Well hell.....Murphy's law has struck again.

I just got my computer hooked back up and running again....unfortunately that included reformatting my hard-drive and reinstalling Windows XP Home.
I use a free dial-up ISP that is scanned like crazy all the time, and now here I am with non of my updates and patches.

I've managed to get the 60 second shutdown to stop through services.msc, but am still having trouble staying connected to windows update. I havn't managed to download any of my updates.
I did download the patch mentioned above, I am wondering about the prerequisites.

I'm sure if I search posts I could find these answers already posted somewhere...but I'm trying to limit the time I spend online until I figure out what to do with this.

One last problem....I can't get a connection established from behind a firewall...I've tried with the xp firewall, as well as Nortons Firewall...both of those end up giving me "username or password is invalid on the domain" messages.


This is very irritating! (lol)