re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:49 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1250 messages posted) Hi Nichola. Martin has given you a brief explanation of the startup procedure to WinXP. I've had problems with service packs. Mine is WinXP 2002 SP2 so I download SP3 from Microsoft and save it to a flash drive and install it. Now I've done 3, SP3 updates over the past few weeks only the first time it worked as it should. I do a restart and Windows never starts up. I have to start in Safe Mode and uninstall SP3 from Control Panel Add/Remove. As for the Repair option of the WinXP CD I can never get that to work it comes up with invalid folder well the installation put it there. I've recently bought WinXP 2002 with SP3 so I don't have that problem now. If WinXP was a decent operating system you could save all your important files in DOS without using Windows. NTFS has no true DOS. If you have the WinXP CD then do a format and a fresh install. ALWAYS remember with WinXP backup important files, you won't be warned when problems occur. Written in response to: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:17 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 10:17 am) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 1:10 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 1:24 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 1:31 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 1:33 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 1:36 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 2:56 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 3:06 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 3:18 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 3:47 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 5:53 pm) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 2:00 am) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 2:30 am) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (nichola mackle: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 3:51 am) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (MartinM: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 5:36 am) re: sp2 removed in error cannot log on (Keith Stanier: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 5:49 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum