And you also installed your AV. I do not understand why when someone reformats do they try to install SP2 after installing other programs. You should be installing SP2 or any SP as the very 1st .
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#C...Service_Pack_2
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"ThrowCPUfromWindows" <> wrote in message news:10E04C27-016A-420E-9EBE-...
> Hopefully someone can shed some light on this problem I'm having, I've been
> battling it for 4 days now with no luck. I recently had to reformat my hard
> drive, I won't go into why..that's a complete post by itself, and the disk
> that I have that came with my computer includes only SP1. When I upgraded to
> SP2 my internet connection went out...except in Safe Mode. I had logged on
> in Safe Mode and read a few other cases like mine here on these forums and
> thought that Spyware or Malware may have been an issue...despite the fact
> that I had ONLY been to the Windows Update page since I had reformatted my
> hard drive. So I uninstalled SP2, downloaded Ad-aware and Spybot S&D and ran
> them both before installing SP2 once again. Again, no luck. Unfortunately
> SP2 is a necessity for some of the applications I use on my computer or else
> I wouldn't even worry about it. Please help?