XP SP2 OOPS!

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Ron

I had an interaction between the SP2 install and
SpySweeper. SpySweeper asked for instructions regarding
many items added to Startup that had been put there by the
install. I did a fumble-finger and accidentally deleted
these items from Startup.

After I rebooted I tried to do a system restore back to
before the SP2 installation so I could try again, without
success. The system restore failed.

SP2 appears to be correctly installed and stable. What did
I delete? There were maybe a couple of dozen items. What
can I do to fix this?
 
Ron said:
I had an interaction between the SP2 install and
SpySweeper. SpySweeper asked for instructions regarding
many items added to Startup that had been put there by the
install. I did a fumble-finger and accidentally deleted
these items from Startup.

After I rebooted I tried to do a system restore back to
before the SP2 installation so I could try again, without
success. The system restore failed.

SP2 appears to be correctly installed and stable. What did
I delete? There were maybe a couple of dozen items. What
can I do to fix this?
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Does spysweeper have an undo(restore) feature?
 
I had an interaction between the SP2 install and
SpySweeper. SpySweeper asked for instructions regarding
many items added to Startup that had been put there by the
install. I did a fumble-finger and accidentally deleted
these items from Startup.

After I rebooted I tried to do a system restore back to
before the SP2 installation so I could try again, without
success. The system restore failed.

SP2 appears to be correctly installed and stable. What did
I delete? There were maybe a couple of dozen items. What
can I do to fix this?
Click to expand...

Ron,

yet another way could be to uninstall SP2, then install it once
more.

Hans-Georg
 
yet another way could be to uninstall SP2, then install it once
more.
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no need to uninstall it, it seems it allows one to reinstall it! (at least
on my system it does so). See though related recent postings on mine for the
problems I had (not cause of the reinstall - that one I did to check the
problems I had fixed manually with regedit hadn't be caused by the firewall
I had [disabled but started after reboot] at the original installation of
SP2). Both times caused the same problems (huge, couldn't even see desktop),
solved using regedit spawned from the taskmanager (process described in
those other postings I said)

maybe it was bad idea to publish XP SP2 in August, expect much fuss during
September as Windows Update installs it on various desktop PCs (people
coming back after vacations etc.)

cheers,
George
 
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