Windows

[revchris.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Installing winXP w/spP2, and then updating to SP3 without first visiting windows update breaks windows update by leaving wups2.dll unregistered.

Stupid windows.

Comments

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Surprised?

Not so much.

[superbus.livejournal.com]

You didn't do all the regular security patches before going straight to SP3, I take it?

I mean, I would figure SP3 would take care of that, but this IS Microsoft...

[gashach.livejournal.com]

you also need to update windows installer to 3.1 or else you cant do any installs in sp3.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

I initially read this as "upgrade to Windows 3.1".

And I kind of agreed.

[revchris.livejournal.com]

Somewhere I think I may still have Windows 3.1 media. Now, can I find a computer it'll still run on.....

I managed to miss the installer problem, something else I installed may have fixed that for me.

[revchris.livejournal.com]

That was what I was hoping SP3 would have done, but, apparently not.

[gashach.livejournal.com]

scary how most MS products would be considered upgrades by going to the earlier version.

[melstav]

I've actually had a couple updates do that to me in the past. I want to say it happened both on XP, and on 2K. and neither case was while installing XP SP3.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

I've done precisely that multiple times and what you describe never happened to me...

[enchanrenan.livejournal.com]

I've done it twice this week and never experienced this problem ;o

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
go get coffee
reboot (because there was likely a kernel upgrade in there somewhere)
sudo apt-get install wholepileofstuffthirtylineslong

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

I've always been amused by the filename for the Windows Update Service files: wups*.*

If you say it aloud, it sounds like, "Whoops!"

[rorted.livejournal.com]

sudo apt-get install update-notifier synaptic

Fixed!

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Those were already installed. :-)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

To someone well-versed in the use of emoticons, Windows XP looks like it should be pronounced 'Windows Blech'.