Re: XP repair install on new MB (retry post)

From: I like toys and cake (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:54:48 +0100

"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:023d01c4a012$8216bc00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Sounds like you're not too comfortable with the prospect
> either. In you first paragraph, if you meant that you
> haven't yet installed SP2, then WHAT THE *&$@ ARE YOU
> WAITING FOR? You gotta get that installed, man! I got
> rid of my two third-party pop-up blockers and just use
> IE's new one: it works great. (Don't believe I've ever
> said that about an MS product before. hmmmm...)
>

No, I have installed it on 3 machines, I just downloaded the full
266MB installer to do all 3 machines in one go instead of each machine
downloading the 110MB worth of updates it personally required. The
disk I have came with my PC magazine 3 days after so I just put it in
a drawer without looking at it, as I already had SP2 installed.

I must admit though I have seen no benefit to SP2 so far.

I have a hardware firewall built into my router so I switched off the
one in SP2 to stop it conflicting with several of my programs.
It won't monitor my antivirus' status (I use kaspersky).
I don't have automatic updates on ever because I have 3 machines and
don't want to download everything 3 times.
The built in bluetooth broke my perfectly working bluetooth drivers
and tools causing me hours of tweaking and shouting to get it all to
work again.
I use Mozilla Firefox so pop-ups were not a problem anyway.

Maybe it does good things that I don't see though.

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