Kath Pelletti
sdssoftware at optusnet.com.au
Fri Aug 15 23:41:22 CDT 2003
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.
Thanks for the tip anyway.
Kath
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Tydda
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh
Kath
I don't think you can reinstall patches from the windows update site, but if you go to www.microsoft.com/downloads there is a catalogue list of ALL the patches they've ever produced.
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.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Software Design & Solutions Pty Ltd. [mailto:SDSSoftware at optusnet.com.au]
Sent: 14 August 2003 04:46
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh
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.
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.
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.
I am now faced with reinstalling Windows............sigh.
Kath Pelletti
Software Design & Solutions Pty Ltd.
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