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Corey said:I am a registered partner with Microsoft and fix PCs for a living. I also
loaded a PC with XP (original), installed SP2 and then SP3 (the full network
install version I keep handy on my flash drive). Windows downloaded a few
updates of it's own automatically and I allowed them to be installed. Then I
installed some programs (Legacy Family Tree, AVG 8 Free, Quicktime, Adobe 8
Reader, and Office 97) and tried to install some driver updates from the
Windows Update Site. I also could not get any updates to load - NOT EVEN THE
GENUINE ADVANTAGE VALIDATION TOOL.
I tried the suggested fix and it worked. This is a common problem when
spyware has disabled these DLL files, but this time either one of those
programs or SP3 has done it. My guess is that it was SP3. I hope this helps
MS to find out what has happened and how to fix it with SP3.1.
Corey