For the Nth time for me, AL, YOU DA MAN!!!!!!

Hopefully I'll remember Safe Mode for a while this time round < s >

Thanks a bunch!

I do get 3 'serious' Windows errors at startup, but I click "Send Report" on each and things seem to proceed normallyfrom there.
I also got the same immediately after the #!$#!%!$ updates that I did.



>>This is a dupe of an item in CHATTER\Computing in general...
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>>Usually I just put the critical updates (Windows Update) on my system.
>>Yesterday, with a little time on my hands, I checked out the "Software, Optional" list and chose 6 to install. The list included things like 'Remote Desktop', a .NET update, "Root certificates" update, an XML update and 2 'Windows updates'. I know that the RDP update (finally) completed, but don't remember which of the others it hung on.
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>>The downloads all completed but the installations hung on the second one. It sat there for about an hour. I clicked the dialogue's "Cancel" button and it was acknowledged in the dialogue screen but it sat there for another 10 minutes. I couldn't X-out of the dialogue either.
>>Ultimately, I powered off, then re-booted.
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>>I decided that the exercise was folly and chose to use the restore point created by the (bad) update to get back a proper system.
>>While it let me do so, the restore dialogue just sat there. After 10-15 minutes I powered off and re-booted and got a message that the restore was incomplete or unsuccessful and that I should either undo it or do a different one.
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>>I chose to retore from a System Checkpoint of the day before, but again it just sat there and I was forced to re-boot. I ignored the warning on the re-boot, got a couple of system errors, but appeared to have an operational system.
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>>However, I soon learned that (almost) nothing would end. I also found that things like "Add/Remove Programs" would startup but would not populate the list of software... it just sat there doing nothing. I found that using "Restart" or "Shutdown" in the Task Manager would do nothing.
>>I found that the "Start bar" would become dead as soon as I tried to end something (like IE or the Add/Remove Programs dialogue.
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>>I have tried using the XP CD to do a "repair" but it only seems to offer an 'upgrade' install or a 'full' install. No sign of "Repair" being available.
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>>I seem to be stuck in some limbo place. Anyone know how I can get things back to normal?
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>Can you boot in safe mode? If so maybe you can uninstall some or all of the updates that are candidates for what caused the problem.
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>If you're not sure which ones were the most recently installed you can go into Microsoft Update and "Review your update history". Most recent are at the top, by default.