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damaged Activex and cannot download SP2

by angelian Feb 13, 2006 2:16AM PST

Hello
After some viruses and trojans and dialers and a few system restores and just about everything else on a relative's computer we have a damaged activex which cannot be repaired and although SP2 is in add/remove programs,it is no longer on the machine.Due to the damaged activex we cannot download from Microsoft update page.The operating system is genuine,we checked it on Microsoft to try to update software but then we got file not found.I checked the security in internet options more than two times and they were correct too,we checked crytographic services and they were running,this was because we would get the message which says setup could not verify the intergrity of the update.inf.make sure the crytographic services is running on the computer.it seems that the activex is one of the culprits right now.I even tried to change the security settings lower at one point but to no avail.question is,I know that activex controls can dowloaded from cnet and others but which do I download or any other site to start the fixes.There was not a working antivirus on the machine but I did install one and antispyware too.
Computer is Emachine T2042 runninig Windowsxp Home
The reason why this is a problem is because the XP disk which came with the computer cannot be found so we cannot reinstall from disk.

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Angelian, Please Reinstalling Service Pack 2...

by Grif Thomas Former Forum moderator Feb 13, 2006 3:54AM PST

..from the link below. (If you already have one of the Service Pack 2 installers on a CD, then use that instead.) It appears like Internet Explorer has become corrupted and needs to be repaired.. ON a second computer with a broadband connection, please download the full Service Pack 2 installer from the link below. (It's a REALLY large file of 266 MB so you'll need broadband) Burn the file to a CD, then transfer it to the "problem" computer and reinstall SP2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

There are other ways to go about this, such as running the IEFix Utility from the link below which should fix Internet Explorer and the ability to use ActiveX, but it won't cure the problem with the SP2 issue. Running the SP2 installer from above should fix both problems.:

IEFix Utility
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Hope this helps.

Grif

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