I spent Christmas 1995 in Microsoft.
Posted on 08/27/2004 2:50:13 AM PDT by goldstategop
Microsoft released its official Windows XP Service Pack 2 this morning via its Windows Update Service. Its a 75 MB pack that that will take 3 hours to download on standard-dialup. All comments welcome. Its here!
Thanks. I don't use any of the frills. I learned way back with Real Player never to allow any media player past the firewall. A shame when I cannot trust the major players.
Firefox's tabbed browsing (ctrl+T) is a nice feature IMHO
Thanks
WHAT I want to know is,
WHEN DO THE PATCHES for SR2 start?
Beware.....Microsoft has a list of programs that will not run with this.
I have only have a couple games, but 2 are on the list of what will stop working if I download it.
Thus, I will wait for patches before downloading without thinking...
Haven't noticed a great deal of diff between Beta version and final version.
I haven't suffered MORE glitches--about the same amount. Still get the blue screen of death because of some driver. Haven't found out which driver. All drivers supposedly have latest updates.
IE latest version still hangs when loading a variety of sites.
Microsoft is still arrogant, full of money and horse biscuits and very cheeky, greedy and insensitive to customer needs--if it even remembers it has customers after greedily grabbing their money.
There's no excuse with their money and mental horse power for so much junk STILL going on with their software.
Your guess is as good as mine. Until Windows Longhorn comes out. Who knows long THAT will be.
Perhaps a new spell checker? ;~)
Not true. Mine installed just fine and without any changes.
I immediately noticed the ceasing of pop-ups and wonder how it will affect Drudge. I was getting 2 pop up ads when I visited his site - it's gotta impact his ad revenue if visitors no longer see the pop-ups.
I spent Christmas 1995 in Microsoft.
I'm holding off too. We do 99% of our internet access from the Linux side of our system anyway.
Back up and running. No problems so far...
Give it a couple of hours. LOL!
Here come the platform wars (typed on my OSX wireless PowerBook)....
BTTT!!!!!!!
Anyway, I immediately switched off the firewall and antivirus warnings - I have better stuff for that - but kept the automatic updates. I already have good pop-up blockers, so didn't notice any change there, I guess a little redundancy never hurt. It didn't affect my home network or Internet connection, but I am getting some kind of error message when I shut down that particular box, will have to look at that when I have a chance. Also, it is giving me a warning that my DVD software is incompatible and then directs me to the (wrong) page for my video card's driver updates, another problem to fix.
Otherwise, it seems to browse faster, which is usually the case at first when you do a major upgrade, though I may just be imagining that. My OS was acting a little funky before the install - I had to reinstall the original OS from the cd at one point after having installed SP1 etc. online and there were some incompatibilities in the system files that were causing me problems, thanks Bill - and SP2 appears to have resolved them, so my major objective was accomplished.
Overall - I wouldn't install it right now unless you need to, like I did, to solve some instability in your set-up or add the pop-up blocker or whatever specific reason you have. I am not installing it yet on my other boxes, it still looks a little shaky and I don't have the time right now for major problem-solving. If the XP upgrade from Windows 98 back in 2001 was a 10 on the aggravation scale due to hardware driver incompatibilities and such (though the upgrade was worth it), this is about a 4. Give it a little time, let MSFT patch it up, then go for it.
Just completed the download and installation of SP2 and rebooted. No issues encountered thus far. Hurrah!!! (My computer obviously was NOT hosed, since I am back posting on FR). hehehehe
Gotta go make widgets later this afternoon ...I'll start the download and go to work. Dialup Rules !!..............not.
You must be living right. I downloaded and had it installed in about 30 minutes. One small glitch on the reboot, but after that it has worked fine.
Time will tell.
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