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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Jon. Thanks for that. About half
an hour after sending that message I shut down the PC and it has taken me 2 days
to get back online. I took advantage of the disaster (couldn;t start Windows at
all) to upgrade to Win XP Pro and now I'm back online.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks for the tip
anyway.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Kath</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Jon.Tydda@alcontrol.co.uk href="mailto:Jon.Tydda@alcontrol.co.uk">Jon
Tydda</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=dba-tech@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:dba-tech@databaseadvisors.com">'Discussion of Hardware and
Software issues'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [dba-Tech] WIndows update
aarrrggh</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Kath</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
don't think you can reinstall patches from the windows update site, but if you
go to <A
href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads">www.microsoft.com/downloads</A> there
is a catalogue list of ALL the patches they've ever
produced.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
downloaded SP4 in it's entirety and stored it on my server so that I could
patch all the pc's here without using all my bandwidth. I'd say a reinstall of
sp4 was in order.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212160508-14082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jon</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Software Design &
Solutions Pty Ltd. [mailto:SDSSoftware@optusnet.com.au]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 14
August 2003 04:46<BR><B>To:</B>
dba-tech@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [dba-Tech] WIndows update
aarrrggh<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Just sharing some
frustration....today to make sure that I could avoid this new worm which I had
not been infected with yet, I went to the site MS has advertised and let MS
'review' my Win 2K Pro version and recommend updates. It then showed alist of
updates I could make and after reading through the first one (re: the scurity
hole) I went ahead and installed it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I now cannot do all kinds of
things, eg. I can;t open a pdf file with Acrobat reader ('Acrobat has generted
errors...') and when I tried to just reinstall Acrobat Reader I get errors
telling me that the Windows installer file is corrupt and that the
installation cannot proceed. I am also having quirky problems in IE - none of
which I was having before going near the MS site. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If I go back to the MS site and try
to re-install that patch or any other it throws and error and chucks me
out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am now faced with reinstalling
Windows............sigh. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Kath Pelletti<BR>Software Design
& Solutions Pty Ltd.<BR>Ph: 9505-6714<BR>Fax: 9505-6430<BR><A
href="mailto:SDSSoftware@Optusnet.com.au">SDSSoftware@Optusnet.com.au</A></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>
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