SP2 & print spooler service problem

[rlthornt]

Last night I installed SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop running XP Pro. All appeared to go well until I tried to access a shared printer on another PC. Got an error message saying can't locate printers because print spooler service is not running. Checked services and found that print spooler was running. Stopped and restarted. Still got the same error when trying to access shared printers.

Also had a problem with Outlook Express. It can't connect to the mail server (Comcast). Nor can IE access the internet.

The laptop connects via a Netgear 802.11a wireless setup. It had a little problem connecting initially after the update but finally did. My other machine is an emachines desktop running XP Home. No problems with the update on it.

Has anyone experienced similar problems?

 

[rlthornt]

Problem solved. It was the wireless adapter. Apparently the Netgear Configuration Utility won't run properly under SP2. I disabled it and let Windows manage the wireless network. It started working immediately. All the printers and shares became available.