Windows Explorer has done it again!

[Outer_Heaven]

- Control Panel & System properties is accessible.

If you can access the Control Panel & System, can't you access system restore by first selecting the Performance and Maintenance option, the bottom left icon when you open the Control Pannel menu, then select it and you should see a "System Restore" optioin under the See Also option on the top left of the Performance and Maintenance menu?

[scratchONtheBOX]

Thank you for the quick tip, Outer_Heaven.

Have tried accessing it and found out that the update cleared my original Restore Point.

Anyway, anyway, I've done the quickest way... CLEAN INSTALL ON ANOTHER PARTITION. And now I'm on the peak of checking the messed-up XP. Digging digging digging...

Thanks again, guys!

I am almost finished with the new installation and doing lots and lots of update with AV, FIREWALL, ANTI-SPYWARE/ADWARE (good guys) and the rest.

If ever, any more comments and suggestion would be gladly and happily appreciated.

Yo!

[Outer_Heaven]

Walang anuman pare

[scratchONtheBOX]

So, you've learned some Filipino Language? And been to the Philippines several times, huh? Where, in Subic? or Clark? Or the Southern part? Anyway, glad to hear the language again.

Thanks again (Salamat ulit)!

Yo!

[fractal.design]

Did you try to get your paws on an Uncorrupt version of eplorer.exe ? From another box somewhere?

at any rate it doesnt sound like that would do though, seeing as all MS code is so intensively insestuously intertwined.

Good luck with your new partition!

[scratchONtheBOX]

fractal.design,

Hi!

I've done some work-around with the explorer.exe (back it up first) and had copy from another partition (good XP), but it didn't work. I've also messed up with the uninstall procedure for the updates, but it turns out to be a more complicated situation, LoLz.

What I learned from this case is, to try to back it up before updating... And now I am doing it everytime there is a moajor update with XP.

Now I am running 2 XP OS's... both with backup schedules and such... still observing other issues when it comes.

And now I sleep...

Cheers!

Yo!

[Cope57]

I was going to suggest that you do a dual boot if you were going to do a reinstall.

1. You can learn another OS while still able to use one you are familiar with.
2. When your OS has a problem, you can boot to the other OS and see if it has the same problem or if it is just OS related and not PC related.
3. AtheOS, BeOS, DOS, BSD, Linux, Another Microsoft Windows, Minix, OS/2, and UNIX to name a few is what you can learn by having a dual boot system.

Just a thought, knowledge is power...

[scratchONtheBOX]

Cope57,

I had done several multiboot system before.

Using Windows 98, Win2K Server, WinXP, and Red Hat Linux (the combination of these OS's). It's kinda quite a good learning experience but I need more time for it.

For the case of what I am doing right now, 2 XP OS's I am doing this way for isolating issues pertaining to updating XP (perhaps something to do with HARDWARE since the BoX is coming old), once this procedure I am doing will be stable in the coming 3 months, I will definitely retain one stable OS (XP). But for the time being, what I am doing is (in a routine basis), update OS 1 and test it, once OK (without any unstable state), back it up and do the same procedure to OS 2 and so on and so forth. It's convenient for me eventhough updating tools take some time for my dial-up connection. But it's working just fine.

Thanks for the TIP about pursuing Multi-platform OS's.

Yo!

[IKnowNot]

Uh, is it me, or didn’t anyone else notice this?

explorer.exe version 6.0.2900.2055 ?

ntdll.dll ......... version 5.1.2600.2055 xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745
gdi32.dll ....... version 5.1.2600.2055 xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745
kernel32.dll .. version 5.1.2600.2055 xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745
user32.dll ..... version 5.1.2600.2055 xpsp_sp2_beta1.031215-1745

Did you try to install/update SP2 over a beta version ??

[nihil]

/slightly off topic

This tool is useful for telling you what software versions you have.

It also checks Windows updates and tells you if they have installed properly or not

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

It is free and works with all modern versions of Windows. It gives you other system information. Sure there are more detailed hardware information tools out there but this is the best one I have found so far for software.

Only about 700k of download as well, so it isn't bloatware