> I would recommend that you go back to Windows Update and reinstall any
> and all patches that you removed. Unless I know that a patch is
> causing me a problem, I never remove one. SP2 checks to see what
> patches are already installed and doesn't reinstall them.

Thanks for that it done the job, but when instructed to restart the computer
and I complied the system wouldn't restart, even from the start command.
Also the last time I shut down by the power button and that's when the
system was looping to just before the welcome screen.
So I closed my internet connection opened task manager and shut down my AV
program/Trend spyware/ad-watch/norton ghost tray and fortunately the system
restarted, thought I'd mention it incase it's helpfull to anyone else.

Once again thanks to all.


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Thanks

> > "Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:#6B1#cH5FHA.884@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:13:39 +0000 (UTC), p.mc wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've just reformatted WinXP Home with SP1, so I downloaded and
> >> > installed
> > the
> >> > updated hotfixes from Microsoft windows update site, I then
> >> > downloaded
> > some
> >> > other non critical but recomended fixes, but I noticed in Add and
> >> > remove
> >> > that about 20 of the fixes had (SP2) in the title so I deleted
> >> > them
> > thinking
> >> > it was part of SP2, they did give a warning but to my deeep shame
> >> > I
> > ignored
> >> > it.."sigh"
> >>
> >> Normal. Hot fixes marked SP2 are those that were released between
> >> SP1 and
> >> SP2. Folks that have SP2 installed, see their hot fixes marked with
> >> SP3.
> >>
> >> For the display issues: Check your display settings. Is 32 bit
> >> color
> >> available? If yes, use it. If it was available and is now gone,
> >> reinstall
> >> your display driver.
> >>
> >> If themes still seems broken, check out the theme topics on this
> >> page:
> >> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm
> >> --
> >> Sharon F
> >> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
> >
> >
>
>