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16-Oct-2009, 06:27 PM #1
Angry Solved: Service Pack 2 and all hope's lost...
Hi everybody,

don't know whether you'll come up with a solution to this, apart from reinstalling the whole system, but it's an interesting problem anyway and from what I've read here on the forum, maybe even a common thing.

Two days ago, my computer offered me a Service Pack 2 update for Vista. I started the installation and then shut down the computer. Next day, when I tried to play a track in Winamp, I suddenly realised something was wrong. Winamp wouldn't even start playing the track, just displaying the track in the upper window, but withnout playing it. I tried the WMP, displaying "Error opening the file" each time. The computer was suddenly mute, but with every driver "working OK". No driver update would help.

Second thing is, the computer would not download any update from Windows update from now on. Each time the download starts, i doesn't even get 1% and fails.

Third thing is, the computer starts about 1 minute slower than usually. I tried complete ESET SS scan, but nothing would be found.

Am I the only one with a problem like this? Could you suggest any solution? I'm pretty lost about it...
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16-Oct-2009, 06:42 PM #2
I would do a system restore, pick a date before install of SP2. Two ways to achieve this.


When in Windows
1. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...ystem-restore/


From the recovery environment
2. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial142.html
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16-Oct-2009, 06:45 PM #3
Thanx for the advice, I'm gonna try this!
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16-Oct-2009, 07:27 PM #4
Yes! It worked, sound is back!

Thank You very much!

Well, killing your sound card, that's what I call a Service pack!
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16-Oct-2009, 07:41 PM #5
If you feel adventurous, try installing SP2 in safe mode, download the stand alone installer and save it to a folder on the C drive, boot into safe mode and execute it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


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