Re: SP2 makes XP-Home/SP1 CD useless - other PC problems.


"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%236Xq$xYqFHA.1096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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As long as you hold dear your preconceptions that Win 98 outperforms XP, then you will always have problems..

$$ I didn't say 98 *OUTPERFORMS* XP. I said I had almost no problems with 98.

If you upgraded from Win 98 to XP the same machine that you have happily been using for Win 98, unless you upgraded most of it, then many of your problems will be hardware based.. any other problems encountered will be down to you being unable to let go of old Win 98 conventions..

$$ This HP machine was bought brand new from CompUSA 2 years ago this month with WXP-Home/SPA already on it.

Bear in mind that thousands of people across the world power up XP SP2 machines daily, and have no problems with them..

$ Fine - then please tell me how they download updates with the security bar preventing it at any setting in tools/options/security/advanced settings? It ignores all settings and there is no window asking if it's ok to download the Active-X needed. HOW DO I GET DOWNLOADS???

the problems outlined in
these newsgroups are a mere drop in the ocean, and do not point to XP or SP2 being bad and defective products.. if they were, everybody would have continual problems, and this is just not true..

$ Agreed - now how do I disable the security bar long enough to get the updates I want? Reading and following the information didn't work.

Nobody here will force you to stay with XP.. if you feel that Win 98 will give you a better deal, then go ahead and re-install it.. 

$$ See above.

this action will
leave some of us shaking our heads a little, but we are advisors, not Net Police..

$$ Please tell me how to disable SP2 security bar long enough to get updates. How is this done?

FS~ 

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