SP2 installed at last! From previous messages. To bring you up to speed, due to the auto update program not starting up, and IE6 slowness, I felt there was a good chance I had a virus that was not being detected by ether Avast or Housecall on-line. So I reformatted and reinstalled windows XP. When you boot off the windows XP disk it gives you two options, install XP and repair XP. If you select repair XP it installs the repair console. First I wanted to make sure the boot files were good ones and not viruses! I ran fixmbr and fixboot. I then ran diskpart to delete all partitions, and to recreate them. I then cold booted the machine! That means pulling the power plug in some cases. You do this so there are no viruses in ram memory. I restored power, and booted off the CD again, this time I installed XP. Note I had the DSL modem turned off until I could make sure I had the XP firewall turned on. After XP I installed the latest version of Avast my favorite anti virus program, Installed my drivers, found a virus on the drivers CD. Once I got the drivers fixed I went to the update site and got all the SP1 updates. the auto program still was not engaging, so I installed Directx 9.0c, and then the auto update engaged. Right now it is sitting in the tray doing nothing! On the windows update site you can click on help and support, and then Microsoft newsgroup. I learned in there that the auto-update program has a log file in the windows folder called windowsupdate.log, at the bottom of the file in the last 20 lines or so you will find your update time. If it works correctly my update will start at 2004-08-25 03:00:00. If that time passes. I'll know I have a problem with the auto-update program.
Well the auto update program reset its install date to 2004-08-26 03:00:00, and then to 2004-08-27 03:00:00. Being that the SP2 manual install program was now in the windows update site, I did a manual install, and all is well so far! No slowness has been seen so far with IE6. I am slowly reinstalling programs will let you guys know of any snags along the way!
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