SP2 broke more than that, on my machine it did this:
Well, since there doesn't seem to be any help on this AND on the other
things that broke with SP2 including Outlook 2003 (and Word 2003)
which WERE:
Windows Installer - broken
System Information - broken due to WMI, which was broken
Services editing - broken ability to stop, disable some services
Services Dependancies availability - broken
WMI - broken
RPC - altered & broken
DEC - totally fuzzy what this is, so assumed broken since too many
..exe's didn't work properly w/ or w/out it
Desktop Icon graphics - broken
Speed for anything (applications, windows, browser, surfing etc) -
lost 20%
Soooooooooo I did a CD repair and this happened:
All of the above - FIXED!
Word 2003 - no error msgs
Word 2003 Office Assistant - restored even though the little fool is
annoying!
Outlook 2003 - able to find Word 2003 as the editor
Speed for everything - gained 20%
All back to usual. Sorry MS but SP2 didn't work for me. I didn't
trust the Rollback either since I've seen issues with that posted.
I'm Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ticked off that this evil service pack took so long to d/l, was
hyped up so much as the best thing since sliced bread...and was getting totally bypassed by MVP's
because they know it's a crock AND it has some remaining protected components that will not allow
deleting. MS changed too many things...they should have broken it up into like 4-5 mini-packs or
something.
