SGTGriff Posted August 15, 2004 CID Share Posted August 15, 2004 All you experts out there..... What is the general concensus on Win XP SP1a? What does one gain by installing it? The reason I bring this up is I downloaded it this afternoon and installed it, without doing my research. I restarted the computer and all hell broke lose. I couldnt open programs. The computer was slow as a onelegged turtle climbing uphill. After it locked up, I done system restore to the point before the installation of SP1a...... Viola! No more problems. Is this the norm? Should one stay away from SP1? Or did I possible get a crappy download? Enlighten me please. Is this download worth my time? Or is it a waste of hard drive space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted August 15, 2004 CID Share Posted August 15, 2004 Why don't you just get SP2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGTGriff Posted August 16, 2004 Author CID Share Posted August 16, 2004 Ca3le I was wanting to do some research and see if it was worth downloading. Whats crazy is, my download speed is so slow, its like a major decision whether or not I actually need an application/update. The time I spend downloading something that large (which would take me quite awhile), I could spend playing FarCry. Damn what I just said makes it official.... Im a gaming geek. Oh well.... its damn fun!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted August 16, 2004 CID Share Posted August 16, 2004 Since it's so slow, can't you just put it in the background and play FarCry while downloading? Of course, when it's done, you're gonna get a big fps hit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted August 16, 2004 CID Share Posted August 16, 2004 SP2 is pretty bad ass... everything is very snappy for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGTGriff Posted August 20, 2004 Author CID Share Posted August 20, 2004 Downloaded SP2 Installed SP2 Guess what.... the computer kept crashing and I had to reformat . NAhAA just joking . SP2 is pretty sweet. No problems and Smooth running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 20, 2004 CID Share Posted August 20, 2004 You are very lucky... there have been a few problems with the installs... Microsoft has delayed the auto update til the end of the month to patch the patch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildo Posted August 23, 2004 CID Share Posted August 23, 2004 SP2 is sweet! I love the built in Popup Blocker, and my interconnection has never been so fast! I also like that you get a prompt asking if you want to execute a file downloaded from the internet. That may help prevent some nasty executables from running all by themselves. I just downloaded last night, after a reformat and clean install of XP Pro. Today, I slipstreamed SP2 into a XP Pro installation cd. Gil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deltamusic Posted August 23, 2004 CID Share Posted August 23, 2004 Ah yes SP-2. I installed it in early JULY. It took forever to install. Everything was just peachy. I was installing it on my friends. Got home and had a note from MS that I needed to install a "Rollover" patch. Big mistake!! A crash from HELL!! Was able to restore. Yesterday I was told to go to auto update for sp2, but first install the Rollover first.. Would not reboot and all my restore points were gone. Watch out for that patch.. It will bight ya . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 23, 2004 CID Share Posted August 23, 2004 works for some doenst work for others.. u do know that you dont need SP2 if you do a good job maintaining your system.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted August 23, 2004 CID Share Posted August 23, 2004 works for some doenst work for others.. u do know that you dont need SP2 if you do a good job maintaining your system.. I agree with you Swimmer , I believe from what I know and have read that if you maintain your "puter" and stay on top of whats going on ALL these so called fixes for security leaks are not necessary for most people. I rarely have downloaded any of their so called fixes because from the beginning I was able to notice some of the fixes caused different problems,but of course they come out with a fix for the fix that didn't fix anything.....lol I am not advising anyone not to download this stuff, I'm just saying what I do.....and of course its just my opinion .....and I could be wrong....hehe..... At the very least I would not be the first on my block to use this stuff, I would wait awhile and let the techies test ....... Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 24, 2004 CID Share Posted August 24, 2004 Techies have tested SP2 and they are not adopting it yet... to many bugs and they have found a hole in the firewall.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGTGriff Posted August 25, 2004 Author CID Share Posted August 25, 2004 why does Microsoft even bother putting something out thats still jacked up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 25, 2004 CID Share Posted August 25, 2004 Microsoft rules the world.... So when something it broken or exploited they have to put a bandaid on it so that the Industy people dont bitch... That is why we have so many patches for the lovely windows xp os... Other than it is like a car... new models come out... but you dont want the consumer to have to buy $500 software evey year or so... I think that Microsoft is attempting to prolong the life of XP until Longhorn is out and running.. Then I can see 98 being dropped from the support list and 2000/xp becoming the base os for all systems... I hope that you dont have that 400mhz system still running... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 25, 2004 CID Share Posted August 25, 2004 Sorry about the double post... But here is the article that explains the flaw that has already been discovered.. It is from pcmag so it is in plain english...http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1639373,00.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted August 25, 2004 CID Share Posted August 25, 2004 quote from SGTGriff why does Microsoft even bother putting something out thats still jacked up? _________________ I pity the foo who has speeds like me!! (Said in my best Mr. T voice I worked for a company for many years that knew when they were putting software out in the world it had many problems, the attitude always was ,don't worry we have a fix coming out soon.Now the knuckle heads that were saying this got to sit in there offices and screw around until they got it right, because I was the asshole tech out in the field getting chewed out by some customer. I was called in on the carpet many times for telling the customer things like yeah its got a known flaw and a patch is coming out soon.(just being honest with customers that just spent many thousands of dollars.....what a concept)When I was in front of the suits and they were telling me what it is I should have said my response always was .....OH I see you want me to lie to the customer...hehe...that always stopped the conversation with them....LOL I also said many times if you want the customer to be lied to....then you do it because I refuse. I always thought it was funny because they always said ....well we didn't mean that we wanted you to lie or anything like that.....lol The main reason I think this is done is a very old concept....C Y A !!!!! and suits in large corporations have made this an exact science, so why should Microsoft be any different....hmmmmm their not!!!! Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 25, 2004 CID Share Posted August 25, 2004 I agree exactly what you just said about the fact that companies release products that require patches and fixes all of the time... Look at some of the games.. there have been a lot of patches for those and no one complains about that... Now take the fact that just about every piece of software has to have atleast on fix in its life time.. and add the fact that Microsoft is fighting a lossing battle because there a jacksons out there that make it their job to exploit the system... Hmm.... Has there ever been a patch for Microsoft Filght simulator?? Maybe they should get that coding team in and have them write some os code... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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