DirectX 9.0c problem

[Lissa]

Well, I figured out what was keeping me from upgrading.  A long while back I made use of Black Viper's services tweaks in order to tweak my system's performance a bit; apparently, without the Cryptographic Service running, you can't install any sort of DirectX.

Of course, once I had fixed that problem, my machine started rebooting as soon as it got to the 'welcome' screen.  So I bit the bullet and reinstalled Windows - I probably lost 10 gigs of files, but it also cleaned out 3 or 4 gigs of garbage files I've never been able to get rid of as well (let me put it this way: my machine was so fouled up the Disk Cleanup wizard would hang).

So far I've installed ZoneAlarm, the critical Windows Update hotfixes, and SP1.&nbsp; In the morning I need to grab everything else (san SP2) from WU, then grab GetRight, AVG, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a ton of other utilities before I can even think about reinstalling any games.&nbsp; <_<
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Should have tried a repair first before running a reinstall. Repair might have fixed that without you losing all those files.