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09/09/2004 01:51:31 PM · #1 |
For days, the little system tray icon at the bottom of my screen at home has been informing me: "New updates are ready for download." It's Service Pack 2.
I know there are tons of things in there that are important, but I've heard so many stories about programs not working after installing SP2.
So, what's the consensus? Install or not? Why?
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09/09/2004 01:55:34 PM · #2 |
I am holding off on it to find out what programs are affected and how.
I could not find any info last week on Microsofts web site.
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09/09/2004 01:56:52 PM · #3 |
Look here
I've installed it with no problems |
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09/09/2004 02:20:49 PM · #4 |
I also discussed this back on 8/17/04 in this thread:
Software programs and Windows XP Service Pack 2
I decided to turn off the automatic updates and wait until Microsoft and other software companies catch up.
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09/09/2004 02:27:28 PM · #5 |
I have uninstalled it, the performance was very much affected (AMD +1800); even pictures were jumping in the screen when rolling the bars.
I guess if You have a powerful machine You could go ahead, anyway the security added is available by other software vendors (Norton, Computer Associates, etc..) with no so high penalties (only some $) |
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09/09/2004 03:00:39 PM · #6 |
I've installed XP SP 2 at home on my desktop, on my personal laptop and at work, on a desktop. I routinely use programs that use a lot of processor resources and RAM, and have yet to experience any problems. Moreover, I like that (after installing the patch) many security features are now part of the OS -- since the patch made these much needed features easier to manage (ie., firewall, virus programs, automatic download, pop-up blocker).
Message edited by author 2004-09-09 15:37:54.
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09/09/2004 03:26:33 PM · #7 |
I installed SP2 2 days ago. Took about 15 mins (had the CD) and no problems. Security features 'seem' much better. Firewall runs during boot, which my other one doesn't and this is a really security issue as during booting there are a lot of 'open ports'.
Yup, quite happy with SP2 at the moment. Will let you know as soon as it looks like going tits up.
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09/09/2004 03:57:03 PM · #8 |
I installed SP2 about two weeks ago. I run McAfee Security Suite also and have had no problems. I'm not sure of the speed of things slowing down or not because I just upgraded my PC's motherboard and CPU and didn't have a guage on how fast the new hardware was before I installed SP2.
Richard
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09/09/2004 04:20:16 PM · #9 |
I installed it a couple days because when I ran Spybot I had some stuff that was there because of IE holes, so finding nothing else, I downloaded SP2. *shrugs* No problems yet.
It's insane how many Spyware programs can be added in a week of having a computer! We don't get nearly this many on our homeone and we've had that for 4 years (and the amount of spyware/adware on it was minimal considering how much we surf the web).
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09/09/2004 04:49:29 PM · #10 |
| I've installed it on my work machine and two systems at home... no problem so far, amazingly enough! |
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09/09/2004 04:54:13 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by AmiYuy:
I installed it a couple days because when I ran Spybot I had some stuff that was there because of IE holes, so finding nothing else, I downloaded SP2. *shrugs* No problems yet.
It's insane how many Spyware programs can be added in a week of having a computer! We don't get nearly this many on our homeone and we've had that for 4 years (and the amount of spyware/adware on it was minimal considering how much we surf the web). |
I've made a few pages on my site that help with spyware after loads of folk asked me for help, click the link below:
Click |
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09/09/2004 06:19:45 PM · #12 |
I had a seriously bad SP@ install. To the point where it's taken me 3 days to get my system back to something approaching useable.
In my case, I had an initial memorey problem that SP2 exacerbated.
Clara
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09/09/2004 06:54:33 PM · #13 |
No problems here on the install!I had one old program that was causing a conflict(Vidx-for viewing compressed video). Deleted the program and everything is great!
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