Oh dear!
Dell Dimension 4500, WinXP Home. Installed service Pack 2, with Virus software still functioning. My Network (Belkin 54g wireless with Packard Bell Laptop) stopped working. I uninstalled SP2, but the wireless network still didn't work. Asked some friends who said I was paranoid about SP2. Re-installed it, still forgot to turn off Virus software.
I realised this halfway through so I cancelled the installation. This seemed to work OK so I turned off the virus software and reinstalled yet again. On restart I got a message saying the setup had been interrupted. I restarted yet again and now get messages saying
"the procedure entry point SHCreate ThreadRef could not be located in the dynamic link library SHLWAPI.dll", followed by
"the procedure entry point SHRegGetValueW could not be located in the dynamic link library SHLWAPI.dll".
I click OK on these two messages and then the PC hangs, my desktop is empty. I still have my personal wallpaper and I have gone past the initial screen where I choose my user and password, but no desktop! HHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!
I have installed Broadband directly on the laptop now and am operating from there... lucky I have 2 machines!
Regards,
Roger Harris
And as now it has gotten worse..... u need to erase everything and have to do a fresh install =\
but if u need ur data,,,,, then do this, take out ur hard drive and slave it in another working system, copy ur data to the primary drive of the other system and the hook back this drive and use the recovery disks to format ur hard drive and reinstall XP as fresh !!
after installing, install a good antivirus and firewall, and then connect to internet to install all updates includig SP2 and after that install all ur other programs.
hmmmmm another SP2 destructions !! =\