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Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Mighty1 on August 05, 2004, 11:57:39 AM

Windows sp2 (http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/technology/windows.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes)

Not me!

Title: Re: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Masherbrum on August 05, 2004, 11:59:47 AM

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Originally posted by Mighty1
Windows sp2 (http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/technology/windows.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes)

Not me!

Not I!

Karaya

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Ohio330 on August 05, 2004, 12:04:28 PM

Sheesh, they spent 300 Million to make sp2.  They should have
spent that money going after the freegin hacks that make these
wurms/viruses.  Make em think twice.

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: zmeg on August 05, 2004, 12:05:54 PM

I've been running it for over a month, love the new firewall.




 get it here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx)

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Westy on August 05, 2004, 12:13:21 PM

I removed it about 2 mos ago.

The problems I had, for example, were getting MCafee AV to install, getting my printer recognized and a myriad of services were locked out to even the admin (all part of the security/firewall "features").

When I had enough and backed out of SP2 it brought me back to XP at a pre-SP1 level.  I therefor had to install SP1 all over again. But when I did and the PC rebooted when it tried coming back up Windows would not load at all. It was gone....trashed.  I ended up doing a complete reformat and reinstall of XP.

I recommend folks WAIT until they flesh out the many bugs that they did not fix before release. Let others be the guinea pigs. I usually do that but a coworker had great things to say about SP2. Well, until he too experienced major problems. But by then I was already knee deep it.

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Sandman on August 05, 2004, 12:13:52 PM

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Aug 2, 2004: Windows XP SP 2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Removed from the Web

This signifies the end of the pre-release distribution program in anticipation of the final release of SP2. Windows XP SP2 remains on schedule for release this month.  

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Sandman on August 05, 2004, 12:18:34 PM

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Originally posted by Ohio330
Sheesh, they spent 300 Million to make sp2.  They should have
spent that money going after the freegin hacks that make these
wurms/viruses.  Make em think twice.

I'm less concerned with worms/viruses than I am with the endless number of bellybutton clowns hell bent to take control of my browser and sell me Viagra.

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: nn76240 on August 05, 2004, 03:47:17 PM

I think i'll wait for the new os to come out right now it's codename is longhorn

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 05, 2004, 04:08:28 PM

You are in for a long wait.  Longhorn is a good two years away from being an OS stable enough to be used.

Unless you like 'bleeding edge' technology and then you will have to live through all the headaches that plagues every new Windows OS since Windows 1.0.

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: nn76240 on August 05, 2004, 04:18:01 PM

yea I know but my system with win98se will do me fin untill it comes out to the public

Title: Who wants to go first?
Post by: Gh0stFT on August 05, 2004, 05:26:29 PM

I run sp2 beta since april now, everythink worked fine,
the firewall especially! It was a dream to surf the net
again without any anoying thingy.

R
Gh0stFT