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'"

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Very long list

[ack154]

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.

Re:Very long list

[NETHED]

827778 You receive a "There was an error updating the Registry" error message when you start Sound Recorder.

Thats a personal favorite of mine. What the hell does sound recorder need to update the registry for?

Re:Very long list

[halowolf]

What the hell does sound recorder need to update the registry for?

Windows XP keeps a list of programs recently run in the registry I believe... hey you asked! :)

Re:Very long list

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Very long list

[LnxAddct]

You have no idea what you are talking about. Most apps use some kind of lib or something to access their configs, that keeps the config to a standard, at least internally to the app. If you have another application that needs to access that config, its usually fairly easy to do so. What your saying is, its good to make it easy for any application to access any other application's configuration. How often do you just randomly pick a registry entry and decide to use it for something? When you write your program you know what you'll need and you predefine the config files or in your case the registry. As long as you know what your accessing and how to access it, nothing else matters. The worse thing about the registry is how easily it becomes corrupted. Also, as far as I know there is no tool bundled with Windows to allow you to edit the registry from the command line. So what do you do when your registry is hosed and you can't boot to a gui? I may be wrong, but I don't beleive there is a way to edit it easily from DOS, and booting into Linux is useless because the registry isn't editable with a text editor or something simple like it should be. The registry is a great idea in theory, but horrible in practice.
Regards,
Steve

Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[USAPatriot]

Of the list of slashdot topics, only Microsoft and the Windows icons are of a derogatory and belittling nature.

Why is it so hard that the editors can't use the appropriate icons for them?

It's time this site starts to grow up.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[Anonymous Coward]

What are you talking about? The one for Apple has a huge bite taken out it!

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[dave420]

Indeed. How are people supposed to take Linux seriously when a very large (and very vocal) linux-friendly community uses such childish imagery to describe their competitors. If you go on microsoft.com, they don't call linux "linsux" and have pictures of tux fucking a hooker.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[Anonymous Coward]

pictures of tux fucking a hooker.

I totally need this for my desktop wallpaper.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[Megaweapon]

It's time this site starts to grow up.

..says the guy with the all caps, boldface sig.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[dave420]

And that means you get away with being immature how, exactly? Or, is this just another really, really good example of the double-standards this site has with Microsoft?

Whatever MS does, good or bad, is branded bad and accepted. Whatever linux does, good or bad, is branded good and anyone who says otherwise is a troll.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[maxwell demon]

Found on planetspace.de:

"Microsoft is not the Borg collective. The Borg collective has got proper networking."

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[nova20]

Of the list of slashdot topics, only Microsoft and the Windows icons are of a derogatory and belittling nature.

I think that the education icon is somewhat belittling... 2+2=5 ?

-nova20

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[mobby_6kl]

>>pictures of tux fucking a hooker.
>I totally need this for my desktop wallpaper.

Well you may want to check this out. Not exactly tux fucking a hooker, but still
1) Tux is involved
2) Fucking is involved ;)

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[Paul Crowley]

Because we fucking hate the bastards! Slashdot is not a corporate news portal - it's still fundamentally a fan-run advocacy site. It's ludicrous to imagine that Slashdot should pretend to be neutral, or mature, about these things

What I want to see...

[rarose]

is the list of bugs they've *introduced*.

Re:What I want to see...

[slashrogue]

Score:5, Insightful? If this were a Linux distro getting an update, this would be marked as a Troll or Flamebait. At the very least, Funny would be more appropriate.

Clarification

[Bikini Kill]

This list is all the bugs that have been fixed in Windows XP through SP2, not bug fixes exclusive to SP2.

Enough Paper ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, this guy printed the list : http://www.microbizz.nl/buglist.jpg

805 bugs

[MDaniszewski]

Out of an amazing 805(?) bugs listed, this has to be my favorite.

Some programs do not work as expected when large files are opened

What about usability?

[ciryon]

Are there any fixes in terms of usability or user interface?

Like the damn message that comes up VERY TIME I wake a windoze laptop from sleep: "Hi! You're connected to your wireless network again. The same network as always, but I just wanted to remind you. The signal strenght is excellent. Click me, and I'll disappear. But be sure that I'll return the next time you start or wake your computer!"

I wonder how many suicides are directly related to windows error and/or informational messages.

Ciryon

Re:What about usability?

[Cat_Byte]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Advanced, make entry EnableBalloonTips, set REG_DWORD to 0

Check out no. 825062

[BubbaThePirate]

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?

My Favourite

[billimad]

326971 - Operating system does not work

Angry Users Demand Return of "Backdoor" Feature

[tenzig_112]

It looks like SP2 also got rid of some useful PC remoting features [in default mode, anyway].

Here's an excerpt from a recent article on the debacle.

REDMOND, WA- Ever since the release of the long-delayed Service Pack 2 for Microsoft's Windows XP, users have noticed a few things missing from the popular OS. Rather than adding new features to Windows, angry customers say this new "upgrade" takes them away. Specifically, the new default configuration in SP2 inhibits the backdoor software that allowed users to access their personal data data, passwords, and credit card data from a remote computer.

"Just a few years ago, people paid through the nose for the convenience of remotely controlling their PC from home or office," explained long-time Windows user Guy Labelle. "I was thrilled to hear that XP shipped with this functionality built in, and it was a big reason I paid for the upgrade."

XP's original default installation included a popup engine, email generator, and a suite of "spyware" applications that allowed Microsoft technicians to run Scandisk and other maintenance utilities in the background, all of it now gone thanks to SP2.

"XP's WinBackdoor was so user-friendly, in fact, that I didn't have to do anything at all," said Labelle. "I'd just sit back and let other people control my PC for me."

Resolution

[boatboy]

Issue:
Error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP.
Resolution:
Error message now placed on gradient green screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP.

Re:This is news?

[Stevyn]

I agree. After I switched to linux I noticed how many people make it seem they're running linux (because of their pro linux comments and being modded up for praising linux), but run windows. Look how many people comment on big microsoft stories. Sometimes it's over a thousand.

I want to see slashdot's webserver statistics showing what people are really running. I wouldn't be surprised if it's only 10-15% of people running linux.

I think in addition to our karma, we should have a linux-o-meter linked to our ID name. That would expose that asshole who shouts out "winblowz," "Micro$oft" and all that other childish crap who's really running windows xp in his mother's basement. There's nothing wrong with people using windows. Hell, I use it at work. It's just when the slashdot "politics" skew the reality of the situation that it starts to get aggrivating.

And by the way, yes I did switch to linux to seem cooler on slashdot because that is all that matters in life.