Anyone have any trouble with it?
I need to have it if I want to use the bluetooth link between my laptop and my palm, but I've heard so many bad things about SP2, I don't wanna go there if it means a shitload of incompatability issues.
The ones I'm most concerned about are Zonealarm, and driver hang ups on bootup.
SP2?
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Mister Bushice
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Re: SP2?
I've heard the same things about SP2, especially if you're updating an existing installation, so I just let it slide until recently.Mister Bushice wrote:Anyone have any trouble with it?
I need to have it if I want to use the bluetooth link between my laptop and my palm, but I've heard so many bad things about SP2, I don't wanna go there if it means a shitload of incompatability issues.
The ones I'm most concerned about are Zonealarm, and driver hang ups on bootup.
When I installed my new primary HD a week or so ago and reinstalled my system I downloaded all of the updates, including SP2, so it was essentially a new installation. I haven't had any problems so far and my machine is running at least as well as it did when it was new. I don't have a personal firewall installed, though.
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I found a list of programs that had difficulty with SP2. It wasn't short, and some of the programs are actually Microsoft windows programs. Unbelieveable.
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how about zone alarm?
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —GWB Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
Martyred wrote: Hang in there, Whitey. Smart people are on their way with dictionaries.
War Wagon wrote:being as how I've got "stupid" draped all over, I'm not really sure.
SP2 has been out long enough that it should play nice with most antivirus and firewall software. I waited until about a month ago to install it on my two XP machines and I had no problems. I don't use zone alarm though so your results may vary. Check recent posts on their forum to see if there are still issues.
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cool. Good to know. I have all of the other updates from MS installed - man do they have some gates you have to jump over to get that stuff now! I had to install a program that verifies the license after I installed an installer that would install the updates.
I was only holding off SP2 because I saw nothing to indicate they had addressed the incompatability problem.
I was only holding off SP2 because I saw nothing to indicate they had addressed the incompatability problem.
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —GWB Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
Martyred wrote: Hang in there, Whitey. Smart people are on their way with dictionaries.
War Wagon wrote:being as how I've got "stupid" draped all over, I'm not really sure.