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Impaler · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:46 am

Just curious, any problems after installing it? I finally finished downloading it (80 megs on dial-up.. ouch), but now I'm hesitant to launch the installation. Will I have to download another 300 megs in patches? Will my printer up and turn polygamist? I know this is classic upgrade anxiety that comes with the new and unfamiliar, but XP worked fine before. Really, I just want to know if it's worth the hassle (if any).
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Gort · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:50 pm

I've been using it for just about a week before it was publicly released (came with our MSDN kit at work). I like it. It really locks the OS down by killing any attempt to run ActiveX controllers (the main culprits for spy and adware) and popups. Security was definitely an issue with Microsoft, so these measures don't surprise me. The Firewall will be enabled by default after the install, but I turned it off due to having a router with closed ports. There's also supposed to be enhanced mail filtering (spam killing) for Outlook Express, but I haven't looked into it. If you have any anti-virus software, you might want to check for any problems against it - I've heard of but not seen any.

The word is that there are some that like it and some that don't. I like it and am glad I did it. I don't have any complaints. Everyone I know to date that's installed doesn't have any complaints either.
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Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:51 am

One problem that I have heard of is a driver issue with 3dsmax6. If you use it, I'll give you a link for a work around.

B0b · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:07 am

there are loads of issues with SP2 on XP, loads of Apps don't play well together anymore etc..

the reason i've not put it on my laptop and only on my games machine (and then i turned off all the security features, and the stupid pop-up u get everytime the machine boots)

eyewoo · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:54 am

My wife downloaded it to her laptop and the laptop slowed down... I mean really, really slowed down. I suspected there was a firewall conflict, but after turning the XP firewall off (which is infuriatingly on by default), the laptop did not speed up. She finally reverted to the prior XP setup and all was well again... without the new stuff... and with a number of hours lost to the experience.
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jfrancis · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:41 am

so far so good here

makototaramoto · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:25 am

also u can order the cd for free...i got mine in one week when they say at least 2. No problems here though they don't allow custom boot/login screens so i had to take them out Rolling Eyes

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Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:44 pm

my wacom tablet stopped working with sp2, i installed new drivers over and o ver and over again, but i had to go back to sp1 to be able to work......... i am not installing sp2 until someone tells me how i should fix this problem hehehe

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jfrancis · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:10 pm

That's odd. My wacom used to complain on logout with SP1. Now it doesn't.

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:14 am

damn! what wacom do you have? has anyone else with the Wacom intuos2 A4 had any trouble with SP2? maybe it doesnt matter wich tablet... aw shoot Confused

jfrancis · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:21 am

I have an intuous 2 I got on ebay. I'm pretty sure I have an up to date driver.

jfrancis · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:12 am

I don't know if this is exactly related, but I had set my Windows XP SP2 to auto update. Last night, on shutoff, it told me it would update 3 items, then shut itself off.

When I woke up, it was frozen updating the first item.

I rebooted and tried to manually update - it aborted - updtae unsucessful.

Now every time I turn my computer off, it hangs in auto update.

B0b · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:52 am

B0b · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:53 am

there is only 1 Workstation OS atm, Windows 2K RULES!! Wink

goldenavatar0 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:51 am

I was apprehensive about putting it on my system because I heard a few bad things about it, but so far no problems on my end whatsoever. Finally, no more pop ups when I use IE. *sniff* Oh joy, oh rapture. Crying or Very sad

I've waited for this for so long.
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cheney · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:47 am

sweetums · member Member # Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 236

I won't install it because of the problems it causes with Adobe products.
I have Norton for a firewall, and AdSubtract and Spy subtract for pop-ups and spyware. I don't need SP2 and the headaches it causes.
My husband installed it on his systems, and it caused such slowdowns, he uninstalled it (he's my guinea pig for system changes. If it doesn't screw up PCs, then I'll install it on mine...I let him upgrade my old e-machine 500, and it's yet to run smooth enough to be returned to me. He won't say what's screwed up, but he's reformatted the main HD already (all my .jpgs and apps are on a separate HD in that machine, thank god! I can physically move that to another PC to pull the data if need be.).

IMO, SP2 isn't worth it. I depend too much on Photoshop, Illy, Painter and GoLive to trouble with it.
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matter · member Member # Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 82 Location: ny

sweetums said