Of course i didn't
>check the post. I had turned on AUTOUDATE like they
recommended. It
>downloaded Sunday and I have had to reinstall (format)
the hard drive and
>reinstalled WIndows XP home and the backup. Which takes
a long time. I am
>not even going to use the UPDATE V version to udate
WINDOWS until they get ot
>fixed. SOmething about it.
>After installing windows - went to UPDATE....it updated
(? 20 something
>things), rebooted, Came up with ......
{c:\windows\system32\config\system
>file not found or is bad} .okay...WHat is the problem
with this
>.....reformatted hard drive and a fresh install and then
this? So i have
>reinstalled all my stuff without installing ANY updates
for windows!! I am
>checking here, but no posts are really being addressed
as to what is causing
>the majority of the problems. Also, SPYBOT is finding
MSO exploit on a few
>REGISTRY files that i delete and are right back for some
reason....I have
>FIREWALL (off) and virus scan (on) and nothing is
happening by them.
>Please wait a couple more days and maybe they will have
something worked out.
>Have a great day!
>
>.
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