🚀 go-pugleaf

That's why I didn't install SP2 until now.
New boxes come with it, they run fine, existing ones, I think I'll leave
them until replacement.
Save lots of troubles.

Jan

"MWB" <mwb&a@adelphia.net> schreef in bericht
news:MKGdncW0kJ8m8ZHfRVn-qg@giganews.com...
> OK:
>
> XP Service Pack 2 is a dog with fleas.  It installs without organic
Application
> Compatibiliy Tools - even for Administrator level.  Here's how I spent my
> Friday:
>
> Go to Microsoft.com, find XP support files, backtrack through info links
to
> original (2 years old) Compatibility Fixes, eventually run across
"Application
> Compatibility Tools 3.0", download this!  Establish new AutoCAD 2000
installer
> Compatibility Database, Run Application Comptibility Fix to emulate NT
4.0,
> Test run, get past stupid OS crashbox, cancel ACAD 2000 install, save new
> database, "install" new fix, run ACAD 200 msetup.exe for real.....
>
> This is more frustration than I had building my entire new "monster box"
from
> scratch!  Sheesh.  The things these megacorps leave out of their flagship
> products make me wanna move to Antarctica & live in a pup tent.  <:-O
>
> Myriad nods to those who chipped in on this thread.  Unhappily, I'm
> extra-positive I'll be a-postin' again (I hope not *soon*) with further
> mysteries.
>
> TATF (thanx after the fact),
> ==Matt==
>