Re: Story of a Man and SP2

From: Edward W. Thompson (thomeduk1_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:11:10 +0100

<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

No you are not lucky, that is the 'normal' progression. Those with the
problems are the 'odd ball' cases and need to dealt with individually.
There appears to be no inherent problem with the SP2 upgrade (possible
'Prescott' processor problem excluded).

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