Re: wuts so good about sp2??
From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:48:27 GMT
Windows Xp with SP2 is a completely new OS.
Windows 2000 was based on NT (Not DOS or 9x)
Applications designed and coded for ancient OS's are only compatible up to a
point where the external Application code can not function according to the
new rules of the OS.
Even as of yesterday, a post about he AGP driver, a VIA chipset board. The
fact of the matter is that MS had to tighten down the AGP driver because
several Video card makers were going off on their own exploiting subtle
parts of the standards.
The new AGP driver 3.5 standard is now in affect.
Of course the reply to the OP was hey do this and that and then,, the old
way and it will not work any more.
So that's one example a driver standard change and they have changed several
times since 98, ME, and even 2000.
Couple that with the fact that all DOS Windows, 9.x, and ME had no security
in the OS and the file system only had basic permissions which could be
overridden by any user.
The facts are that many complaining are trying to use XP SP2 as if it were
still win 98 or me.
It is not and the majority of even new programs have not even yet been
written correctly for XP SP2 standards.
This was not a whack for MS to make your life miserable, but rather a long
over due fix that was making the lives of millions miserable due to errors,
vulnerabilities, and lake of Internet security from the exponential growth
in methods to disrupt and crash thousands of computers coming from all over
the world.
Everything has changed about computers for the SOHO user, corporations and
government have been running with the newer model for years. Most of the
SOHO users will not notice a difference because they have newer computers
with newer applications and use the basic methods to compute (word
processor, e-mail, browser, chat, file download)
The truth is that older hardware and older applications just are not going
to keep up much longer even though there are several mechanisums in the
Windows OS to accommodate the older standards, and the OS can run unsecured
and unprotected, it is a matter of time before the system will get hosed up
and need to be re-installed. (Not to mention the spread of problems to
others.)
But the Windows XP with SP2, a two-way firewall, and AV, and a Adware
blocker, is once again stable, reliable, and safe from the Internet, and
secure from hackers and overrides.(Nothing is secure from bad hardware.)
If that's too good for someone then by all means do your own thing but in
the process it would benefit millions to state the truth of why you are
doing it, such as ignorance, jealousy, ego, self rightous indignation,
hatered for MS, etc) rather than saying the SP2 for XP sucks, broke my old
hardware, crashed my 5 year program, stops the internet, can't write to my 4
year old disk(that's way to small) that hasn't had more than 2 GB on it
ever, etc.
The truth is the users just don't know what they are doing and some of them
should have never arbitrary updated. However, there comes a point in a
culture when even the best intentions will still be ignored by the masses
(i.e. the America elections vs. the rest of the world's people) and thus
someone just has to say WHEN.
WHEN was August 25th, 2004 and it was called Windows Automated Update.
The past is on the shelf, are you staying there with it or moving on down
the road?
Choice is good, but there are also bad choices from which we learn life's
lessons. And there is a time to take out the garbage and buy new clothes.
SJ
"keisuke" <keisuke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C9BBB12E-4978-44CE-A33B-0DCC3251ABCA@microsoft.com...
>i have a router, a good virus program, and i don't even use the windows
> firewall, what is so good about sp2?? there seems to be alot of problems
> with
> compatibility with other programs, and i have a startup problem or a
> freeze
> every so often. most of my friends don't have sp2, and they don't seem to
> have any issues... what are the consequences of uninstalling it??
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