I made the colossal mistake of downloading Service Pack 2 on Saturday and now have no access to my desktop icons or start button. Oddly enough I can get to the internet through an error message that pops up on the wallpaper when I boot.
I can’t just uninstall the pack. The problem is that I have no start button and I have no program icons… the only reason I can use my cable modem at all is that when I boot, an error box comes up right after the welcome screen and, if I hit the “Report Error” button, it connects me with Microsoft via Explorer and then I can type various URLs onto the “go” line and navigate the web from there. But that’s ALL I can do right now.Is there any option besides a full recovery and losing everything on my hard drive? Any help would be appreciated. Is there a way to do it from DOS?