Weird News From Microsoft. (service Pack2)
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<div class="IPBDescription">Programs That Might Work "Differently"</div> A friend of mine sent me this in an email titled
"Programs that Service Pack 2 will **** up."
I took a closer look at the link
<a href='http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130' target='_blank'>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130</a>
and I don't think he was far wrong.
The page is titled:
"Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2"
and headings like this
"842242 Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2"
hardly inspire confidence do they?
There's a full list of affected programs on the page if you want
to check out what you'll be putting at risk if you, at some point,
have to download SP2.
I'm not in any rush to download Service Pack 2, and doubt I
ever will be with the constant growing reports that SP2 is causing
more problems that it solves.
Has anybody here downloaded SP2? Has it caused any hassles?
Views/opinions/comments/religious sacrifices here please.
QUICK EDIT:
I feel I should point out that i'm not saying you should or shouldn't
download SP2. I'm simply saying you should check out the known
issues and faults before you accidently screw some of your most used
programs / games up.
"Programs that Service Pack 2 will **** up."
I took a closer look at the link
<a href='http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130' target='_blank'>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130</a>
and I don't think he was far wrong.
The page is titled:
"Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2"
and headings like this
"842242 Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2"
hardly inspire confidence do they?
There's a full list of affected programs on the page if you want
to check out what you'll be putting at risk if you, at some point,
have to download SP2.
I'm not in any rush to download Service Pack 2, and doubt I
ever will be with the constant growing reports that SP2 is causing
more problems that it solves.
Has anybody here downloaded SP2? Has it caused any hassles?
Views/opinions/comments/religious sacrifices here please.
QUICK EDIT:
I feel I should point out that i'm not saying you should or shouldn't
download SP2. I'm simply saying you should check out the known
issues and faults before you accidently screw some of your most used
programs / games up.
Comments
Also, many sites on the Internet use download managers that say "Please wait five seconds for your download to start, otherwise click here". These will no longer work for security reasons - too many malicious sites opening download requests and stupid users clicking "okay" to get rid of the pop-up.
"Differently" does not mean "broken". However, XP is evil.
Also, many sites on the Internet use download managers that say "Please wait five seconds for your download to start, otherwise click here". These will no longer work for security reasons - too many malicious sites opening download requests and stupid users clicking "okay" to get rid of the pop-up.
"Differently" does not mean "broken". However, XP is evil. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
So your saying that if your not an idiot, you don't need SP2 anyways?
I imagine Nero will be patched soon to fix the issue, but an issue it certainly is.
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Lame. I use Nero.
ps: ha ha.
I imagine Nero will be patched soon to fix the issue, but an issue it certainly is. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It does?
/me looks at DVD I just burned
/me looks at screen saying "Service Pack 2"
Works fine... Says it won't, but it does on mine at least...
Hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha, there is a god.
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some of them do, and those aol users wont even realize that they surf in offline modus after installing servicepack 2.they will just think: wowie, service bag 2 rox, my intarweb is 100 times faster now
Iv been looking for that for ages, where do you get it???
Anyway SP2 will probably be fixed with some patches, until then ill pass for 6months till its been sucsefully stablized.
/me looks at screen saying "Service Pack 2"
Works fine... Says it won't, but it does on mine at least... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, I'm going on my roommate's word -- I run Win2k, so the SP doesn't affect me. He said that it broke Nero, though. *shrug* Maybe it depends on your version (since Nero releases a new version every other day, practically).
Hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha, there is a god.
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lol!
Persoanlly most of my programs/games r new and nothing has been seriously broken except for stylexp and that was to b expected.
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some of them do, and those aol users wont even realize that they surf in offline modus after installing servicepack 2.they will just think: wowie, service bag 2 rox, my intarweb is 100 times faster now <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't ever say "All" AOL users. There are a lot of us that are trapped here because of slow/inane/lazy parents.
I myself have this to say: SP2 kicks ****, all except for 1 thing: It breaks mIRC if you have the firewall on. Just turning it on will disconnect you from IRC litterally 30 seconds after you connect, which just totally sucks. D:
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Yet another reason to use Trillian.
Reminds me of my own quote: "I fixed it - now it doesn't work."
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some of them do, and those aol users wont even realize that they surf in offline modus after installing servicepack 2.they will just think: wowie, service bag 2 rox, my intarweb is 100 times faster now <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't ever say "All" AOL users. There are a lot of us that are trapped here because of slow/inane/lazy parents.
I myself have this to say: SP2 kicks ****, all except for 1 thing: It breaks mIRC if you have the firewall on. Just turning it on will disconnect you from IRC litterally 30 seconds after you connect, which just totally sucks. D: <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I uh, didn't say All AOL users. I said most, which is true.
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some of them do, and those aol users wont even realize that they surf in offline modus after installing servicepack 2.they will just think: wowie, service bag 2 rox, my intarweb is 100 times faster now <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't ever say "All" AOL users. There are a lot of us that are trapped here because of slow/inane/lazy parents.
I myself have this to say: SP2 kicks ****, all except for 1 thing: It breaks mIRC if you have the firewall on. Just turning it on will disconnect you from IRC litterally 30 seconds after you connect, which just totally sucks. D: <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I uh, didn't say All AOL users. I said most, which is true. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I know you, did, but it was more to the others.
Remember- there is always a exception to the stereotype. Also remember, I'm one of them.
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Yet another reason to use Trillian. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I just wanted to say trillians irc client sucks
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Yet another reason to use Trillian. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I just wanted to say trillians irc client sucks <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'll start caring about that when I start using IRC.
Doom3 Seems to work better too.