"Peter de B. Harrington" wrote in message
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Hi:

After rebuilding Windoze XP Pro SP2 for the umpteenth time, and
successfully intalling Office 2007, I was prompted to install the
Desktop Search Engine when I opened Outlook (aka LookOut) for the
first time. The system started indexing my two large harddrives and I
could not use my computer. I was basically locked out and even the
task manager was inoperable. The desktop search caused an error with
lsass.exe that resulted in my system shutting down.

On rebooting, the system entered an endless loop of BSOD and
restarting when trying to read the device drivers. I suspect that the
Desktop Search Engine installed a corrupted driver.

This problem is so bad that I cannot even boot into safe mode, so I am
hoping that I can resurrect my system with the system CD. I don't
know of any other way to get to the restore points, but when MS hoses
its operating system this badly, it looks like it will cost at least a
half a day to get back to normal.

Any suggestions on fixing this issue are appreciated, but I want to
warn other users to save them from this MS disaster. BTW, when it is
installed it works, it is worse than the default search that comes
with explorer.

Best wishes,

Pete



What happens when you instead choose "last known good configuration"
when booting into Windows? Hit F8 to get the boot menu.