Restore Point still requires uninstall process

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Why would I need to restore to a previous restore point if I still have to
go into control panel and uninstall the latest hotfix theat I installed?
Wouldn't the uninstall restore the previous files and settings. I'm getting
too many BSOD's so won't be installing any more hot fixes.
 
Why would I need to restore to a previous restore point if I still have to
go into control panel and uninstall the latest hotfix theat I installed?
Wouldn't the uninstall restore the previous files and settings. I'm getting
too many BSOD's so won't be installing any more hot fixes.
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You have an underlying problem. It's not the hotfixes causing your BSOD's.

Download & run ALL the below:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spybot - Search & Destroy by Patrick Kolla - http://security.kolla.de/
NOTE: After you install the above, click "Online" and get the latest updates for the database.

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Advertising Spyware: Blackstone Data Transponder and its derivatives
http://www.cexx.org/vx2.htm

Next, do a system file check. (Have your Windows CD handy)
Reboot, press F8 after the BIOS post, select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt", at the prompt,
type "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Follow the prompts, reboot.
 
see comments below.
Unk said:
You have an underlying problem. It's not the hotfixes causing your BSOD's.

Download & run ALL the below:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Will not install into correct partition

Spybot - Search & Destroy by Patrick Kolla - http://security.kolla.de/ All ready ran this
NOTE: After you install the above, click "Online" and get the latest updates for the database.

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ Looks OK
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Advertising Spyware: Blackstone Data Transponder and its derivatives
http://www.cexx.org/vx2.htm According to the site Search & Destroy would pick this up anyway.

Next, do a system file check. (Have your Windows CD handy)
Reboot, press F8 after the BIOS post, select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt", at the prompt,
type "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Follow the prompts, reboot.
I got an error:
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Windows File Protection could not iniate a scan of protected system files
The specific error code is 0x000006ba [The RPC server is unavailable.].
 
see comments below.
Unk said:
You have an underlying problem. It's not the hotfixes causing your BSOD's.

Download & run ALL the below:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Will not install into correct partition

Spybot - Search & Destroy by Patrick Kolla - http://security.kolla.de/ All ready ran this
NOTE: After you install the above, click "Online" and get the latest updates for the database.

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ Looks OK
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

Advertising Spyware: Blackstone Data Transponder and its derivatives
http://www.cexx.org/vx2.htm According to the site Search & Destroy would pick this up anyway.

Next, do a system file check. (Have your Windows CD handy)
Reboot, press F8 after the BIOS post, select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt", at the prompt,
type "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Follow the prompts, reboot.
I got an error:
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Windows File Protection could not iniate a scan of protected system files
The specific error code is 0x000006ba [The RPC server is unavailable.].
Currently running scan in normal/enhanced mode.
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As to your problem, if the normal mode scan fails, your best option is an In-Place Upgrade...

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
Ok one shortcut in my quick launch caused 3 or 4 BSOD's after I read this
and tried the sfc program. I deleted and recreated the short-cut. Now to see
if there is anything else causing the problem.
 
Haven't found anything - it's even worse that it's intermittant. Yesterday I
had only jused logged on then got BSOD straight away.
 
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