[Keen-Minded]

Fellow Freepers: I would appreciate any suggestions or help that you could give to me. I want to thank you in advance for your help.

[Prime Choice]

I would appreciate any suggestions or help that you could give to me.

Dump Windows. Use Linux or get a Macintosh. Problem solved.

[Yaelle]

Was listening over the weekend to Leo LaPorte on computers, and he got a few calls about the problems people have been having with SP2. (Some are a lot worse than yours.) His advice and apparently the advice of MS is to uninstall it and take your puter back to the day before you did install it.

I installed it as well, and haven't had problems with it... Yet?

[Poohbah]

Try Mozilla. Or Larryzilla. Or Curlyzilla.

[rocksblues]

Uninstall SP2 or use go back to revert your drive to before you installed SP2. Also if you selected a valid restore point before installing SP2 you can use SP1.

[mlbford2]

I just did my SP2 today as well. XPhmed. All good here. No problems at all on download or programs working. Office2000 etc.

[azcap]

The images you are not seeing are probably the advertisements. I have had popup and ad blocking so long that when I viewed Drudge on a friends PC I though for a second I had the wrong page with all that crap at the top.

[maui_hawaii]

I just put on SP2 also. Now on my desktop the icons have lines under them and won't go away. Also the manual buttons for my wireless and sound dont work either.

Any help anyone?

[BeerSwillr]

SP2 by default blocks pop up, look under tools. Either that or maybe the Java Virtual Machine has been disabled or removed. Don't need to uninstall SP2, just reinstall Java or check for popup blocker.

[deadhead]

After installing SP2, I notice on my FR Homepage, there are two of my images that are 'blurry'...strange, don't notice it else where. I have a lot of photos on my computer and they are all fine.

[Havoc]

Dump windows and get a good flavor of Linux. Redhat, SuSe, Mandrake.... Much Bedda.

[GregB]

We need a messageboard for computer problems...I lost my toolbar icons when I installed XP Pro,no IE icon desktop icon or mail icon.

[Rockingham]

Have you also kept your browser updated? If so, and the problem persists, try a reinstall of Internet Explorer. You might also try Mozilla Firefox, which sidesteps some common browser problems and has some useful features.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[Phsstpok]

I "own" 35,000 PCs and we're looking at SP2 very carefully. Having said that, it appears that a large majority of the problems with folks that install SP2 is that they had some serious problem before they installed SP2, they just hadn't discovered it yet.

The most common and serious issue seems to be folks infected with Spyware that chokes on SP2s security settings and causes other things to lock up when they can't do what they're intended to do by their "evil masters."

I'm not recommending the product, per se, but www.pestpatrol.com has good info on what could be affecting your PC. Anti-Virus software doesn't even look for this stuff. We sent in some "malware" stuff today to an unamed major AV vendor to get them to ID it. Their conclusion was "this is not a virus - it is a regular program that installs on your PC and does things without your authorization." Well, duh. That seems to be an issue to me, but it doesn't meet their definition of "virus." You ain't safe, Sherlock.

It is important to make sure your PC is 100% clean before you try to install SP2. If SP2 breaks it you probably weren't clean, which is a good thing to learn.

I recommend reformatting and doing a clean install of Windows XP, then apply all of the patches, up to and including SP2. Otherwise Windows (any version) is a house of cards. Upgrading in place is, frankly, insane. I reformat and reinstall my systems at least once every 6 months. Of course, I rarely keep a system longer than 9 months, so......

[js1138]

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