Iis SP2 disabled it?HELP

[acdoktor 0]

since the installation of sp 2 now it seems i cant use or reinstall MY IIS program , windows server 2003 or get any of my server managers to work correctly can any body shed light on this , in the install windows component panel it shows that it is not installed and when i try to reinsall it many of the dll and other files cannot be found i am now totaly lost in resolving this prob i am running XP PRO by the way any help will be rewarder by undieing gratitude and admiration lol

[kokushta 0]

since the installation of sp 2  now it seems i cant use or reinstall  MY IIS program , windows server 2003 or get any of my server managers to work correctly  can any body shed light on this  , in the install  windows component  panel it shows that it is not installed and  when i try to reinsall it many of the dll and other files cannot be found  i am  now totaly lost in  resolving this prob  i am running XP PRO by the way  any help will be rewarder by undieing gratitude and admiration lol

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I am having the same problem too and I'm planning drastic measures: Formating my HDD and Never, say Never update Windows, cos all those fixes do a mess.

I'm not sure this is the way, but I (myself) got no choise..

[DanThMan 0]

You should all stay away from sp2!Do a google on " xp sp2 problem " and see for yourself.If you're already using a good firewall and a good anti-virus program,there's absolutely no need for sp2!To you who's experiencing this! Format the HDD, reinstall XP and everything prior to sp2 Then everything works like a charm again Edit: I've got 1 220 000 hits on that search cheers

[MajesticTreeFrog 0]

WOW. Thats sad. I never bothered with XP, I use 2000 on my windows box. You might want to try it, its got a lots less random extra crap. If you don't need any of the things they added in XP, its otherwise the same thing, but without these problems.

[OpaQue 15]

My Suggestion. If you want to have a server envoirnment and you dont want to leave SP2, then install up an APACHE server. Only downside I see is, you dont get ASP. I also heard that , there is a mod for Apache which enables it to run aSP files. Do you have any idea about it.. If yes, I might try to get it installed on the server

[XeroTolerence 0]

or just use linux... apache comes with linux mandrake and redhat... but if u dont wanna go that far, i suggest just instaling apache on win2000, 2000 is much better for running servers than xp.