Re: Most system services do not start after installing security updates

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dewt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed a fresh copy of XP on to my wife's pc and after a
> bit it installed a slew of windows updates. After the machine rebooted
> almost all services did not start. I cannot view the event logger, I
> cannot manually start services as it says it is taking to long for them
> to respond. At that time, I uninstalled about 25 of the updates and
> rebooted and the machine worked fine. I thought maybe it was just a
> fluke and tried installing updates again today. The same thing
> happened, only this time, I cannot uninstall any updates as it tells me
> the file cannot be found after clicking remove in add/remove programs on
> an individual update.
>
> Any help would be appriciated.