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Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-waiting-for-bugs-created-list dept.

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'"

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  1. Very long list by ack154 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a giant list of all of the updates, and then links to the KB numbers on the left, so you can read what each one was.

    Side note: one of my favorites:

    MS03-021: A flaw in Windows Media Player may permit the Media Library to be accessed

    At first, I was thinking that it was supposed to do that ... but after reading the KB, it's an ActiveX problem that can allow a webpage to access your media library. Then again, MS has always really vague and stupid titles.

    1. Re:Very long list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I love the one just above that one.
      "Windows XP Does Not Recognize a DVD-RW Disc"
      I had to move all the files off of my DVD-RW disks, download a new version of InCD, reformat the disk then load all the files back onto them, resulting in hours and hours of wasted time.
      SP2 recognized the disk but would not allow me to transfer any new files to the unallocated portion of the disks. Everything worked just fine before SP2.

  2. Check out no. 825062 by BubbaThePirate · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Bug fix no. 825062.

    ..."Service Pack 4 Permits You to Remove the Service Pack by Using the Recovery Console".

    ..."The information in this article applies to:
    * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
    * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
    * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4".

    Are they intentionally driving up the number of bugs fixed?

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