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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. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article's like totally content-free. If you've vaguely heard of XP SP2 before it adds nothing.

    And there are no user reviews on the site - the four-day old "discussion" has been "archived".

  2. 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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  3. SP2 is risky by wiggys · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow talk about relevant... I was at someone's house last night and they had just downloaded Service Pack 2. They were having problems with Internet Explorer so they hoped SP2 would fix it so they let the computer chew away for 5 minutes, then once it was installed they rebooted.

    The computer got 5 seconds in to loading Windows before getting a BSOD (which lasted less than a second) before rebooting again.

    And again. And again.

    After 5/6 crashes it was obvious SP2 had royally fucked the PC up. Luckily we managed to boot up in Safe Mode and use System Restore to undo the effects of SP2 and now the computer is working normally (in fact, the IE problems seem to have gone!).

    Now I am very dubious about installing SP2 at work, I think we'll be forced to upgrade before long but MS clearly still have some bugs to squash.

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  4. A Simple Plea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    My Fellow /.'ers

    Please keep the Service Pack 2 shot my mother and buggered my dog posts to a minimum.

    Thanks,

    1. Re:A Simple Plea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      sp2 actually shot my dog and buggered my mother. ok to post that?

  5. Re:It sucks by brettlbecker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An admission of defeat to install a firewall by default?

    Every linux distro I've installed in the past 8 years has come with a firewall on by default, and most of them were configurable during the install.

    I guess it isn't only MS that's defeated.

    Bummer.

    B

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