Life saver

Being one of several deputies who use personal laptops in
the patrol units for computerized maps and reports, one
of the guys updated his Win.XP and lost the print, maps,
and norton A/V, then finally crashed. I tried the SP-2
download ONLY after removing the above mentioned
programs, disabeling firewall, and Auto updates. AFter
the install of SP-2, I reinstalled the programs and all
worked fine. This may be of some help, but I think
uninstalling any programs (hopefully you have the master
disks) that may cause any conflicts, a large headache may
be avoided......


Drive safe!!!

Thanks, Max.

> norton A/V

There's the culprit right there. Most AV's do not have to be
uninstalled to allow XP SP2 to install smoothly. Temporarily
disabling should be sufficient. NAV should be, or,
best be uninstalled since it hooks into the system as a virus does.


MowGreen [MVP]
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Never Forgotten
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Max wrote:

> Being one of several deputies who use personal laptops in
> the patrol units for computerized maps and reports, one
> of the guys updated his Win.XP and lost the print, maps,
> and norton A/V, then finally crashed. I tried the SP-2
> download ONLY after removing the above mentioned
> programs, disabeling firewall, and Auto updates. AFter
> the install of SP-2, I reinstalled the programs and all
> worked fine. This may be of some help, but I think
> uninstalling any programs (hopefully you have the master
> disks) that may cause any conflicts, a large headache may
> be avoided......
>
>
> Drive safe!!!