Re: Story of a Man and SP2

From: Faruk Rangooni (farukr_at_farsoftindia.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:32:43 +0530

No many people are lucky i still do not understand why so many people has
the problem
Thanks
Faruk

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a8f301c48854$dacb6650$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> It was two days ago when I clicked "Download" on Windows
> Update and to my surprise the stupid little globe
> dissapeared and didn't come back. After deciding not to
> bother with this problem I just continued playing my
> games and surfing the net.
>
> Then last night the little globe came back and I was told
> that "Updates are ready to install." Wow that was a long
> download! I went ahead and installed, which took about 30
> minutes (actually first I created a Restore Point
> something everyone should do before installing). Once the
> install finished I restarted the computer and I noticed
> the loadup screens looked different.
>
> This is when I thought to myself "boy what have I got
> myself into?" Luckily I didn't have any problems. A
> screen came up telling me about setting up my Automatic
> Updates (I chose the recommended option) and then I was
> introduced to this Security Center. I looked at it and
> then closed it and went back to playing my games.
> Actually first a pop-up came up about blocking "JOINTOPS"
> with the Firewall and naturally I clicked "unblock."
> Besides having to do this same thing for some of my other
> games I haven't ran into any problems. My Internet worked
> fine (I'm using Verison DSL with MSN Premuium), my
> messenger went through some repair process when I first
> used it and then was working like normal. All in all I
> haven't had any problems....I guess I'm lucky.
>
> The End

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