XP SP2 out today!

Heat · Mar 19, 2004

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2predl.mspx

I'm not touching this one for a few weeks.

glock19owner · Mar 19, 2004

I am not touching it at all after reading about there "security updates"...it even blocks out certain M$ programs it pegs as unsecure programs...

{PMS}fishy · Mar 19, 2004

Well its only a preview, and might as well be considered RC2.

Ill wait for the offical.

Heat · Mar 19, 2004

Yeah, but it's still a public release now, so it'll interesting to see what will happen over the next few weeks as more people sample it.

BTW, {PMS}fishy. Who is that in your avastar? I think I have that picture as one of my old wallpapers.

glock19owner · Mar 19, 2004

There was a small write up on SP2 at Hardocp, and it stated that SP2 will be more secure...so secure it will decide on what is a secure program and what isnt...and if it pegs it as a unsecure program...SP2 will not let it run...and this includes a lot of M$ programs itself...so no matter to me...if they dont change that issue I will never run or install it...and if M$ forces XP users to use it...then Linux here I come...

{PMS}fishy · Mar 19, 2004

Heat said:
Yeah, but it's still a public release now, so it'll interesting to see what will happen over the next few weeks as more people sample it.

BTW, {PMS}fishy. Who is that in your avastar? I think I have that picture as one of my old wallpapers.

Too many people ask me that, Im going to make you work for it.

www.google.com

FunkyTechnician · Mar 20, 2004

Heat said:
Yeah, but it's still a public release now, so it'll interesting to see what will happen over the next few weeks as more people sample it.

BTW, {PMS}fishy. Who is that in your avastar? I think I have that picture as one of my old wallpapers.

Looks like Shannon Elizabeth to me.

Oni · Mar 20, 2004

FunkyTechnician said:
Looks like Shannon Elizabeth to me.

Give that man a Kewpie doll

As for the service pack, I'd wait and let other people be the guiney pigs first.

wildfrogman · Mar 20, 2004

SP2 will let MS take over your computer!!!! oh, wait...nevermind. Sp1 eula agreement already lets MS be admin and push software/delete/update as it sees fit. Something to do with windows media player being the MS backdoor to your system. I havnt heard of MS pushing/deleting software...yet but just imagine MS seeing everything you have on your harddrive

SP2 hopefully doesnt say "hey, its not MS certified=wont run". Just imagine MS doing that...impossible? hardly. "Its all for security's sake"

glock19owner · Mar 20, 2004

exactlley...and M$ thinks they are more secure then the end users...which is why M$ had security updates all the time...

As for the media player and the few other programs that "watch" your system...these things can be taken care of...

One more thing I was finding out...SP2 wont let you shut down any service it sees thats unsafe...but they did disable the built in messenger...like it was so hard to go to admin tools and service to shut it down...

So what this is breaking down to...M$ is seeing the end users as being so stupid that they cant run there own OS so M$ now thinks it can run your OS better

Oh yea...it also wont let you disable the new built in firewall either...

9mmCensor · Mar 20, 2004

I wont be touching that for a long time, if at all. I dislike SPs that suck.

dead_man311 · Mar 20, 2004

Oni said:
As for the service pack, I'd wait and let other people be the guiney pigs first.

Im very bored so ill be the guiney pig ill try it out as soon as it downloads , and if i dont like it i can format and redu windows

glock19owner · Mar 20, 2004

Since you are the guinee pig...let us know if what I have been reading is true...especially about the programs and firewall...

dead_man311 · Mar 20, 2004

10 - 4 , its installing now be back later. So far its up a working and working good. firewall is up and going

Only bad thing so far is on style XP i can change my theme or visual style , but everything else on it works

delljunks · Mar 21, 2004

cool sounds good, what else? does it work well? inform us!

EDIT: i'm d/ling this now, I will give it a try!

dead_man311 · Mar 21, 2004

its been working good no problems at all

gt24 · Mar 21, 2004

What do you like/dislike about service pack 2? What do you see is potential advantages/disadvantages to anybody wanting to try it out?

dead_man311 · Mar 21, 2004

i like the new better firewall , gives you more options , and the security center . other than that i dont see much dif in it

i got to go now , my uncle passed away this weekend so i will try to get back with you's with more on SP2 asap Take Care All

delljunks · Mar 21, 2004

oh sorry to hear about that

dead_man311 · Mar 21, 2004

delljunks said:
oh sorry to hear about that

Thank you , its been going pertty good. only bad thing is it takes a death to say any of my family

So far the SP2 is working good

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