Excuse me, wild but I thought I was helping you. Sometimes there are no
quick fixes. I don't know what you are doing wrong. I had been trying to
figure it out You say no clean up can clean up your disc? How bad is it? Have
you used defrag ? Not clean up, defrag. I am sorry you felt no one helped
you. Good luck.
R

"Wildepad" wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:53:45 +1100, "johnf"
wrote:
True, wildepad said it ['in B/W' in par 1] -
" Since it was time for a good disk cleaning, I figured I might as well
install SP2 - "all other attempts [Past tense] corrupted the computer"

Surely back then that would have been a warning signal that there was a
problem in the OS somewhere, rather than waffling on later with steps 1-5
[Current Sense].
(something about shutting the barn door....? - & probably learning how to do
a system clean-up first & homework on installing SP2?)

I install and remove software quite often, which leads to left-behind
files, stray registry entries, etc. which no clean-up is going to
completely eradicate.

When I tried to install SP2 before, I just let the automatic updates
handle it. It corrupted the computer beyond hope. I tried again by
doing a complete system restore, installing all the updates except for
SP2, installing and checking out all my apps, and then installing SP2.
It again corrupted the computer beyond all hope.

Since no one (not HP, MS, or anyone in this group) could/would lend
assistance, in the interest of getting back to using the computer
instead of fighting it, I simply did another complete system recovery
and installed the normal updates and my apps, leaving SP2 for some
later date.

That later date is now, so I tried a different approach -- from
absolutely clean slate, I installed SP2 _before_ installing any apps.


If you are capable of being helpful, perhaps you would like to point
out which step in the process was wrong . . .