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The Verdict on WinXP SP2?

Posted by Hemos on from the the-people-have-their-voice dept.

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?

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  1. Working fine for me by David+Horn · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's been running for nearly six months now on my Thinkpad T40 (I was in the beta program) and I've never had a problem. I've been able to take off my software firewall and let Windows handle it. No stability issues or compatiblility issues.

    A job well done, though it'll pain a moderator to let that last comment stand. ;)

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  2. problems by rayde · · Score: 4, Informative
    i've had loads of trouble... namely

    1) Search no longer working
    2) Windows installer no longer working

    and the fixes MS lists involve long registry edits that don't usually work. And these problems happen on most machines I put SP2 on. :-\

  3. Re:SP2 is risky by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

    It can depend a lot on your hardware.

    If you're unlucky and have a notebook from Acer before October, it's at risk of crashing horribly, for example. Acer said they didn't support SP2 before that date and refuse to give support for any problems caused by their conflicting drivers they didn't fix before SP2 went RTM, by testing with the numerous public SP2 betas.

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  4. Re:Huh? by DigitumDei · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm running a not so cutting edge AMD64 (2800+) and had until recently had few problems. This last weekend I rebooted the machine (since it was acting a little slow and hadn't been rebooted in weeks) and suddenly I can't even start up propely without a DEP happening. And it happens with windows explorer! As you can imagine this was not nice.

    After having to boot into command prompt safe mode and editing the boot.ini file, I managed to get my machine functioning fine again. AntiVirus (trend pc-cillan) claims the machine is clean, I hope it is because it seems that I can now only work with DEP set to AlwaysOff.

    Other than that I have had not real issues with SP2 other than the expected things where stuff was changed from "on by default" to "off by default"

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