Re: What is SP2 doing - apart from trashing everybody's PC??
From: Ingit (ingoloid_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:40:44 +0200
Here's my take on the matter, as I', one individual who will post the good
or positive on the upgrade. I have installed SP2 on 6 home computers since
it was released to the public and have yet experienced any problems. Call
me "Lucky", or maybe what most MVP's are telling the public is true.
1. Do your homework before installing, i.e.: drivers, software updates
2. BACKUP all important data
3. Keep your OS as clean as possible. i.e.: antivirus, spyware removal,
defrag
4. Use newsgroups, search for subjects that may pertain to your situation
I have too much hardware crap to list, so I'm going to spew on about that.
All I know is that I practice "safe" computing. I'm behind a hardware
firewall and have zonealarm on all my boxes. I'm not at all scared to dive
into the registry if needed. Followed all the Release Candidate posting by
people who knew what they were doing by installing SP2. Searched the
internet for more articles than I care to remember about the pitfalls of
SP2.
With all this in mind, I took the plunge and downloaded the entire SP,
burned to a disk and also stored on my server. 1 Computer was updated by
using the disk. 4 computers were updated with the file stored locally on
the HD. The last box, and probably the most important was my wife's work
system, which I updated using the auto-update feature. Any errors to that
one and my life becomes a living hell!!! I even let my wife perform this
one.
Sytems networked throughout the house:
Gateway laptop 1.8mhz Audio/Video connected to stereo
Sager laptop 2.4mhz my main box as desktop replacement
Gateway Desktop 1.8mhz wife main work
Intel Dual Xeon 600mhz file server
Gateway laptop 1.8mhz daughters school computer
AMD K6-500 dual boot w/ Linux
So Far, I have had only one issue with SP2, and that was because of some
screwey codecs after installng WMP10. Un-installed WMP, restored to an
eralier date and was fine afterwards.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that if more people would take the time
to do some research on this subject matter instead of just installing
because some friend said to, then maybe their computing experience would be
a bit better. SP2 really doesn't look like much of an upgrade from the
average person's view, but it is much more that that. most of the changes
were made at the OS Core level. Functioality hasn't really changed at all.
I'm by no means any authority on this matter, nor are my opinions meant to
be. I'm just an average user. I don't have an A+, MSCE, MVP, anything else
MS might think I need. I'm just someone who enjoys computers, likes to
tinker and experiment, but also understand the reality of the Internet world
and that people make it go 'round. Whenever there's a human element
involved...............
Thanks for Listening
"Hugh" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:338f01c49e88$f8a2dba0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Do I detect a thread here, lotsa people seem to be
> updating to XP SP2 and then start losing things like
> soundcards, lan ports, printers, scanners, drives,
> removable drives
>
> Is it me - am I paranoid or has MS screwed it up
> completely???
>
> Hugh
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