Florence,
At least its good to know someone else had the same
problem since all the other problems on here seem to be
different. Thanks.
Doug
>-----Original Message-----
>Doug --> I feel your pain! I had the exact same
>experience, blew up my only 1 year old Compaq Presario
>system that I had not been having any problems with. I
>couldn't access anything that seemed to be system
>related. Couldn't get into Control Panel, couldn't get
>into Exploring to do any backing up, couldn't get launch
>IE. It was as if a formidable firewall had been
>installed because the programs would act as if they were
>launching, but then they'd blip off the screen. I
>couldn't even get into System Restore!!! So I ended up
>having to do a reinstall, which was told to me by
>Compaq/HP help because I couldn't even contact anyone at
>MS to get assistance. I was successful, however, in
>being able to open my CD/RW writer program, can't recall
>the name, and copied as many of the files I thought might
>be necessary, but lost my whole MS Office Suite, for
>which I need to reinstall, so we'll see how that goes...
>MS really flocked up this time, didn't they?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I installed SP2 - actually, my kid did and I found out
>>afterwards. Now, once it boots up (which is slow), I
>>can't seem to open anything. That computer is now
>>unuseable. I try to bring up task manager to see what
>is
>>running and it disappears after 2 seconds. After trying
>>to open a few programs, I eventually get a DrWatson
>>Postmortem Debugger error. Does anyone else have this
>>problem? What happens if I uninstall SP2? And can I
>>uninstall using add/remove programs? Thanks.
>>
>>Doug
>>.
>>
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