Problems

From: josh (joshk@directairnet.com)
Date: 12/23/02


From: "josh" <joshk@directairnet.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:40:41 -0800


have you tried add/remove programs to remove the updates?
>-----Original Message-----
>I installed the new Security packages last night and
>restarted the machine. Upon start-up, every program that
>attemps to open creates an error log and fails to open.
>
>The message is "Programname.exe has generated errors and
>will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the
>program. An error log is being created."
>
>Then I can only click Cancel. Is there some way I can
>uninstall the security updates because they are the most
>recent thing installed, so they have got to be the
>problem. I really need help, I can only open IE.
>.
>



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