From: Paul on
Cheers Rob, I'll check out that link


"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald(a)techemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul" <notathome(a)myplace.com> wrote in message
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>>I should have posted a copy of his log:
>>
>> Here it is.
> ...
>
>
> As usual I think this log only hints at problem issues.
> You could try using ProcMon to supplement it,
> e.g. to assign much finer timestamps to each log record
> and interleave them with other event records.
> However, from the clues about problems with unnamed services
> and drivers you might get somewhere further by using bitsadmin
> to see what it thinks. E.g. its /util commands would hopefully
> test whether BITS was configured correctly and perhaps even
> whether its dependency RPCSS was running.
>
> bitsadmin is installed with the XP Support Tools and is supposedly
> also available in the XPsp2 update to that package.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838079/
>
>
> BTW the connection path may be signficant for your symptom description.
> E.g. some of these symptoms could occur if a proxy server or misconfigured
> firewall is involved. In those cases you might get more clues from
> whatever diagnostics such products provide.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>


From: Sky King on
Are the XP install files perhaps on a second (maybe hidden) partition on the
hard drive?

OR, if you have a CD with the same version of XP, and you have the Key
(normally on the outside of the case in a sticker) for his system, you can
use any CD and his Key to do the re-install.

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....Sky

Tom "Sky" King
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In news:enc64v$5vi$1(a)lust.ihug.co.nz,
Paul <notathome(a)myplace.com> wrote:
> Yup, I think he has. However, the tricky
> bit is, he doesn't have the CD. Why I don't know.
>
>
> "Sky King" <skyking(a)nospammvps.org> wrote in message
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>> Looks like your friend has multiple issues. I'd suggest doing a
>> full AV scan, a full malware scan, then an XP Repair install
>> (followed by the mandatory re-install of SP2).

From: Paul on
Thanx for the info Tom.

Looks like he got it going he also had to register
another dll file.

"Sky King" <skyking(a)nospammvps.org> wrote in message
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> Are the XP install files perhaps on a second (maybe hidden) partition on
> the hard drive?
>
> OR, if you have a CD with the same version of XP, and you have the Key
> (normally on the outside of the case in a sticker) for his system, you can
> use any CD and his Key to do the re-install.
>
> --
>
> ...Sky
>
> Tom "Sky" King
> ===========
>
>
>
> In news:enc64v$5vi$1(a)lust.ihug.co.nz,
> Paul <notathome(a)myplace.com> wrote:
>> Yup, I think he has. However, the tricky
>> bit is, he doesn't have the CD. Why I don't know.
>>
>>
>> "Sky King" <skyking(a)nospammvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:O8ZbQ$eLHHA.1044(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Looks like your friend has multiple issues. I'd suggest doing a
>>> full AV scan, a full malware scan, then an XP Repair install
>>> (followed by the mandatory re-install of SP2).
>