First thought is to do System Restore to a date prior to the updates

Do the installs again & see what happens.......

I've done all that per the other post - I guess maybe I shoulda kept it to 1 post afterall... Could you check out the other one and advise, please? Thanks - Shep

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Posts merged.

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SP3 IS GONE!!! SP3 IS GONE!!! SP3 IS GONE!!! SP3 IS GONE!!!

I don't know if this is sticky worthy or not, BUT...

I finally found out how to uninstall SP3. Even when Add/Remove programs won't do it. Even when you mess up and run System Restore before you uninstall it.

C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\uninst\

In this folder is a .exe for service pack 3 uninstall. Worked when nothing else would.

If I remember right, when I installed SP3 it gave me an option to create an uninstall, I believe this is that option.

A BIG THANKS TO ALL who stepped to to work on this on my behalf - i appreciate it very much, Shep

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Shep you are ost welcome.

We are glad it is all sorted out for you(no installing SP3 RC again).

Thankyou for getting back to us will mark thread as resolved.

Good fix will remember that one.

Thankyou.

Miss Jelly Bean.

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Nice... thread is stuck (for a while anyway--just in case)... good job

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hey man, i think we had the same problem, and my frined gave me that exact same answer as on how to uninstall SP3. However, for me my recovery console isn't working and I don't know why. When i type in a command in the C:\ it tells me to insert a floppy disk or cd. I don't think it recognizes that i have a C drive or something. Myne must be really corrupted. But we pretty much had the exact same problem, i just gotta figure out how to get recovery console to recognize my C partition.