From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I've had a few of those too.  The recent HP that I labored over for days is
one.  Gave it back to it's owner and asked if they needed a boat anchor, as
that's all this machine was good for.  Copied all their data files off, and
junked the machine.  They bought a new Dell, and are very happy (except
hooking up to the internet before installing a firewall got the machine
contaminated in 7 minutes.  Took and hour to clean up, but now all is well.

I wonder how soon new machines will show up with SP2 installed?

--
Glenn M.


"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Glenn,
>
> Thanks - I indeed have come close to a reinstall. I will first try Geo's
> last suggestion and if that doesn't work, I will reinstall. After that I
> still can burn the machine ritually at midnight when there's a full moon!
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:07:42 -0500, Glenn Meadows 
> wrote:
>
> > Thees,
> >
> > I've seen this before, on a friends XP machines. Someway, somehow, she
> > had
> > gotten something downloaded to her machine that totally broke the TCPIP
> > side
> > of things. The only thing that fixed it, was a total re-install.  I
> > believe
> > that I was able to do an upgrade install, which kept all the installed
> > apps
> > in place, but just reinstalled the OS.  That brought it all back to
> > working
> > again.
> >
> > I've seen somewhere on the internet, a program that is supposed to
repair
> > broken TCPIP installs.  Might have to be a last resort at this point.
> >
>

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