Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair

Windows Secrets ^ | 27 September 2007 | Scott Dunn

[FreedomCalls]

I believe MS will work with you on providing a downgrade license to XP. Give their tech support a call, and if they can give you an XP product key, you can just use it instead.

That only applies if you are running a copy of Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. See this.

[driftdiver]

“The record companies may like it but music business people hate it”

Music people make very little money on albums. The record companies have that locked up tight. The record companies are clearly monopolistic and have successfully used price fixing to minimize further competition.

[meanie monster]

Look at this Vista sucks video. lol,,, I just spent a lot of money fixing my motherboard to avoid vista.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0sy2i5FMcI

[Squantos]

Do ya have to press one for english ?..........;o)

[Geoffery]

We do on average 4 - 5 XP repairs a week. I have not ran into this problem yet. For the most part, the repairs are the fault of the end users and not the OS. If they would stay off those porn sites their computers wouldn't keep needing repair. This is my first time posting a message here, so please excuse any spelling/grammar errors.

[Grammy]

"Music people make very little money on albums. The record companies have that locked up tight. The record companies are clearly monopolistic and have successfully used price fixing to minimize further competition."

Music business people hate vista because it doesn't work with music programs, a considerable number of which are PC based.

[LucyJo]

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[Biblebelter]

If they would stay off those porn sites their computers wouldn't keep needing repair.

Geoffery, I hear ya. I have never particularly liked Microsoft operating systems, but XP is the best thing Microsoft has produced. Of course as you say, one must stay off those porn sites. I try real hard to stay off them on purpose, and I use Trend Micro blockers to stay off them unintentionally and so far this Windows computer is working as well as my Mac laptop.

[null and void]

Welcome to FR. You’ll love the OS war threads...

[GATOR NAVY]

I made the mistake once a couple of years ago of trying to use the XP repair install. Never again. But on the other hand I’m still running on the XP clean install I had to do the repair that repair install. I don’t see vista in my future for a long time.

[toddlintown]

Vista is garbage, has no continuity from the development from 95 to XP to Vista.

It really is garbage.

[SmoothTalker]

I don’t miss running Windows at all.

[MarkL]

Sorry. My HD crashed in July. Refused Vista because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of converting Cakewalk’s Sonar software. It’s always a mess and takes me months to relearn everthing. XP installed fine. Updates installed fine. Everything working perfectly.

Not buying this story ... OR ... Vista.

I've seen it happen. Did you do a fresh install, or a repair install? If your hard drive completely crashed, you probably did a fresh install, which is different.

A repair install is for when Windows just refuses to boot, or run stably without a hardware problem. Of course, I always tell people that they're ALWAYS better off doing a fresh install. But that requires backing up your data, wiping the disk, installign Windows, then (re)installing all your applications. A repair install saves you the effort.

Mark

[Randy Larsen]

I’m having the same problem with Vista!

My new laptop is a $1800 paper weight right now!

[bmwcyle]

bttt for later

[ken21]

does anyone know anything about

jernonce.dll?

it loads with an error message when i boot up on my bill gates xp.

[texas booster]

My guess is this:

The real name of the file is “IERNONCE.DLL”. It is a file that runs the first time that IE 7 (or one of the service packs) runs after an update.

Check your startup files, probably in the registry, and delete the reference to IERNONCE.DLL.

Probably didn’t clean out the registry info after it ran once.

[supercat]

I have a laptop that won't accept a Windows XP/sp2 upgrade. It gives an "unexpected error" crash during the install. Since Microsoft doesn't seem to support non-SP2 XP anymore, is there any way to find the problem or get SP2 to work? I like my laptop otherwise, even if it's a few years old.

Otherwise, what's a good cheap laptop with real parallel and serial ports? They were hard to find a few years ago, and I doubt they've gotten easier.

[dennisw]

We do on average 4 - 5 XP repairs a week. I have not ran into this problem yet. For the most part, the repairs are the fault of the end users and not the OS. If they would stay off those porn sites their computers wouldn’t keep needing repair. This is my first time posting a message here, so please excuse any spelling/grammar errors.
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I really don’t visit those trashy places but you’ve just confirmed my suspicions. Unwitting user surfs those sites and gets his computer loaded up with malicious crap. Many porn sites are probably outside the US with lots of hooks and lures

[dennisw]

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3795070/WindowsXP_Professional_SP2

XP is downloading very fast here. Vista is slow download which says to me there is more demand for XP and people who got stuck with a new VISTA computer (only ones you can find at Best Buy, Walmart etc) want an unfettered copy of XP to slap on their new computer

Lots of demand for XP pro on ebay