Reply to Re: A question from a computer illiterate
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
Hmm. My guesses:
1) A combination of Ad-Aware activity on restart as well as the recent installation of SP2 removed some critical files, or changed some critical settings. As a general rule, only allow one program at a time to 'do it's thing' on restart.
2) SP2 doesn't like your computer. This has happened to others as well.
Either way... I'm not sure how you would go about fixing it
If you have the original Windows XP install CD, you can try to insert that before the computer boots up, and it should give you access to some sort of 'repair console' of sorts. There might even be an automated 'repair' option.
If you could at least get back into Windows, you could use System Restore to go back to a point before you did anything... darn.
Couple things I found.
1) You don't happen to have a UMAX Scanner hooked up, do you?
2) You might be able to remove SP2 using the Recovery Console.
1) A combination of Ad-Aware activity on restart as well as the recent installation of SP2 removed some critical files, or changed some critical settings. As a general rule, only allow one program at a time to 'do it's thing' on restart.
2) SP2 doesn't like your computer. This has happened to others as well.
Either way... I'm not sure how you would go about fixing it
If you have the original Windows XP install CD, you can try to insert that before the computer boots up, and it should give you access to some sort of 'repair console' of sorts. There might even be an automated 'repair' option.If you could at least get back into Windows, you could use System Restore to go back to a point before you did anything... darn.
Couple things I found.
1) You don't happen to have a UMAX Scanner hooked up, do you?
2) You might be able to remove SP2 using the Recovery Console.
