Will SP2 Crash my machine?

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I've the same problem, on 2 seperate computers. My friend also had it but said it was caused by a virus. That may be the case as all the solutions for fixing it i've found online don't work (setting the registry entry for the windows shell and tweakui). My virus scanner doesnt pick anything up though.

Service Pak 2 loaded ok, but afterwards, my computer crashed and it corrupted windows. I would like to remove SP2 and get Windows back to the way it was before installing that. Is there a way to do that without re-installing Windows?

I have Advent labtop and my running system is Windows XP I tried to access to the SAFE MODE status by pressing Delet,or F8,or Space bar, when the system is starting I faild,so I would be so grateful if you could help me how can access the SAFE MODE ?
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I am surprised that not one reply has mentioned using the system restore utility in XP. Simply use a restore point before the sp2 installation. I am 99.9% sure that it will undo the damage that sp2 has done.

I installed it on my P2-266mhz system with 64MB RAM. I didn't damage my system but it really slowed it down. I'm back to SP1.

where can I get rescue disc for advent 7027 laptop.My laptop wouldn't boot up in any mode.In the end I put in advent3000 series desktop rescue disk.Lap top works fine but lost most of my drivers..ie wireless,sound and dvd ..stupid of me I know
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I have no problems with sp2 but you said you talked to pcbeginner???HOW. I bot their program 2 months ago and have tried to get some help. Hell I can.t even make contact. No one answers the phone nor numerous emails. Loos like a big scame from here
m nelson

I downloaded Windows XP 2 after receiving a prompt. The download took 10 minutes or so and then prompted me to restart my computer, now all I have staring at me is my beautiful tropical island wallpaper, no icons and no start menu, and pressing ctrl-alt-delete does nothing...PLEASE HELP!

Both the computer in my basement and my room have windows XP SP2 and no problems, and the computer in my room has Internet Explorer 7.

My dad had to reinstall Mirosoft Windows XP on my PC because it has errors like not playing system sounds, internet connection (wireless @ home) problems, C Drive not formatting sice it had 3.8GB of Hard Drive Space left: all of the cache, programs, etc. Now I can do everything except downoads from internet sites (McAffee 2007 installed and PC protected). WinRAR not installed at the moment.

The answer is YES. It will crash your computer. I installed it after receiving a prompt, it finished downloading, and then it asked me to restart the computer. After the restart, my PC couldn't recognize the local profile anymore, it lost my Word documents, all my music files, and all my pictures, etc. I ran a system recovery in order to take the comp. back to its original state, but it was already too late to save my files. Luckily, I had backed most of them up. And yes... I DID run an anti-spyware scan before installing. Nothing warned me against going ahead with it. The long and short of it: don't install. You'll lose everything. I nearly cried.
Crap on you, Microsoft.

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