Need help with Windows XP

iggy

Why do you say the program (service pack) "stinks"?

Most people have installed it successfully & see improvements in their systems. If you describe your particular problems, perhaps somebody can help you sort them out.

I say it stinks because It causes too many errors in IE, It crashes IE and I have to send

a stupid error report to microsoft. It won't let me lestin to streaming audio even with the firewall disabled conplealy. I don't use firewalls anyway. Had problems with them too.

And It say I have no Anti Virus on my computer. Which I have Norton Anti Virus 2003

installed. It won't let me do a liveupdate even without the firewall.

So that why I won't to get rid of it.

~ iggy67

I went to that site you gave me and I'd tryed all the way to take it off.

but none of theses options was there on my computer.

In the Install/Uninstall window I checked show updates. But

Windows XP Service Pack 2 entry wasn't in there.

So I try to Use the hidden $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder

Click Start, click Run, type c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

It said folder didn't exist.

I'd then tryed

Use the System Restore process

Click Start, click Run, type %SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe in the Open box, and then click OK.

It didn't exist either.

Is there any other was to uninstall SP2?

~ iggy67

Yes, XP was working great before SP2 got installed.  I've should have not listened to

microsoft when they said keep automatic updates on, thats how it got installed.

For now I shut off automatic updates, I'll do them manulaly from now on.

I don't like firewalls because I had problems with them in the past.

And I was told not to put one on if you don't know how to use on.

My problem with them is if something gets blocked I can't get it unblocked,

or when you block something you don't want, it blocks everything elese you want.

I know this sounds confusing, I live a confusing life, and I get confused to easy.

I don't want to reformat this machine cause I don't want to lose all my

stuff I have on it. Very important stuff I have on here.

So reformat is ruled out of the question here, and someone will be upset if I'd

did that. And I will be shot.

Any other options are okay besides reformat.

By the way heres my computer stats.

Dell Computer Corporation
Dimension 2400
Service Tag:  4KK9441
Express Service Code:  9950470417
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Processor Speed 2.34 GHz
Memory (RAM) 256 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Operating System Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Type X86-based PC
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
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~ iggy67

Do you not have a CD writer? Put one in, they're peanuts. And / or install a second hard drive - also peanuts - & back up to that. If you don't back up, you stand to lose your data & you won't be able to get it back.

I desided I'm going to have a professional come here and do all this for me.

Because I don't know squat about these things.

I'll get my step dad to do this hes an expert at this stuff.

~ iggy67

Well I did a reformat of my computer and put SP1 pack on  and it work perfectly now.

I'm not making the same misstake in upgradeing to SP2 cus I will have the same problem

again. I had all my files saved on some CDRWs.

Thanks for the help.

Oh yeah, even told automatic updates to not to download SP2. So I hid the SP2 download file

so it wouldn't download it.   And I'd installed Sygate Personal Firewall on my computer too

and had no problems with it too.

~ iggy67

Model: Dimension 2400

Service Tag: 4KK9441

Express Service Code: 9950470417

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz, 2.4 GHz

Total Memory: 256 MB

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

OS Version: 5.1.2600

Network Card: Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport

SONY CD-RW CRX216E

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