Windows Service Pack 2

VolksFolks Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,869 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 17 Sep 2004, 9:36 pm

#234220

I downloaded this in the week, after installing it had to call microsoft tech, no net, pc going haywire, well tonight i had enough, so i did a system restore to before i installed it, ahhh the way things used to be, my recomendation, dont bother the service pack 2 has a new windows firewall and restricts everything, adsl is like dialup and and the pc was taking 6 minutes to boot up, bloody willie gates was probably looking at my stuff eh

andyhow service pack 2 'forget it'

Andy

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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 17 Sep 2004, 9:40 pm

#234222

The firewall can be switched off. If you get the service pack from the professional and system admin part of the windows site rather than the windowsupdate you can download the whole pack rather than the smarty-pants install as it sees fit version Micro$oft think people want.

Then when you install you get a few options. Boot it up without being connected to the web and switch off the firewall.

VolksFolks Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,869 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 17 Sep 2004, 9:43 pm

#234225

Yeh i switched the wall orf and still was playing up, i automatically downloaded, but was still slowing the pc down heaps.

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KOM123 Smiling Assassin

1,164 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 17 Sep 2004, 9:45 pm

#234227

Don't be discouraged, I've installed it on 14 computers so far and no hassles on any. My only advice to anyone going to do the upgrade is potentially there can be a number of incompatibilty issues so read, read and read some more on the notes they provide and any current magazine articles and forums on the matter.

A good starting point is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx

Whatever you do, don't just go ahead and install it thinking that nothing can go wrong!

Silver_Platinum Learner Dubber

12 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 17 Sep 2004, 9:48 pm

#234230

Wait a little while longer, until all the bugs in the service pack have been removed. Then give it a go.
SP2, has worked fine for me.

VolksFolks Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,869 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 17 Sep 2004, 10:00 pm

#234233

the m/s tech guy seemed to think my antivirus (trend) was not yet compatible with sp2 and was conflicting with it, i may take silvers advice and wait a while before i reinstall it and compleatly remove the antivirus program, interesting topic, and hearing some/most have had no problems eh, thanks guys

Andy

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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 17 Sep 2004, 10:03 pm

#234235

We'll be puting it on a couple of hundred machines next week!

Lams Wolfsburg Wizard

536 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 17 Sep 2004, 11:01 pm

#234253

glad to know you guys aren't having any problems with it

but I took had to uninstall mine... my wireless card couldnt connect to the router anymore so I had to take it off

i posted this problem on vwvortex and the guys told me that they're going nowhere near it until microsof updates the patch or something

hope it goes good for you!

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555bug WRX Bug Boy

1,123 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 18 Sep 2004, 12:23 am

#234283

switch to AVG from Girsoft (anti virus) its free and updates are released daily. I've tried just about everything and this has always proved to be the best 🙂

Andy Andy\'s Adventures

2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 · 18 Sep 2004, 7:04 am

#234310

Volksfolks, at work we recently switched to Trend. Mic. for antivirus. No issues so far with SP2 that I'm aware of. Trend does automatically turn on it's own firewall though which we turn off.

Secoh Fahrvergnugen

926 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 18 Sep 2004, 10:25 am

#234344

SP2 causes crashes with jpeg image files, particuarly any in the My Documents folders. there's 58mb patch out for it now. I'm not touching SP2 until Microsoft has finished beta testing it (oh, you realise that with their error reporting function, we are all now beta-testers?)

If it aint broke,
Make it go faster!!

Oppressa Officially Full-On Dubber

367 posts · joined Oct 2002 · 18 Sep 2004, 10:33 am

#234348

Also had SP2 problems. Network card mainly. SP1 is fine. No need for anything more.

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