Always backup before doing a service pack install! Once you've gone down the "oh no, what now batman?" road a few times you'll *never* install *any* software without backing up first.
You may be able to go into start_settings_control panel_Add/Remove Programs and find the service pack and deinstall it; that is if it is not one of the upgrades that are non-removable. I had a complete meltdown in 12/2003 - first the drive broke down, then on a new drive 2 days later my motherboard fries (Merry Christmas to me, not). I put a new system together, grabbed my data files from backup, upgraded from win98 to w2000 loaded all my apps from scratch and all I had left was to load Norton AV. It crashed and burned and I had to start over. Now when I put a system together, I do a quick backup after each app install. Sometimes it really pays to be paranoid!!!!! hth, Allen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Baruch Salamander Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Windows Service Packs When "things broke", what was done in order to restore the system to its previous condition? [email protected] writes: >Things broke! > >Look out for extra security settings that magically appear, new >services, etc, etc. I have a personal vendetta against the automatic >download and install of service packs. I turn it off. Nothing like >having a server update itself overnight and come up in the morning >with some new spiffy security settings. > >Look out for the restrictive firewall settings too. I turn that off >as well. One of my pet peeves with windoze is that it's too damn easy >to run workstation class software on a server. Trim out all the anti >viral crap (you don't allow any of the "unwashed masses" to map drives >to your production machine now do you?). Turn off the auto downloads >of everything under the sun (you don't really give a damn about the >latest update to Outlook Express because you've already removed it >right?). > >You get the drift, trim down all the extraneous junk on those winoze >servers and you might find that they wake up and do some real work for >a change! :-) > >On 8/16/05, Baruch Salamander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone experienced problems when Windows Service Packs were >installed >> along with automatic security updates on W2000? If so, please explain >what >> happened? >> ------- >> u2-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
