Computers can stop working for many reasons other than installing SP2. If your "worklife will fall apart" due to Windows troubles, what will you do when your hard drive fails?
My advice is to get your backups in order so that you can easily recover from a hard drive failure, then install SP2. In the worst case you can restore the drive from backup (but more likely, you'll just uninstall SP2 if there are unsolvable problems). Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eve Golden Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hard/Soft: Wireless connections, question 2 Thanks to all who responded. Here are the details -- sorry about that. Win XP, SP1. I have been afraid to do the SP2 upgrade because I am using an old printer and Word 97. Also some other older software. I've been told that there can be problems with older hardware and software on SP2, and my worklife will fall apart if I get into trouble with Windows right now. Is this wrong? I've been holding out, because I'm going to have to get a new computer at the end of this year, and I figured once the new one was set up I could take the risk of messing with SP2. Wireless Cards: One is the original card that came in my Dell laptop: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLan Mini-PCI card, which can do the b protocol but not the g. However, it receives better than the new card, which is faster but fussier. The new one is a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter, 2.4 GHz, 802.11g. Both of them work fine when they are working. When Explorer goes down neither works. It's a limited part of Explorer, I think, because the rest of the computer works OK for quite a long time after the internet connection goes. Eventually, though, the whole system hangs up. The access point is a Linksys router, WRT-54G, according to Wayne's recommendation :-). We recently updated the driver. The Linksys card is just a couple of months old, and it has the newest driver. -- E -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
