Your post is far too light on details. For instance one owner installed a firewall and set it to MAXIMUM PROTECTION since they had some trojan that wiped them out and thought by setting it to the maximum would be best. Oops, that was it.
But in your case there is nothing to work with. No messages, warnings or what you've done since you installed windows.
bob
have reinstalled xp service pack 2 and now cant initialise any updates ?

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