[Laurence Payne[_2_]]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:15:17 -0700 (PDT), Mike Rivers
wrote:


Another issue is why Windows Service Pack 2 won't completely install
(and therefore, I believe undoes everything it managed to cram down
the computer's throat) on the older of these two laptops. Maybe
there's something in (or missing from) the Dell version of Windows
that's keeping the update from running to completion. Or maybe it's
simply that I waited too long before trying to update to SP2 (I wanted
all of that Firewire mess to go away since Firewire audio was working
fine) and it's missing a piece that it needs to update to SP2.

Yeah. Sometimes routine maintance cuts it. But sometimes you just
have to strip it all down, clean everything and put it together again.
Rather like hardware :-)