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"Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> wrote:
>Sorry, I'm late to this party: What "broadband hour" are we talking about?
>With my cable connection the entire process of installing SP 2, from
>'checking your computer' to restart, took 21 minutes. I used Windows Update
>and downloaded a 79MB patch with a standard Comcast account.
I have Comcast also, it took me about 30 minutes on the
download/install/restart. Then about another 20-30 minutes
tidying the odd thing up. NAV 2002 wasn't eligible for the
update that allows NAV to talk to the new security center, and
the security center didn't find my firewall, so it activated the
Windows [nee ICF] firewall. So I had to adjust that. The IE6
pop-up stopper was activated. Since I use a freebie/shareware
stopper only on sites that are troublesome, the Bill Gates "we
know what's best for you" always on unless you've white-listed a
web site stopper was a non-starter. A couple of other minor
things had to be fine-tuned.
Other than those, expected since I had done my homework before MS
Update told me I could download SP2, minor tweaks, SP2 has been
purring along right smartly, with no adverse effects on any of my
programs. And at one point or another, I've activated and used
most all of my programs that I'm likely to use. [i.e., I have
never burned a CD on my home machine, so I haven't run the EZ-CD
program. OTOH, though I've never used the Corel WordPerfect
Office's Paradox data base program, I did test that one, along
with those programs in the WP Office suite that my clients do
use.]
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