Win XP Home - SP2 Probs

After installing SP2, half off my programs no longer work. I click on Icon
and/or Start Menu, get the System Busy display and then nothing. Also, half
of my Startup Menu no longer starts. To top it off, all my Help Options no
longer work either. I have reviewed all the logs I can find, with nothing
displayed as a problem. I have turned off the Firewall, updated the Firewall
Exceptions, nothing seems to work. I have searched the Knowledge Base and
found some articles, but have not been able to find anything that resolves
the issues. I have also scanned my system for viruses with McAfee with
nothing found.

Would appreciate anyones help.

Yeah, im having the same probs, the damn flashlight comes up when i click on
my computer. I cant open and works documents, save any thing, or even print a
document. This damn update messed up everything. If you find out anything
on how to rollback to the way thing was please help me
"Ron" wrote:

> After installing SP2, half off my programs no longer work. I click on Icon
> and/or Start Menu, get the System Busy display and then nothing. Also, half
> of my Startup Menu no longer starts. To top it off, all my Help Options no
> longer work either. I have reviewed all the logs I can find, with nothing
> displayed as a problem. I have turned off the Firewall, updated the Firewall
> Exceptions, nothing seems to work. I have searched the Knowledge Base and
> found some articles, but have not been able to find anything that resolves
> the issues. I have also scanned my system for viruses with McAfee with
> nothing found.
>
> Would appreciate anyones help.

Yeah, im having the same probs, the damn flashlight comes up when i click on
my computer. I cant open and works documents, save any thing, or even print a
document. This damn update messed up everything. If you find out anything
on how to rollback to the way thing was please help me
"Ron" wrote:

> After installing SP2, half off my programs no longer work. I click on Icon
> and/or Start Menu, get the System Busy display and then nothing. Also, half
> of my Startup Menu no longer starts. To top it off, all my Help Options no
> longer work either. I have reviewed all the logs I can find, with nothing
> displayed as a problem. I have turned off the Firewall, updated the Firewall
> Exceptions, nothing seems to work. I have searched the Knowledge Base and
> found some articles, but have not been able to find anything that resolves
> the issues. I have also scanned my system for viruses with McAfee with
> nothing found.
>
> Would appreciate anyones help.

I know how you feel, I guess I am lucky in the fact my problems are not as
severe as yours. I did find one Knowledge Base article (KB875350) on how to
de-install SP2, although after following the instructions, nothing changed.
Basically it stated to use the Control Panel's "Add or Remove Programs"
function. Which it stated to select the Check Box for "Show Updates", which
will allow you to see updates applied to your system; besides just the
programs. Select the Win XP SP2 Update and then follow the Pop-Ups. It
retruned my system to SP1, but as I stated, nothing has changed as to my
problems.

From whatelse I have read, MS is stating that SP2 was put through its
testing and passed for GA. However, they also state that they cannot be
responsible for all the configurations we might have. I also read that there
is an issue with the Hard Drive formatting if you try to recover from SP2.
Which I get the opinion that the only option is to re-format the drive using
an SP1 Boot Disk and then re-laying the rest of your system down.

I have pretty much resigned myself to having to re-format my drive and
rebuild, once I have the time to cut my arm off . Although I am really
concerned that my backup has been corrupted with whatever the problem is, and
will restore the problem back if I try restoring anything. I will try to
remember to write an update once I have gone through this exhuastive process;
as to the outcome.

"slowmofo908" wrote:

> Yeah, im having the same probs, the damn flashlight comes up when i click on
> my computer. I cant open and works documents, save any thing, or even print a
> document. This damn update messed up everything. If you find out anything
> on how to rollback to the way thing was please help me
> "Ron" wrote:
>
> > After installing SP2, half off my programs no longer work. I click on Icon
> > and/or Start Menu, get the System Busy display and then nothing. Also, half
> > of my Startup Menu no longer starts. To top it off, all my Help Options no
> > longer work either. I have reviewed all the logs I can find, with nothing
> > displayed as a problem. I have turned off the Firewall, updated the Firewall
> > Exceptions, nothing seems to work. I have searched the Knowledge Base and
> > found some articles, but have not been able to find anything that resolves
> > the issues. I have also scanned my system for viruses with McAfee with
> > nothing found.
> >
> > Would appreciate anyones help.