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by jim

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After applying all XP patches just fine, I applied SP2 and Explorer stopped functioning on java and pdf pages. I spent two weeks with MS techs and nothing, even reinstalling XP cured the problem. I think the only thing left is to reformat and reinstall. If I do that I will go back to W2K. No time to play with XP. Anyone seen this before? Get it cured?

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by tomsal

I have XP Pro at home and IE 6, ever since I installed the SP2 patch, sometimes now if I'll try and open a web page from the run command it won't work. Or if I have a web page minimized on the tool bar and click it to open , it won't open.

I usually have to open a webpage by clicking on the "E" icon and then go to my site.

by hal 9000

I spent quite a lot of time reinstalling XP {about 30 times I think} and when I had exhausted all of MS susposed help I then turned around and removed everything except a DVD HDD monitor keyboard mouse. After several days and numerious attempts at throwing the whole thing into a swimming pool with the power turned on it all came down to the DVD drive and the IDE lead. It was a Samsung DVD drive and a new IDE lead. you could load XP from these but not install SP1. So before you go looking for software problems try to make sure that you have no hardware conflicts and don't rely on the XP tester as it told me everything was just fine thank you very much.

by hal 9000

Today I noticed on my personal computer running XP Pro with all the patches and Service Packs installed that while Outlook express would work just fine it had lost its ability to perform a spell check on any E-Mails that I typed in and then attempted to run a spell check on. I think that this is just one of the unlisted and unreported features of SP1. Its no wonder that we always install these patches on an isolated computer and then put them through their paces before comiting the entire network to installing every new patch as they become available.

by hal 9000

As after teh Legal action that MS won they are no longer required to support Jarva and have realeased SP1a which they don't recomend you install. They are working on their own version of a Jarva script that should be available in a latter Service Pack in the next month or two.

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