Re: Story of a Man and SP2

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From: Peter (0spam0)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:51:29 -0400

Me neither! 

-- 
Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
Pentium4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1gb DDR.
"Faruk Rangooni" <farukr@farsoftindia.com> wrote in message 
news:%23ZBXWkFiEHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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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