Is SP2 a Disaster for XP and Local Networks?
From: W. Watson (wolf_tracks_at_invalid.inv)
Date: 12/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:07:37 GMT
I'm really beginning to regret the decision to use SP2 on my XP Pro machine. This is
not a smooth transition with respect to my local network and firewall capabilities. I
had hoped to pick up some error corrections, and some clean features, as well as some
protection features. Perhaps I'm in a fairly unique position. I was using McAfee
firewall, Norton's Nav, Mozilla browser/mailer, spybot and flying along pretty well.
No viruses, and no break ins. Comfortable and able to do the useful work I bought
these computers for in the first place.
I've had to uninstall McAfee firewall to get a firewall back, MS firewall. I cannot
reach my other two computers on my local network. They don't seem to exist any
longer. It looks like from the helpful "Network XP Network Problem Solver" that I may
need to uninstall yet more third party software, and make some other changes. This is
not fun. I certainly did not need to disrupt my other activities on the computer to
become a system administrator. Perhaps I'll break through this given some more time,
but I do not like the way this is going.
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