Giving Up on SP2!

Victor,

I don't know but I have found that most of the standard
solutions for solving WU and/or SP2 issues do not work
including official advices. Keep searching on forums like
this one or others on the web. Perhaps MS will come with a
patch soon or somebody else, so uninstalling SP2 in this
very moment might not be the best thing to do. If you
cannot work with your current installation or need certain
programs that won't work anymore, then why not to to re-
install the OS side by side with the current one using
Partition Magic?

>-----Original Message-----
>After 2 Successful installs, I have decided to abandon
the idea of updating
>my system with SP2. Note that I had successful installs.
However, after
>installation, below is a laundry list of problems I run
into and simply could
>not get any help here or anywhere else to resolve any one
of these. Before
>installation, I completely cleaned and defraged and
checked for viruses on my
>harddrive. Then disabled Norton Antivirus ( I dont have
norton firewall just
>the antivirus):
>
>1. My taskbar went missing
>2. Internet Explorer doesn't work very well - e.g I am
able to get to this
>newsgroup but can't open any of the discussion threads
>3. My PC continously rebooted after an error message
saying RPC services
>terminated unexpectedly. Someone said it was a virus. I
downloaded the fix
>for it and the tool said it could find anything!
>4. The new firewall could not start. If I click on the
icon in the control
>panle, i get an error message that it could not open the
firewall page. If I
>go into services to start it, i get another error message
saying the firewall
>service is not available!
>5. My right click key functionality is lost in services.
For those that
>come up, I cant get into properties.
>6. Most of the tools on my pc did not work e.g I could
not open help pages.
>7. I couldnt upload digital pictures because the canon
software did not
>work. I went to canons site and they had an update to the
software. I
>downloaded it and tried to install it ...I get a cant
install messge!
>
>So what to do? I am sure some folks here have
had "insignificant" problems
>or "installation went like a breeze". But for me, it has
been alsmost 2
>sleepless nights on this. Can't do it anymore. I am
done. Will go the
>prodent route of installing incremental patches when they
come up. My old
>system worked just fine without a hint of a problem.
Thanks
>
>Victor
>
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