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khenry
Make that a third installation of XP Pro. To cut a long story short it was my separately downloaded SP3 which caused my crashout, strange GDI32.dll errors and a reinstall last night, though it was largely unattended this time and wasn’t the main PC. Both machines were re-imaged and this time, the update was sought from Windows update only and worked along the lines of the CPC feature. There were no hassles and no errors despite leaving on my Antivirus software’s tray icon when I restarted.
Aside from deciding to auto detect my integrated audio after I’ve disabled it in the BIOS, which can be solved by disabling again in Device Manager, everything else is business as usual and the new build is ready for Vista whenever I want to reinstall it.
Hopefully by the end of the month the magazines, including Microsoft’s official title, will have a universal covermount along the lines of Service Pack 2 four years ago, which will install on any machine. For the moment, unless you’re one of the lucky ones who updated from a release candidate or pre RMS error download, go straight to Windows Update as directed. Or straight to Vista, since its service pack seems to just work…
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