From: "Randy H" 

Yup-Ran Spybot, Ad-Aware-nothing. Virus scans were also negative.

When I did my original install I did a clean install of XP, even though it
was the upgrade version.

How did you make your slipstream SP2 disk?

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:41997ecb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Scan for spyware and such?
>
> Did you install with a full or upgrade version?  What options do you see
> when you pop in the XP install disk?  Does the dialog box offer an
> "upgrade"
> install?
>
> I just did that on the "bosses" laptop at work, as his XP
Pro on his Dell
> Latitude was getting a bit "wooly".  I had made a
slipstreamed SP2 install
> disk from our original XP disk, and used that as the install, and when the
> dialog came up (when booted in XP), it offered an upgrade install.  Worked
> perfectly, and all the little gremlins seem to have gone away.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
> "Randy H"  wrote in message
> news:41997817$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Don't know when this broke  but now on my machine when you righy click on
>> Manage on My computer you get a dialog box that has Desktop in the title
> bar
>> and sports an "Access Denied" message.
>>
>> Also, the Help and Support center stopped working-try starting it, and I
> get
>> Error 126: the Specified Module Could Not Be Found. Gee, perhaps it may
>> be
>> helpful to tell us what that module is? Excsue me?
>>
>> And to add insult to injury, SFC craps out with "Windows File
Protection
>> could not initiate a scan of protected system files.
>>
>> The specific error code is 0x000006ba [The RPC server is
unavailable.]."
>>
>> And this is supposed to be "The most stable Windows yet?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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