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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Feb 8th, 2005

Lose your calculator or sound recorder after getting SP2? Check this thread:

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Feb 9th, 2005

SP2 is a complete waste of time. Why does everyone hang off MS for their patches, only to be forced to install more patches to patch what SHOULD have been done in SP2. Get yourself zonealarm security suite(which includes a virus scanner) and SP2 is redundant.

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Originally Posted by aussielad

SP2 is a complete waste of time. Why does everyone hang off MS for their patches, only to be forced to install more patches to patch what SHOULD have been done in SP2. Get yourself zonealarm security suite(which includes a virus scanner) and SP2 is redundant.

SP2 includes numerous improvements over SP1, the security features added to Internet Explorer are in no way redundant. They eliminate the risk of auto installing spyware for one. The XP Firewall is also very much improved in SP2 but Zonealarm is still a good recommendation.

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Feb 9th, 2005

I did a complete re-install for a friend and added SP2 - a problem that I've now found very common occured, because thier PC had a LEGACY MOTHERBOARD they now had no sound! I've searched the net profusely and cannot find a patch to rectify the problem! The end result? ... I had to buy a cheap soundcard and install it. Not a tricky job, but a problem if your PC is under warranty as you can't open the case.

Well done LEGACY / MICROSOFT! :eek:

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Originally Posted by Mastertech

SP2 includes numerous improvements over SP1, the security features added to Internet Explorer are in no way redundant. They eliminate the risk of auto installing spyware for one. The XP Firewall is also very much improved in SP2 but Zonealarm is still a good recommendation.

Mastertech is right...SP 2 has many improvements, thats why this and other board as full of threads by people needing help when they install SP2, thread after thread people's computer freezes, crashes, programs dont work. I still think SP2 is rubbish, Ive never had a single issue since sp1, my zone alarm security suite keep me 100% safe online. my advice is DO NOT install SP2, no matter what hype MS trawls out. if you dont beleive me, ask others who havent installed SP2, see if they have had problems

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Feb 11th, 2005

How about warning those who have happily been using BASIC for decades that this "Fix" is TERMINAL DEATH for all the thousands of basic progs they may have written!
And once installed it cannot be uninstalled!

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Originally Posted by mrwhy

How about warning those who have happily been using BASIC for decades that this "Fix" is TERMINAL DEATH for all the thousands of basic progs they may have written!
And once installed it cannot be uninstalled!

A warning, of sorts, is here, in post #39.

Instructions for uninstalling it are in here as well, see post #13.

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Originally Posted by dlh6213

A warning, of sorts, is here, in post #39.

Instructions for uninstalling it are in here as well, see post #13.

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Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Mar 23rd, 2005

For the network administrators out there:-

If you use XP clients and a windows 2000/2003 server, after applying SP2 to clients you will find that any Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policies will fail if you also use Folder Redirection policies. Thanks for that Microsoft......