Re: "Advisor" for XP-2?
From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:48:06 GMT
No, Will. I was asking about the possible existence of a pre-SP2
installation diagnostic utility (maybe an updatable one) that would work
similar to the XP Upgrade Advisor diagnostic utility does. I appreciate but
already have tons of links to documents (including the ones you gave), and
it's impossible for me to keep up on all the potential problems that SP2
might cause were SP2 to be applied even to an infection-free system -- the
*documented* info is too scattered, hard to find, hard to determine if
applicable, and requires too much system inventorying to make it practical
for what a repair shop can charge for labor time. Best thing I've found so
far is this link: http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm and that prints out to
nearly 20 pages of problems to be avoided! It's best copied to a word
processor so that it can be searched against an inventory of user installed
programs. No, a utility to do such a search is definitely over due and
disparately needed in the service industry! Maybe MS will come out with one,
like right away (yesterday would be ok). And yes I know about HDD image
backups; that's fine for desktops, not so practical for laptops.
And while I'm on my soap box. Isn't there a MS authored article indicating
that the user should not install SP2 until the system is known to be clean
of malware? If so, then how can it be assumed by the auto update process
that a system that has no firewall activated and/or does not have updated
antivirus should get SP2 applied? Isn't it just unconscionable that such
circumstances can result in a BSOD that seemingly can not be recovered from,
perhaps causing great financial distress in result, when the system owner
was doing exactly what MS recommends -- automatic updates? Where is that
utility I spoke of, why isn't it available for manual usage, and why isn't
it automatically used before SP2 gets applied automatically? <sigh>
"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OA6%23zFAnEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> Please try the following articles:
>
> "Windows XP Service Pack 2"
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx
>
> "What to Know Before You Download and Install Windows XP Service Pack 2"
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
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>
> "WinGuy" <no_spam@nomail.bot> wrote in message
> news:Pph2d.16204$QJ3.13447@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> >I find the Windows XP Advisor utility
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/advisor.mspx is really
> > nice for preparing to upgrade from something other than XP. Is there a
> > similar automated utility to use before upgrading XP SP-1 to SP-2? I'm
> > aware
> > of the various text based articles that point out potential problems
that
> > might exist before installing SP-2, but those are unweildly to try to
use
> > because inventorying things by hand and then trying to find out with
> > everything I service if anything represents a potential problem is
> > unreasonable and impractical!
> >
> >
>
>
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