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WinXPPro SR2

After reading Brian’s the newsletter this morning I downloaded the Microsoft Anti Spyware Beta and installed it. When trying to start the program it got “hung” looking for “Startman10396.msi” so it could install “PCForrest StartMan 1.3.96”. This got me into a “loop” which I could only break out of by going to taskman and shutting it down.
So … after searching my drive for startman10396.msi and not finding it anywhere, I removed the whole megilla and tried installing it from the Microsoft site using “run rather than “save to disk”. … Same problem.
Guess that’s why it’s a “beta”.

Am now running SP1 and have ordered SP@ cd-rom from MS.

Will check with IBM before installing SP2.

Thanks for the suggestions and interest.

Am now running SP1 and have ordered SP@ cd-rom from MS.

Will check with IBM before installing SP2.

Thanks for the suggestions and interest.

The updates were termed “High Priority Updates” and not “Critical” … My bad! (although I’m not sure of the difference!?)

1. Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows XP (KB826939)
2. Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express 6 SP1 (KB823353)

I was pretty upset when everything went south and misspoke. Sorry about that.

The updates were termed “High Priority Updates” and not “Critical” … My bad! (although I’m not sure of the difference!?)

1. Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows XP (KB826939)
2. Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express 6 SP1 (KB823353)

I was pretty upset when everything went south and misspoke. Sorry about that.

Critical Security updates … and I agree with you about driver updates from MS. This is my first “real” experience with XP so it’s possible I might have “tweaked” something I shouldn’t have.

It also may be at least partly a problem with the laptop and happening immediately after the updates was coincidence.

As soon as I get sufficiently restored will look up and post the names of the 2 updates.

Critical Security updates … and I agree with you about driver updates from MS. This is my first “real” experience with XP so it’s possible I might have “tweaked” something I shouldn’t have.

It also may be at least partly a problem with the laptop and happening immediately after the updates was coincidence.

As soon as I get sufficiently restored will look up and post the names of the 2 updates.

Yup … the IBM Rapid Restore fixed the keyboard scramble problem.

Suggest being very careful about downloading the latest “critical” updates.

Yup … the IBM Rapid Restore fixed the keyboard scramble problem.

Suggest being very careful about downloading the latest “critical” updates.

Francois:

Thanks much for the direction …

Francois:

Thanks much for the direction …

Steve and Hans (Welcome back!) … Thanks much

Steve and Hans (Welcome back!) … Thanks much

Crownvic:

I suggest following the advice in the thread pointed to by SMBP above.

BUT … if you stil want to start Reader with Windows, my startup menu (Win2kPro) is in c:Documents and SettingsUserNameStartmenuStartup. Copying a shortcut to that location will start that app when Windows starts.

Crownvic:

I suggest following the advice in the thread pointed to by SMBP above.

BUT … if you stil want to start Reader with Windows, my startup menu (Win2kPro) is in c:Documents and SettingsUserNameStartmenuStartup. Copying a shortcut to that location will start that app when Windows starts.