Re: Service Pack 2?

Because I can shut it down as soon as some of the crap comes in - as it
takes a "fair amount of time" to download anything (assuming I catch it,
that is).

And that HAS (on rare occasions) happened to me (you know, where a bunch of
windows start popping up uncontrollably, and your desktop starts "acquiring"
some mysterious icons, etc, and then I *immediately* did a C-A-D and that
stopped it dead in its tracks. (And then I worked on cleaning up the
system). (all of this cause I went to a bad site).

This was back on my Win98SE computer, back in the good old days when I was
almost completely in control of the system, and could easily restore the
registry, and ONLY the registry, if I needed to. With WinXP, trying to do
this seems kinda convoluted, but fortunately we have System Restore (which I
have to admit is pretty slick - but not foolproof. :-)


Colin Barnhorst wrote:
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
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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.

--
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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