Re: W2K SP4 Hosed our PC - Need Help !!!

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:45:41 -0500

Well what can I say? Your mind is made up it's the Service Pack and not your system. Of course if what you say is true about the Service Pack then 100% of all Windows 2000 SP4 dial-up users aren't able to d/l files off the Internet either. Of course if you go to the WindowsUpdate newsgroup you will see that is not the case.

I don't know how to explain your issue. You have and so we'll leave it at that. 

-- 
George Hester
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3f7701c3fe90$6f20c470$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I understand what you are saying, but the point is the 
> system works just fine with SP3 but with SP4 all works 
> fine **EXCEPT** it will NOT allow ANY Web downloads. That 
> suggest to me it's not the system but a friggin security 
> setting in SP4/IE6 that needs to be switched on/off. Even 
> though I've tested several IE6 security options, run thru 
> the entire list of MS suggested solutions for similar 
> issues, I haven't found the magic bullet...
> 
> And as soon as I switch back to SP3 I can download files 
> without any problems at all, which again confirms my 
> belief it's an SP4 issue. So by my reasoning this isn't a 
> hardware or system issue, it's a friggin SP4/IE6 config. 
> issue. If you check the MS Knowledge-less-base... you'll 
> see they had the same problem with Win98. SOS DD.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Well it doesn't happen here so since we don't have the 
> same system but the SP4 is the same in both our cases, the 
> only logical explanation is that it's your system.  I am 
> not trying to say you have a bum system.  I 'm just trying 
> to suggest it may not be the SP4 but how your system is 
> dealing with it.
> >
> >-- 
> >George Hester
> >__________________________________
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:3de001c3fe7b$8dde1440$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Nope, it absolutely is the SP4 "critcal update". I 
> >> uninstall SP4 and go back to SP3 and IE 6 runs fine, 
> >> thought the RAS is corrupted from the original SP4 
> >> download so I can't get a dial-up. I've installed and 
> >> uninstalled SP4 (3) times and confirmed it is 
> definitely 
> >> SP4 that prevents downloading files from the web.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the thought. I'm thinking that some security 
> >> setting w/SP4 is by default not allowing the downloads 
> >> now ???
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >WINDOZE let me just say.  I have SP4 in Windows 2000 
> >> Professional Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4.
> >> >
> >> >There are no issues there.
> >> >
> >> >So it seems to me something else is your culprit then 
> >> just SP4.   What do you think?
> >> >
> >> >-- 
> >> >George Hester
> >> >__________________________________
> >> >"WINDOZE - When Pigs Fly !" 
> >> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> >> news:3e2201c3fe6f$92229230$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> >> Wait till I get my hands on Dollar Bill... he's 
> gonna 
> >> wish 
> >> >> he never went into the consumer fraud Biz!
> >> >> 
> >> >> W2K SP4 hosed our PC Big time !!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> After having spent two weeks installing/uninstalling 
> >> W2K 
> >> >> SP4 and running recovery routines, and re-installing 
> >> SP3, 
> >> >> I can document that SP4 is a piece of sh*t that 
> FUBARS 
> >> >> your PC beyond repair !!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> At this moment I need to know if there is some 
> fugging 
> >> IE 
> >> >> 6 setting that prevents web downloads like 
> >> Norton/Symantec 
> >> >> security updates, PDF files, etc. from being 
> >> downloaded??? 
> >> >> After installing SP4 I can no longer download from 
> the 
> >> web 
> >> >> yet I can open websites without normal IE problems. 
> If 
> >> I 
> >> >> uninstall SP4 and go to SP3 I **CAN** download from 
> the 
> >> >> Web without problems but SP4 corrupted the RAS so I 
> >> can't 
> >> >> get a dial-up now and I've found no way to repair 
> the 
> >> >> corrupted mess SP4 has created...
> >> >> 
> >> >> Without exaggeration, this SP4 fug-up has cost me 
> >> $20,000 
> >> >> in the past two weeks and I damned well plan on 
> holding 
> >> MS 
> >> >> accountable for this and all other losses associated 
> >> with 
> >> >> THERI FUGGING CRAP SOFTWARE !!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> Any help on this abortion aka W2K appreciated !!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> You can bet you azz that I will be switching to 
> Linux 
> >> very 
> >> >> shortly and MS can stick their crap where the Sun 
> don't 
> >> >> shine !!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> NEVER agin will we be tortured like this as a result 
> of 
> >> a 
> >> >> MS "Critical security update" and then not even be 
> able 
> >> to 
> >> >> contact those idiots via e-mail for support!!!
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >.
> >> >
> >.
> >

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