Great, thanks, try it out in vmware while we get started. Get an "untouched" XP SP2 cd (not sp3) ready.
A new problem has cropped up today... the "dvbfix" url mentioned on these forums, for latest tve3 server build, is dead....! We need a new, more reliable host for the files asap. I'm not happy hosting those files on any servers I have access to
I suppose the alternative is for Bluepill to download the whole MCE rollup2, and extract those 2 small files from it
Finally, I just saw an SP3 problem on a Bluepill machine .. first of all, the machine hung whilst shutting down after applying SP3, and after reboot, no other machines could even ping it. In the end, I had to ENABLE the firewall and it started working again, then i disabled it, and it's still working. Now how to do that programatically.... I suppose having had disabled services before installing SP3 mucked something up (ipsec, firewall, ics, WMI were all 'Disabled').