Re: WINDOW SERVICE PACK 2 CAUSING PROBLEMS ON XP COMPUTERS

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From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:02:52 -0700

SP-2 works very well on most computers.
The SP-2 of today is the same as SP-2 in a year because there is
nothing serious to fix.

Consider the number of Windows XP computers in the world.
No two of those computers are identical.
There is no way Microsoft or anyone else can test anything on all of
them.
It is up to the users to determine if the hardware and software is
compatible with SP-2.
Perhaps Microsoft should have done more in information.
However SP-2 is here.
SP-2 is probably the most tested piece of software ever.
Most issues are prevented by preparation.

Most users need SP-2 but each needs to make their own informed
decision about installing anything. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Kevin" <webman6@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:O33ITpuwEHA.1984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> 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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