So far the release candidates have been disastrous too, lets hope Longhorn improves the M$ track record when it is released in 2005.
As well the firewall control center is conflicting with third party offerings so the word being given is that if you use one third party firewall and you install SP2 then you may have to face difficulties.
SP2 is not behaving well with some testers too, CRN conducted a test in it's labs and found blue screen results on their systems, nothing like a BSOD on XP :). See more here http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;jsessionid=VVPFIRZXAVGHYQSNDBESKHA?articleId=23905071 or here http://tinyurl.com/45ofw
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 12:15 PM 8/8/2004, Support-OrpheusComputing.com spoke this:
There IS a "swelling of news" about it! :-) Search Google for XP SP2 issues OR problems and there's almost 200,000 hits. People are also noticing many of their software/programs no longer work.
When they had auto update enabled, M$ dumps every conceivable update on your PC, of which the majority you don't even need, and also of which the majority will screw up your PC. -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com )
----- Original Message ----- From: "ETM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I personally like XP a LOT and think it has far fewer problems than lower operating systems. I admit I don't use automatic updating on ANYthing, including AV or trojan protection programming. I manually check each and every day when I want to do it. I do not like "multi-tasking" by an auto-updater going on when I am doing something else.
How do you mean auto-updating wiped out a hard drive? There would be a swelling of news in all the trade ezines if that were occurring.
Most here would/should be doing regular backups, I do one every six hours, and while it would be a pain in the butt, if I had to restore, I'd restore.
Elaine
Hello pcworks
On Sunday, August 8, 2004, you wrote
> All I've heard about SP2 is NOT to install it because it's loaded with > problems. Like we need more with XP. They are really into trying to get > users to turn on auto-updates, so they can then load all the garbage on your > PC without your knowledge or consent. I know of more than one person that > had auto updates on recently, and it wiped out their HD's to where they had > to reformat. All I can say, is that anyone that wants to try it better have > Ghost, GoBack or similar installed and ready to go! Best thing is to run > Ghost and get an image you can restore back via floppy boot restore if need > be. > -Clint
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