Re: SP2. My experiences so far!
From: James Silverton (not.jim.silverton_at_erols.com)
Date: 10/16/04
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:15:18 -0400
"Kevin" <kevincf@excite.com> wrote in message
news:e$kxtEzsEHA.2864@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> The download for Service Pack 2 will be somewhere around 70 MB to
> 200 MB,
> depending on what updates have already been installed on your
> system. It
> most certainly will not be 4 GB! It would take me, with my DSL
> connection,
> a staggering 2666.7 minutes, or 44.4 hours to download a 4 GB file.
> I can't
> even begin to guess how long that would take on a dialup connection!
> If you
> have a file of this size written to your hard drive it sure wasn't
> the
> Service Pack 2 file.
>
> "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton@erols.com> wrote in message
> news:O8uRZYlsEHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Well, I finally got SP2 downloaded, no mean feat with a phone
>> connection, and it *did* install. The first shut-down was
>> agonizingly
>> slow but, surprisingly enough, things have speeded up after a few
>> shut-downs and shutting down is now faster than before the up-date.
>>
>> However the "automatic update" function still has more bugs than is
>> reasonable. The computer offers to install updates before they have
>> finished downloading and goes into a repeated endless sequence of
>>
>> Windows updates are being installed. {THE FULL STOP JIGGLES ALONG A
>> BIT}
>>
>> Do not turn off or unplug computer. It will turn off
>> automatically.
>> {IT NEVER DOES}
>>
>> A reset is necessary to get it out of the idiotic sequence.
>>
>> In a later session, I carefully ascertained that the down-load was
>> complete: about 4 Gigs! It then became apparent that Microsoft has
>> learned nothing since, unasked, it writes temporary files to my USB
>> hard disk (my back-up device). The only way to get the update to
>> work
>> is to demount the USB disk. This is just what happened before SP2
>> but
>> I thought they might have noticed.
You are probably correct! I don't know how big the update, *after
installing SP2*, actually was since I spent the time doing other
things and it downloaded in steps on several separate occasions. The
size was that of the temporary files written onto my USB disc.
-- James V. Silverton Potomac, Maryland, USA
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