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More info?)
Thanks Bert,
Have Home Edition SP2 with all current "Hotfixs" and undates. Already Update
"Notify".
Current on all IE6 updates.
Received all your suggestions, including custom downloads; previously from
"Trend Micro using " PC-cillin" as spyware protection. This updates every
time I log on.
Also use Spyblocker(current) and Spybot "Search & Destroy" Current Version
2.61.
Also, Use TUT to trouble shoot system. Also received nearly identical
suggestions from TUT.
Still Looking.
Thank You,
--
justandhp
"Bert Kinney" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to confirm, the system in question has WinXP Pro SP2?
>
> Are you using Automatic Updates? If so turn off Automatic Updates and set it to " Notify,
> but do not download or install. Now go to the Windows Update site and click the Custom
> button. Make a list of what's offered and post them here.
>
> Also post the latest entries from the WindowsUpdate.log. The last 30 should do.
> 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
> 2. In the Open box, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log, and then click OK.
>
> Are there any "Symantec" applications installed on the system?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
>
http://bertk.mvps.org
>
>
> marmay wrote:
> > Sorry Bert,
> > Ms. P's problem was not with System Restore but the
> > "Software Distribution Service Ver. 2.0" that keeps
> > showing up as a restore point. Other's including myself
> > have problems with lost sound, lost printer connections,
> > etc. When these things happen, you can restore at that
> > point and the problems are solved until the program
> > runs again. What determines when it runs is undetimed.
> > Sometimes it will run once, twice a day or run itself but
> > once a week or month.
> > You never know when it will happen but you certainly know
> > when it does.
> >
> > As I understand the original basic question: Where did
> > the program come from and How do you get rid of it?
> >
> > There are any number of sites discussing this problem and
> > it seems to be eluding the best minds.
> >
> > Microsoft seems to be avoiding the problem because I
> > think it came from in house and they don't know who or
> > where or how to get rid of it.
> >
> > Still looking?????????
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Please describe the problem your having with System
> >> Restore.
> >>
> >> All About System Restore in WinXP
> >> http://bertk.mvps.org/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> >>
http://bertk.mvps.org
> >>
> >>
> >> marmay wrote:
> >>> I have reviewed Google(confused) and Miss Perspicacia
> >>> Tick thru the 3/26 response of Tdazzler. Also another
> >>> community on this sub. thru July. Has anyone come up
> >>> with a solution.
> >>> I realize this should proberly be a new posting but
> >>> since this stopped on 3/26,
> >>> thought might have been resolved thru individual e-mail
> >>> correspondence. Any solution...Please advise and thank.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Miss Perspicacia Tick Wrote:
> >>>>> I have Googled for this until I am blue in the face
> >>>>> but there is something
> >>>>> definitely up with my SR. There are points there that
> >>>>> I KNOW I didn't create
> >>>>> (Software Distribution Service 2.0 and Installed Your
> >>>>> Application Name) and
> >>>>> they're occuring at the rate of around one every eight
> >>>>> seconds (I have
> >>>>> added up the difference between the points that are
> >>>>> listed and averaged
> >>>>> them) and the Software Distribution Service with the
> >>>>> same monotonous regularity.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Running XP Pro with SP2 (and all latter updates). Also
> >>>>> running .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (required for some of
> >>>>> my apps)
> >>>>> MP10 (fully updated)
> >>>>> Office 2003 Pro SP1
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am convinced it's caused by a hotfix, but which one
> >>>>> I have no idea.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have uploaded an image here
> >>>>> (http://tinyurl.com/6rkoa) because I'm
> >>>>> not very good at explaining what I mean. I hope the
> >>>>> image helps. As it is,
> >>>>> in effect, killing SR (I cannot restore to points
> >>>>> post-SDS2.0 - and, yes,
> >>>>> I've purged and reset). The system is on 24/7, yet no
> >>>>> automatic points have
> >>>>> been created in over a week and, as I've just said, I
> >>>>> cannot restore post-SDS.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is this a known issue (KB didn't help either)? If so,
> >>>>> what's the solution?
> >>>>> If not, has this happened to anyone else and, if so,
> >>>>> did you solve it - and
> >>>>> how?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Facon - the artificial bacon bits you get in Pizza Hut
> >>>>> for sprinkling on
> >>>>> salads.
> >>>>
> >>>> Miss P
> >>>> I have been struggling with "something" taking over or
> >>>> disabling my internet explorer browser for about a
> >>>> month now. At first is suspected AOL 9.0 security
> >>>> edition because the symtoms appeared just after I
> >>>> installed that. I would get DNS error cannot connect
> >>>> to server. Actually I could ping a numeric internet
> >>>> address with IE but not a name.
> >>>> I tried numerous things to no avail. I was about to
> >>>> Reformat, clean install Windows XP and just prior to
> >>>> that, I uninstalled Norton Internet Security.
> >>>> My Internet Explorer came back working fine! Since
> >>>> then, I downloaded AVG, Zone Alarm, and Microsoft
> >>>> Antispyware Beta. Now if I leave my computor on
> >>>> overnight. I'll show the "Software Distribution
> >>>> Service 2" appearing overnight about 3:05 AM wich is
> >>>> usually just after the Microsoft Anti-spyware finishes
> >>>> running. When "SDS2" appears as a restore point,
> >>>> neither of my browser's IE or Firefox will work until
> >>>> I restore before that. I know how to cure the problem,
> >>>> I just don't know how to prevent it. It is a great
> >>>> nusiance as I recently installed a Dell printer. After
> >>>> I had to restore, the printer could not be found. What
> >>>> else will I be losing if I have to keep restoring every
> >>>> day I leave my CPU on overnight. Feel free to contact
> >>>> me Tdazzler@aol.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Tdazzler
>
>
>
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