XP Meltdown Help sought

I had the misfortune of losing my abilty to login to XP on my business laptop this week. I use the laptop for business and without it, I am out of business. I am told there is a bug that hangs the registry on a laptop that uses the USB ports. Does anyone have any knowledge of this?

The cure seemed to be a reinstall of the OS and after that, I took a trip to windowsupdate.com and put in all 41 upgrades. I think Office XP counted 12 including SP1 and 2. Thank God for Cable modem as those were huge.

The only tweak I could not recover was mail, and I see it as easier to just manually set up everything as I have tweaks like rules to recover also.

I have noted it is slow and ran adaware, could the deep scanning have altered the registry?

 

not sure about the bug in the laptops...Fw190 might know more about that one.
As for the system being slow, there was an update posted that updated a file that was responsible for memory management. This change apparently slows down system performance. With SP2, this will be remedied. In the mean time you can uninstall it.

refer to this thread for more info
http://www.majorgeeks.net/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15427

 

never heard about that bug or sen it in action. Usually when XP hangs on boot it is registry or service related. You can restore a copy of the registry manually using the recovery mode. SOmetimes a chkdsk /r will also fix a non-booting Win XP.

 

Thanks for the reply. The problem was it never even allowed me to boot in safe mode. No command prompt in XP either. I wanted to strip it out and install Linux with WINE. Alas, I am up and trying to restore everything in M$. The only thing I could not bring over with wizards were the Office Apps and Outlook rules. A sight better than the old days of crashes with 25Mhz for sure!

 

Thanks Kodo,

The system began over time being slower. Even with the tmp files gone and with the IE cache empty it slogged on the web. Even simply usnig a Word Doc meant delay. Something was melting down for a few days last week. It went haywire on Wed. I began the rebuild at 2PM on Thurs and finished about 8PM. Office updates took about 3 hrs.

 

You referring to 815411?


Ever since MS reworded the document, I don't recieve any calls on people wanting the hotfix.


Check it out.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815411


Incidently this would not have caused boot issues.

Edit:

I assume you are referring to the ntoskrnl.exe update recently. I have had no reports of this causing boot issues, although it has made the OS sluggish otherwise.

 

Does this mean you work for M$? Or am I just up too early this morning?