Re: Service Pack 2?

Just out of curiosity, how is being on dialup less vulnerable? The bits coming over the wire are the same.

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uziXooFcIHA.5900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm not worried about these so-called vulnerabilities (and I'm on dialup, so it's much less of a threat), but what I really don't like is the increasing lack of control over some things brought about by all these so-called "updates"!

One classic example that I miss is the automatic message compacting in OE (and yes, I know what the rationale for removing that was).

I also don't like these occasional pop up messages, like about how it's now time to clean my desktop, or that "your virus scan is turned off", or that "autoupdate is turned off and I'm gonna leave a yellow tray icon here to permanently remind you of that fact", or what have you. (in this regard I miss Win98SE). Thanks, but no thanks.


Curt Christianson wrote:
Hi Bill,

Even if you *were* able to revert back to "XP Gold", your computer would be
chock-full of vulnerabilities.

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HTH,

Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are there any apps out there that require Service Pack 2? I had thought
I had heard there might be, but I'm not sure. However, that being
said...

Some days there are times when I wish I could uninstall SP2 as (I believe)
it is problematic for some program installations. But alas, I
apparently can't uninstall it, as I just got this new Dell system as a
relatively new release (and I believe it is also integrated into the
system CD, too).

BTW - Is there any way to go back to plain jane WinXP (i.e. without SP2)
in such a case, and without completely messing up the system, and
requiring a clean install (wiping out the existing stuff)? I'm guessing
that is NOT an option, if your system recently came preinstalled with SP2
(and uises one of the newer CDs, in which it is apparently now integrated
into WinXP)



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