Funny Story

Funny Story. Add or Remove programs simply stopped showing anything in its
programs list. Just blank. No message saying it would take a few minutes
to populate the list. Nothing. Changed sort options to see if I could wake
it up. NADA. It cycled like it thought it was changing the sort order of a
populated list of nothing. Very odd. I tried restarting several times,
like 5 I think. NADA. Still no programs in the list.

So, thinks I, better get my butt onto an XP newsgroup and see what is to be
said about this. So I did. I even dillegently read through all the recent
entries to see if someone posted something abou this and SP3. No entries.
So I opened this very entry that I am typing in right now. I decided to
give it one more try and BAM it works.

Just like taking your car to the mechanic and the noise goes away.

"Louis Sequin" <sequin_louis@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:OnLBgpLsIHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Funny Story. Add or Remove programs simply stopped showing anything in
its
> programs list. Just blank. No message saying it would take a few minutes
> to populate the list. Nothing. Changed sort options to see if I could
wake
> it up. NADA. It cycled like it thought it was changing the sort order of
a
> populated list of nothing. Very odd. I tried restarting several times,
> like 5 I think. NADA. Still no programs in the list.
>
> So, thinks I, better get my butt onto an XP newsgroup and see what is to
be
> said about this. So I did. I even dillegently read through all the
recent
> entries to see if someone posted something abou this and SP3. No entries.
> So I opened this very entry that I am typing in right now. I decided to
> give it one more try and BAM it works.
>
> Just like taking your car to the mechanic and the noise goes away.
>
>

Do you know how many times I've puzzled over a problem
and looked for soultions and come up blank...
only to come up with the answer the moment *after*
I've hit the "send" button...<G>