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Microsoft Lists SP2 Incompatibilities
thejuggler writes "ZDNET has a story about how the new XP SP2 causes conflicts with over 50 applications and causes problems with others including some of Microsoft's own products. The 'glitch' as they are calling it seems to be that the Windows firewall system is turned on by default and blocks unsolicited connections to your computer. You have to unblock certain ports as your applications require to make the apps work again. They are calling this a glitch, but I thought we wanted everything blocked by default so we would have to choose what was unblocked?" The BBC has a story as well.
The answer is emerging. Check back in a couple of days.
I believe you are lying, or at the very least mistaken. Please name your:
-video card
-exact driver version
-dvd player software
Nvidia put in some macrovision protection in some of their drivers, so you likely changed drivers while changing to SP2 and conveniently left that out of your story. the fact that you "rolled back" instead of "uninstalled" leads to to believe this is the case, as a rollback liekly took you back to your last driver install since SP2 is uninstallable through A/R programs and doesn't need a restore point.
This IS an issue, but an nvidia driver issue. It's only on certain macrovision protected dvds with a certain flag set in the macrovision properties.
Sheesh, mac posters. We know you have macs, we know they're pretty and we know they now run unix. We know all of that. We have accepted it. You don't need to repeatedly remind us that you have a mac. We get it already. Can you all refrain for just one story about computers from pointlessly interjecting with some off-topic ego-rant about macs? Objectivity, folks - we need all of it we can get.