You know what else happens is once i do get the damn thing booted up, after a while I get the "Rundll32.exe error" messsage popping up again and again and again and again and then I re-boot to get rid of it and then I`m right back where I started, having to re-boot over and over and over and over. It drives me NUTS!
It's frustrating! Hang in there...write down the EXACT error you're getting and make a list of the things it does to you...then use these notes to ask some of these online experts where to start to fix the problem. Good luck!
check to see if there are any other windows critical updates you need...
if windows calls them critical, download them.
XP service pack 2 didn't ruin your pc, you just loaded a clean service pack over a mess. You have got to be confident that you have control with
1. a firewall
2. an antivirus
3. all windows critical updates
4. several spyware cleaning programs
5. diligence in maintaining all those upgrades and updates