Magician_

" URP1" ? I am assuming this is a Rollup Pack or something? I definately have SP4 installed. I'll have a look around for the URP1 thingy and see how it goes.

Whilst trying to install the new Windows Defender Beta 2 program on my win 2000 machine I keep getting the following message in a little pop-up box "This software required GDI+. Please load the Windows 2000 Security Software PreRequistite Pack." Now, of course I tootle off to google and have a search, but nothing is found, so I pop onto the microsoft site and do a search, nothing found. So now I am at a bit of a loss as to where to find this PreRequisite Pack. If someone could point me in the right direction to download this (or whatever it is I need to install the GDI+ libraries) I would be most grateful. Cheers.

cheers cluberti that seems to have fixed it.

For some reason as of this morning I can no longer run .msi (microsoft installation) files. Double clicking on the msi file results in the "Opens with.." window popping up as if the system does not recognise the msi extension. A check of the Windows Installer service shows that it is not running and any attempt to start it results in the 997 error occuring. Any one have any ideas where to start looking to solve this? Cheers