Windows SP2

RichP

RichP

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Hey, whoever downloads it first and installs it post your results, curious before I do it on any of mine or my customers :D
 
I have done the beta releases on my desktop, and I give that a "thumbs up". Not yet tried the "release" or "soon to be released" yet though.
I can probably get the release today though and try it just for fun. :)
Glenn
 
I got the release from MSDN on my work machine today and I love it. I had some weird behaviour from the betas and rc's but this one went in without a hitch and so far it's working out real nice.
 
Kejtar said:
I got the release from MSDN on my work machine today and I love it. I had some weird behaviour from the betas and rc's but this one went in without a hitch and so far it's working out real nice.
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Rich, I just grabbed it.
Kejtar, I never had issues with any of the Betas..... but my "work" machines are not dedicated to surfing NAXJA all day either. :)

100%[==================================================================>] 278,927,592 5.72M/s ETA 00:00
12:45:31 (5.72 MB/s) - `WindowsXP-KB-------------SP2-ENU.exe.' saved [278927592/278927592]
 
Glenn said:
Rich, I just grabbed it.
Kejtar, I never had issues with any of the Betas..... but my "work" machines are not dedicated to surfing NAXJA all day either. :)

100%[==================================================================>] 278,927,592 5.72M/s ETA 00:00
12:45:31 (5.72 MB/s) - `WindowsXP-KB-------------SP2-ENU.exe.' saved [278927592/278927592]
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Actually my problems were primarily related to running windows updates reliably. They worked in automated mode but in manual mode things went south in no time. There were other little quirks I ran into before but they must have been insignificant cause I don't remember anymore what they were.
 
How did you find time to Manually update Windows, work for an empoyer, and surf NAXJA all day while at work?
Yer skillz amaze me.

Rich, install went well about an hour ago. Common software all works well. Memory management is as good, if not better than the betas.

My only complain was not recognizing AVG as a valid anti-virus protection solution.
Glenn

Kejtar said:
Actually my problems were primarily related to running windows updates reliably. They worked in automated mode but in manual mode things went south in no time. There were other little quirks I ran into before but they must have been insignificant cause I don't remember anymore what they were.
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Glenn said:
How did you find time to Manually update Windows, work for an empoyer, and surf NAXJA all day while at work?
Yer skillz amaze me.

Rich, install went well about an hour ago. Common software all works well. Memory management is as good, if not better than the betas.

My only complain was not recognizing AVG as a valid anti-virus protection solution.
Glenn
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Does not suprise me, MS will be going after that market as well as firewalls so that there will be some issues with norton, mcafee and zone alarm should come as no big suprise. Guess I'll take thumper here down and bring it back up with XP and see whats what. Hate doing it, means my seti workunit time will go up from 2.3 to 3.4 hours on this 3.4 gig box and I'm only 200 away from 10,000 work units...

Now thats even more interesting, just noticed that poor spelling shows up as red and blinks with konqueror
 
I slammed it to a test group today using Metaframe XP remotely from my office.
Not one complaint in 10 hours.
Yes, the battery in the on-call phone is charged.
HTH
 
bgcntry72 said:
SP2!!!
Now with more swallowing!
That is all.
:shhh:
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You said that was our little secret, I guess that's what I get for believing you when you said you loved me :cry:
 
GSequoia said:
I agree!
What's so special about SP2 that you boys are all excited about it?
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Cause sure as the sun comes up in the morning customers are going to start downloading and installing it before it's been around long enough to evaluate. It is nice to know that it is not going to blue screen every other box AND how to back it out if it won't come up. Alot of companies have instructed their employees NOT to install it till they find out if it works or blows the box up.
 
GSequoia said:
I agree!

What's so special about SP2 that you boys are all excited about it?
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Many security updates that most end users won't notice. Visible changes to AU, IE (security), and OE (security again). It's a pretty big step for Microsoft in their quest to harden their operating system. Then again, it can be a 300 MB download.

I wouldn't roll it out on day 1 in an enterprise, but then again I don't run XP either. ;-)
 
I'm only running XP on one machine at home (my laptop), but am holding off for a few days on installing SP2. Quite frankly, I still have bad memories of 2000 SP2 completely screwing a domain controller I was administering at the time and leaving four remote and one local site sunk. We were able to roll it back (and narrow the problem down to a specific hotfix that SP2 wasn't playing nicely with), but it did leave an entire company dead in the water for almost a full day. Better to see who gets nailed in the update and how than rush into it headfirst and find out.
 
SP2 will cover all patches. Cumulative.... so no worries, other that "why in the heck were ya running an unpatched OS" type of thing. :dunno:
 
Something that my cooworke just came across:
Microsoft shifted between 80-90% of the Windows Client Team off Longhorn development and onto Windows XP SP2. Now, a lot of the features, like IE popup blocking and the No-Execute technology were originally supposed to be in Longhorn. Following the Battle of Blaster, Microsoft regrouped and decided, and rightfully so, that these features could not wait until 2006/2007.

Now you may not have known this, but XP2 was even compiled differently to prevent buffer overflows.
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