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The Verdict on WinXP SP2?
A reader writes: "Now that time has passed, people have been giving their opinions as to the effectiveness of Windows SP2. The jury has been good, but mixed." The ITMJ Product Guide is part of OSTG; what's been your, if any, experiences with SP2?
Most users are going to be confused by the firewall (i.e. my mother) this is not making easier to work with computers. WinXP should be strong enough to be safe with open ports.
Please keep the Service Pack 2 shot my mother and buggered my dog posts to a minimum.
Thanks,
You need windows to run it, so he's waiting until it can be emerged or apt-gotten other his Linux installation :-)
Trolling using another account since 2005.
"After spending an hour on the phone with Microsoft's India-based support team, I resolved the problem. Unfortunately, I never figured out the cause or the fix; things were just suddenly working."
HE resolved the problem without knowing the cause or what he did! WOWSA, it's like magic DOODZ! Better grab this guy for your support team, he's worth his weight in gold!
MS Hint: When speaking to Indian based MS support, for best results, hop up and down three times on left leg. Please contact support if leg is inoperative, leg is missing, or gravitational challange is experienced. A patch will be provided.
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
What does that mean? The people who are judging the product consists of white and black males and females,with some straight, gay, disabled etc representatives?
Or do they mean that the verdict was good, but mixed. Which means...mixed, and not good.
It looks like the grammar and spelling of the articles posted here are being dumbed down to the level of most of the comments!
> The firewall is either on or off, not very
> configurable.
Well, even with only those 2 options, you still have one more than you need, so just turn the bugger to off like everyone else.
Sounds to me that the system was crappy from the beginning and was ripe for a complete re-install. One re-install of Windows per year is what I have found out keeps it reasonable stable. (OK, depends on what tricks you have been doing with the system.)
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I bought my parents a 2400 a little more than a year or so ago, and things ran fine on it, until told them to install SP2. Now, for some reason, it's slow as hell; every little mouse click takes a very noticable pause. At first I thought it was malware, but we ran Adaware on things and nothing's helped. I think I've covered everything I can:
I've installed a decent video card
It has 768MB of RAM in it
It's firewalled (hardware router/firewall)
It has zonealarm just in case
It has Norton Antivirus
No programs installed in the last 9 months
It's been defragged
The only conclusion I have is that it's SP2. The Dimension was a little slow before, but once SP2 was installed, it went from a consistent 'kind-of' slow to a now progressively slower and slower system. Grr! I'll have to do windows reinstall next time I visit. Probably stick to SP1
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