XP error on Boot

[Guest]

I installed patches last week from MS. In the process my system gave an error message to the effect that it was not sure the updates were from MS. The installation then continued normally. Since then when the machine boots is gets an error on startup and goes to the F8 screen. It defaults to ‘Start Normally’ and will then continue to book OK. Once booted it is extremely slow to open the 'My Computer' window or similar dialog box to save or open a file

Any ideas short of reinstalling XP

 

[roger]

Hi pcmosin,

I installed patches last week from MS. In the process my system gave an error message to the effect that it was not sure the updates were from MS. The installation then continued normally. Since then when the machine boots is gets an error on startup and goes to the F8 screen. It defaults to ‘Start Normally’ and will then continue to book OK. Once booted it is extremely slow to open the 'My Computer' window or similar dialog box to save or open a file.

Any ideas short of reinstalling XP?

The last patches have been:
MS04-014 -> KB837001 -> important
MS04-013 -> KB837009 -> critic
MS04-012 -> KB828741 -> critic
MS04-011 -> KB835732 -> critic

Go to the Windows\\$NTUninstallKB835732$\Spuninst folder and run
Spuninst, to uninstall the fix. This will renew the files you had
before you updated. Once you have done that, boot and see if Windows
behaves OK.

Good luck