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Roberto

Unfortunately not. But I understand from everyone I've spoken to that this was _extremely_ unlucky, and that the overwhelming majority of such problems _are_ completely resolved by removing SP2. Your second question is a very valid one, but I am not such a person; sorry.

Soya

RogerM:
No I didn't go back to a restore date to remove SP2. I just removed it in the usual way of removing a program. In other words: Start ----> Settings ------> Control Panel and then Add/Remove Programs. SP2 will be in the list just like any other program and can be removed/uninstalled. I didn't suffer any problems after uninstalling SP2. So it seems safe enough to do. I believe SP2 makes a sort of back-up of your system during instalation so that things can be returned to normal if there are any problems and it has to be uninstalled. But do your own research, I'm no expert.

Soya

Trader333:
Thanks, Now I know what the problem was I may have another go with SP2, although to be honest as things are working fine at the moment I'm slightly reluctant to 'rock the boat'.

Roberto

I was also told this, by the technical support people at my ISP, and by an independent computer engineer who came round to help me out. I imagine that it, or something like it, is true.

Nevertheless, the problems I was left with after removing SP2 were (i) that my PC didn't "recognise" the printer any more, and announced "new hardware has been detected" but then couldn't "install" it (it was already installed, really, but the PC didn't know this), and (ii) my internet connection-speed had fallen so badly that it was virtually impossible to load anything but the simplest of pages with no graphics to speak of.

Both these problems had begun the minute that SP2 was installed, on a system I'd been happily using for a couple of years. And I had closed down Norton Antivirus before installing it, as advised.

Trader333

Hmm,

It would seem that the best bet is to ghost your hard drive before installing SP2 as this will put your PC back to exactly how it was before.


Paul

oatman

Maybe something here can help you
http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=63817

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roguetrader

Hi I have just started runnin an xp based machine, can anyone tell me how to access data telling me how much free resources I have. In 98 it was start>control>system and performance tab, would tell you there is like 46% free resources, can;t seem to find the same thing on xp

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Altern8

press Control + Alt + Delete (all together) and you should get the Window sTask Manage, then click on Performance tab, and you will see what resourses you are using.

Kev