Windows Problems

[Turtle Soup]

Today I had a little trouble with my printer software. So I uninstalled it, and then tried to reinstall numerous times. It finally worked. During the course of those installations I had to restart my computer etc etc. But the computer did not start up. It got stuck at the screen "Starting up Windows" and I had to restart two or three times before it worked.

So I ran sfc /scannow and put my windows disk in (real) and apparently it's the wrong disc. First it told me to insert the Professional disc (I have home edition) and then it said to insert the home edition disc.

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It wont do anything. The disc is there and working. But nothing happens. Also, when I tried to install the printer software, I got the error "system/win32/services.exe has closed" then the computer retstarted. I did a spyware/virus scan but it came up negative.

please help, thanks.

[bradc1988]

Errr only advice I can offer is that it might have to do with the service packs for XP. My XP disc won't work because it has SP-1 or something when I've updated to SP-2.

I ran into that problem when I tried reinstalling MS Paint and Minesweeper, I still miss them and Jasc PS takes friggin ages to load.

Other than that, I got nothing.

[pppoe]

I have a Windows problem too, I suppose.

Whenever I reboot my computer, it asks me if I want to run one of three things:
- Windows XP Home Edition
- Windows XP Home Edition (bootscreen)
- Windows XP Home Edition (recovery mode)

I'm not too sure that last option is right, but it displays those three things whenever I start up my computer. It's not bad, but it's slightly annoying. I went into advanced options to see if I could have it go with one option all the time, but there's nothing for that.

Plz.

[Rats!]

that window keeps coming up because you have SP2 installed and your cd is probably the original XP or SP1. I think it's time to reformat

[Turtle Soup]

Last time I did the sfc it worked fine.

[Phill]

The only thing I can think of is to run a repair install on your operating system. It sounds like when you installed service pack 2 it has messed something up somewhere.
Have you tried to run a system restore back a few days to see if that clears the problem?