Re: XP SP2 --- How to prevent users from installing it?

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Ron AG (ronag_at_ms.net)
Date: 08/10/04


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:35:06 -0500

Do you really think SP2 will conflict with any programs? If they are working
fine with SP1 now, I bet you won't experience any problems in SP2 at all.

"Fred Yarbrough" <fyarbrou@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e0FWxQnfEHA.368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
> We are concerned that some of our corporate users will download XP SP2
when
> it comes out and screw up their machines. Who knows what applications
will
> be broken when it is installed. I am wondering if there is some way to
> prevent our users from downloading SP2 before we can test it? I guess
that
> we could send out an "All Hands Email Bulletin" warning users to wait
before
> installing it so that our IT department can thoroughly test it. Is anyone
> else out there thinking along these paranoid lines too?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>



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