Damned Windows Update!!!!
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Why can't they get it right? I scanned my system for updates, resulting in 9 Critical, 10 Windows 2000, and 3 Drivers. Since I support PCs for people, I try to do what an average user would do, so I clicked install per the ambiguous instructions. No problem there, and the first one downloaded nicely. But when it finished installing and was headed back to get the next, a popup announced that I had to re-install SP2, else my system would become unstable! At this point, an average home or business user will be scared out of his/her wits, and will re-insert the SP2 CD (which most people do not have - they downlaod SPs). Since this was a post-SP2 Security rollup, I knew better, and clicked the "Piss Off!" button. But most users, if they had the CD, would try to follow meekly along with the ridiculous error message, thereby almost ensuring that the next time they boot, the system will definitely be unstable. Morons!!!! The installation process should disable temporarily any process that will interfere with it, then restore the proper operation! A restart was necessary, of course, after each of the 4 or so updates I performed, and in all but one case, the update caused the shutdown to fail - I had to manually cycle power to make it reboot! They told me in Phoenix during the Beta 3 release that there are only five things you can do to Win2K that require a re-boot; they didn't mention that installing one of their trivial updates was one of them!!! Pinheads!!! Microcephalic, Recto-cranially inverted imbeciles!!!! Whew. I feel much better now. Thanks :-D On the bright side, it repaired the goofy behavior I've been experiencing in IE5.5, and I snagged a new DirectX and MediaPlayer version, along with the .NET Framework. Quite a trying 30 minutes, though... I Drowned Schroedinger's Stupid Cat!