Dear Bill G

[Magnum]

Dear Microsoft and Bill Gates,

Why did your company break my fax modems with Service Pack 3 ?

Have I gone onto your property and broken some of your "stuff" ?

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Since the post, I went back and did a System Restore to before SP3 was applied and my fax service works again. So apparently there is a problem with SP3 and a working SP2 Windows Fax Service IMHO.

Another issue that occured during my troubles was; after opening the Fax Console (and not getting any services, not being able to see any previously sent faxes, etc., the system kept telling me that a Windows Shared Fax Printer Driver needed to be installed - of course there isn't a driver to install because it is already installed... nor do I have a disk to install the "driver" from, there is no "Microsoft" subheading to select a set of drivers from here nor can I find one on the MS Windows Update or Technet site. When I was finally able to get the Fax driver Properties window open, it said I was running the SP3 version.



If I have more time to waste (sarcasm), I will reinstall SP3 to get more detail than provided here, but for now, I can say that on my system SP3 broke my Fax Service.