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Fresh XinXP Pro (vendor installed) IBM T30 is not happy...

Asked by infiniteposse in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

Tags: t30

Hi all-

I'm in the process of trying to tweak 2 new IBM T-30's for my bosses kids.  The laptops shipped with WinXP Pro and the first thing I did when I got them was pull 1 out and start the process of updating service packs and patching for Blaster.  This all seemed to go well and the laptop chugged right along.

I then added McAfee VirusScan 7.0 (enterprise) to the Laptop and that too seemed fine.

Today I had a few minutes so I was going to install MS Office XP and when I tried the installer hung at the very start of the install - "preparing to install"...  Since then I've been having a ton of odd issues with the machine.  

The machine will not allow me to get to the networking control panel properties or the "system" properties, both of which I tend to access by using the right mouse click on "my network place" and "my computer".  I can get to properties and click it and then I get an hourglass and then nothing.  I also cannot uninstall McAfee VirusScan either.  This process hangs as well.

Lastly, when shutting down the OS I keep getting "rundll32.exe" errors that hangup the shutdown of the machine.

I'm not sure if I applied some bad MS patch which is a no-no or what, but this things running very poorly and I'd love it if someone knew what the deal was...

I may also just upload the image of the untouched machine to my Ghost server and reimage this one and just cut my losses...

Any help appreciated.    
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