Urgent! How can I repair windows without having to go thru the Win XP boot cd process?

Aggelos

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Feb 14, 2007, 4:21:50 AM2/14/07

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I reapaired once my windows XP SP2 installation and when I went back
in the OS I downloaded all updates via windows update. THey were
around 80 maybe over a 100 I can't remember. But once I did all the
updates I think my windows have been corrupted again.

So I try to install an antivirus (Kaspersky) and it says something
like : The windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can
accir if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows
Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personel
for assistance. <OK>

I look in Microsofts knowledgbase but there is nothing that solved my
problems...

The other problem I have is that for exampe when you open MSN it tells
you how many new emails you got. You click on it and it takes you to
hotmail. Mine doesn't do anything anymore.

A lot of suchh weird things happening and I am really pissed off
because I cannot leave work to format my PC and re-install windows...

Any ideas or even if you know if I can get free support from Microsoft
somewhere woud be appreciated...

Thank you.

sgopus

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Feb 14, 2007, 6:13:27 PM2/14/07

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Sounds like you started with Svc Pk 1 and connected to the internet without
any kind of Av software or firewall.
a repair needs the cd, and you need to boot to it, for the repair, sorry.
I suggest you download all the necessary svc packs ahead of time, yes there
are a lot, and security updates, you can order the cd's instead of
downloading.
get a good firewall program, zone alarm or something else, whatever you
prefer, besides windows firewall, it sucks.

Aggelos

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Feb 15, 2007, 4:43:27 AM2/15/07

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On Feb 14, 11:13 pm, sgopus <sgo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you started with Svc Pk 1 and connected to the internet without
> any kind of Av software or firewall.

Well I Have Windows XP Pro SP2 ... Once I installed them first thing I
do is to install my Kaspersky Antivirus and then start surfing the
net...
No firewall though I just use the windows firewall and my linksys
router default firewall.

I think the only answer is Format...
It is really a shame though because I am sure that some MS guru should
have the answer. Or maybe there isn't something like MS Guru :p

Thank you anyway.

Lem

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Feb 15, 2007, 11:32:59 AM2/15/07

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Have you tried all of the suggestions here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555175/en-us

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Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
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Nightowl

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Feb 15, 2007, 11:10:29 PM2/15/07

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Aggelos <djj...@gmail.com> wrote on Thu, 15 Feb 2007:

>I think the only answer is Format...

Maybe not. . .:-)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346 sounds like your problem. Hope it
helps.

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Nightowl

Aggelos

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Feb 20, 2007, 5:05:18 AM2/20/07

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> >I think the only answer is Format...
>

> Maybe not. . .:-)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346sounds like your problem. Hope it
> helps.

Thank you too !
(Msg to people with similar problems)----> Try the above link
suggestions... it could work... I haven't tried it as I formated
before I saw those posts...