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Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2
callipygian-showsyst writes "Microsoft has published the complete list of bugs fixed in Service Pack 2.
They range from the obscure like: 'File Appears to Be Deleted Although You Do Not Have Permissions on the OS/2 Warp4-Based Server' to the serious-sounding: ' Stop error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP'"
It's not a dupe. The one you listed is SP2's incompatibilities. This is a list of things it fixes.
This list is all the bugs that have been fixed in Windows XP through SP2, not bug fixes exclusive to SP2.
To update the list of last accessed files? To save different recording preferences like bitrate, input device, etc?
Windows XP keeps a list of programs recently run in the registry I believe... hey you asked! :)
SP1 fixed very serious bugs in Win XP that were not on the SP1 bug list. Also, serious bugs that had been reported a long time before were NOT fixed.
How is the Windows icon derogaroty or belittling?
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If you look very closely, its either a very nice stained glass window, or each pane is cracked.
I leave the decision of which it is to the reader, who shoudl bear in mind that this is
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Advanced, make entry EnableBalloonTips, set REG_DWORD to 0
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
This the list of programs that the built-in firewall will break until you add them to the exception list. Be ready to do the procedure listed in the Knowledge Base article on every machine you apply the service pack to.
Laptops.. they throttle the processor to increase battery life..
That's like saying you know where every configuration file is because it's stored somewhere under '/'.
(Although you do have a point about every program using a different syntax. Using the same syntax does really help all that much because you still have to understand the semantics of what you're changing to screw something up).
HAND.
Sorry, but you're talking out your arse.
I installed SP2 and then it made me re-activate both Windows and Office 2003.
We've deployed it on approximately 100 machines here in the office, and haven't had any activation issues of any kind, with Visual Studio, Office, or Windows XP itself. I also fail to see how a service pack would force a re-activation.
spoke to numerous tech support and activation department employees before they gave me a new product key which could be re-activated. I felt like I was getting interrogated as to why I was re-activating the software
You've apparently never actually had to re-activate windows or office. The very first thing you can do is use the internet to re-activate. 90% of the time this works right off the bat. The second thing you can do is call their 1-800 number, and be connected to an automated phone system. You say/speak the code into your phone, and the system reads back an auth code. Bam, done. If for some reason the phone system cannot understand you, it transfers you to a Real Live Person (tm) who asks for your code, and gives you back an auth code. No interrogation. No questions at all, even.
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The processor can't detect "empty clock ticks"... there's no such thing.
If the operating system determines that no user threads have anything to do, and the kernel has run out of stuff to do to... so it's just waiting for hardware interrupts (keyboard, mouse, network, video, disk, interval timer), rather than sitting around in a loop it executes the HALT instruction which brings the CPU into a low-power state until an interrupt or trap wakes it up.
Otherwise it would have to spin in a loop for a few milliseconds, and that eats juice it shouldn't otherwise need to.
Intel Speed Step CPUs let the operating system use special MTRRs that allow it to dynamically adjust the clock speed in reaction to an increase or decrease of thumb-twiddling time as well. Because a CPU at 1.2GHz halting 50% is still consuming more power than the same CPU at 800MHz in HALT only 20% of the time.
I believe this is the thing that doesn't work in XP without Service Pack II or hotfixes. I've heard about this gripe before.
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