Re: WINDOW SERVICE PACK 2 CAUSING PROBLEMS ON XP COMPUTERS

From: Kevin (webman6_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:48:31 -0800

We get the picture. The installation of Service Pack 2 is not and never has
been required. You install it at your own risk. Microsoft has made this
abundantly clear. There are specific steps that you need to take to ensure
a trouble-free installation of SP2. These steps are readily available on
the Windows Update website. That being said, Service Pack 2 should never
have been released to the general public.

Microsoft should have done more to educate the personal computing community
about this major update to the Windows XP operating system. Now that the
Service Pack has been released they should be working on issuing a fix for
the myriad problems that SP2 seems to inflict on hapless users.

There is nothing in SP2, as far as security is concerned, that is not
already being done by third party software, and doing it a hell of a lot
better. Microsoft would have been better off by just releasing critical
updates, one by one. And, in case you were wondering, I have not downloaded
or installed Service Pack 2. I won't, unless, and until Microsoft fixes it.

"BOB7732" <BOB7732@ATT.NET> wrote in message
news:%23YLr0YuwEHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I had to re install windows & my hard drive & am not going to put my auto
> updates back on, it caused problems so bad dad had to call dell & it took
a
> few phone calls & they had me re install windows again [:-(>] & even
restore
> [before we called dell did not get rid of the problem, I still had windows
> security on there] did not work. I even could not get my Norton anti-virus
> working right either.
>
> So SP2 stinks.
>
> Bob
>
> --
>
> God loves you & so do I!
> Have a blessed day/night
>
> Please visit my towns (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SP20906/)
>
> All outgoing mail is scanned by Norton anti-virus
> (http://www.symantec.com/index.htm)
>
>
>

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