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zpyrd   08-16-2004 at 04:56:34 AM

My experience with SP2 was very bad. I eventually had to reformat and reinstall Windows before I could get it to work.
What is your opinion of SP2?
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Spitfire_x86   08-16-2004 at 05:16:48 AM
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No.

Only useful things in this release are improved windows firewall, IE pop-up blocker, integrated DX9. Integrated WMP9, movie maker2 may prove useful to people who use them. But why it took 2 years to realease this SP? If they released it 1 year after SP1, then I would call it a good. And they added garbage like "Security Center" in this SP.

I didn't try installing SP over old windows installation. I slipstreamed the SP and did a clean install. Had no bad experience with installation.

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ksoth   08-16-2004 at 09:10:35 PM
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I installed SP2 over a current XP install, and it did it just fine. No problems whatsoever.

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dhlucke   08-16-2004 at 09:47:17 PM
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I had no problems at all installing over a SP1 corporate installation. All SP2 has is all the old updates from SP1, plus all the new ones, plus some additional stuff like the pop up blocker, firewall, and virus control panel thing.

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zpyrd   08-16-2004 at 10:34:22 PM
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Earlier today I upgraded a co-worker's computer from WinMe to WinXP Home.
I did a re and re on it to NTFS. Added an extra 256MB of PC133 and replaced the NIC which was fried.
No problem installing the SP2 RTM version.
Although he wanted Norton AntiVirus 2004. What a system hog that program is.

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dhlucke   08-17-2004 at 12:22:35 AM
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Maybe I'm just used to Norton AV. What is it hogging now?

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zpyrd   08-17-2004 at 02:46:56 AM
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It just adds an incredible amount of time to boot up and shut down. Once it's loaded everything is ok. Its just a bottle neck at start up. Or if you forget to shut it off when installing a new app it slows everything to a crawl.

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eden   08-17-2004 at 04:42:54 AM
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I don't get that at all with NAV2004, from my POV. Might be because of an old system you have, but on my XP1600+ system with 512MB RAM, I don't get jerkiness and application installation is fairly fast. It's just when receiving a file on MSN, once it has been received, it hangs for a few seconds before saying the download has been finished and a link to the file is displayed. Must be the AV detecting MSN downloads and scans them.

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dhlucke   08-17-2004 at 04:56:06 AM
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I've noticed that as well. I get a little pop up window like MSN does in the corner.

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eden   08-17-2004 at 09:42:00 AM
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Which pop up window?
I just get a hang and that's all.

I also don't get any pop up windows in MSN except when alerting me of new e-mail and a user online.

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