Inline.

dimie71 wrote:
<snip>
> About SP2. When I tried SP2, I couldnt remove the warning for the
> firewall, even though my liveupdate of symantec did download some
> fix...Antivirus was easy to stop but firewall wasnt.
>
> I am doubting that for the first month SP2 was released. If MS fixed that,
> well thats good news then, still I will move to SP2 only if I have to.

Clarification for Freudi: OP installed and then uninstalled SP2 on another
WinXP machine. The machine in question here has never had SP2 installed
(IIRC).

> P.S. I started having a problem to post new messages through outlook
> express PA Bear with all these installing/uninstalling...
> I get this window after I press "send" which has no name, has 3 buttons
> and a checkbox and has no letters on it!!! Whatever button I press it does
> nothing...

Yes, this is known behavior with the 823353/897715 conflict you're trying to
resolve.

For Freudi:

- OP has also reinstalled IE and OE at least twice per
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378.

- (OT) Have you seen http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/12/16/504864.aspx
??
--
~PA Bear