Re: XP Home Automatic updates powered off before completion

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply.  Your suggestion is exactly what I tried, and it 
worked.  I installed SP2 and all went swimmingly.

Now I am trying to get rid of spy ware and clean the registry.  That is 
not going swimmingly.  :)



Dan wrote:
> Booth, if this is a new/scratch install, It would probably be easiest to
> just start over.  Do you have SP2 on CD?  Less exposure if you install SP2
> that way, and a HECK of a lot faster to boot.
>
> If you're upgrading an existing installation, I'm not sure what your options
> are other than backing up your data files, and do a scratch install of XP,
> and reinstall all of your apps and then your backed up data.
>
> HTH,
> Dan
>
> On 2/21/07, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > XP Home Automatic updates powered off before completion.
> >
> > Now I can't get the PC to boot in anything but safe mode.  Any
> > suggestions on a way to go on from here?
> >
> > It was trying to finish installing Service Pack 2, if I understand the
> > messages correctly.  Somewhere in the process it obliterated the System
> > Restore points so that isn't a choice either, so far as I can tell.