WinXP - Service Pack 2 Upgrade and Problems?

DavidJames said:
Installed SP2 yesterday. The only quirk I've found is when opening Explorer (My Computers/Expore), it's sit's with My Computer High Lighted and the flashlight goes for minutes in the right pane. I look at Task Manager and the Idle thread is 99% so it looks like Explorer is waiting for something? Eventually it comes back. Once it shows everything, it works fine.

Odd.
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I found my problem. I needed to apply a special patch to my Canon F60 drivers for SP2. Discovered when my daughter tried to print.
 
BPSCG said:
Sam - I was there. Where were you, thou base and shag-eared villainous poltroon?

:p
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He was lost in Birnham Forest, trying to catch three old ladies with a cauldron.
 
Wudang said:
A good review from the Register here
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This review seems to have installed XP Pro and gave it criticism like it should be Xp Home.

Of COURSE XP Pro has more network services enabled by default. XP Pro is the business networking edition of Windows XP. Duh.
 
rockoon said:
This review seems to have installed XP Pro and gave it criticism like it should be Xp Home.

Of COURSE XP Pro has more network services enabled by default. XP Pro is the business networking edition of Windows XP. Duh.
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Tons of home users install XP Pro..A few OEMs put XP Pro in my default.
 
Just moved four of my five XP machines to the SP2. Two were laptops, two were desktop boxes. No problems with any of them (as yet). I was expecting some problems with the laptops (cranky bitches, they are), but they all came up just fine.

I was especially surprised with the old 800 mhz HP laptop I keep around because it has the Polk Audio speakers that sound REAL nice, and it talks nicely to the GPS unit in my truck and runs off a 12-volt adapter, so I can drive anywhere I want and have the map software show me where I am at all times, a la Goldfinger. It originally came with Windows ME and a 5-gig HD. I got brave about a year ago, opened it up, and replaced the 5 gig with a 40 gig, along with 256 meg of RAM. I use it like an iPod on steroids, taking it to work on Monday and bringing it back home for the weekends. We've got three watchmakers who are supposed to use one computer ( a 100 mhz Pentium running Win 98: soooo hi-tech ). I've got all the tech references loaded on the laptop so I don't have to leave the bench. Originally, I wasn't going to be allowed to bring it into the new secure facility we moved to three months ago, but my supervisor (in a rare show of support) declared that he liked the work I did with it, and forced the security people to let me bring it in and out. Guess it helps that I'm the most computer-literate person outside of the IT staff (located in another state).

Unlike most single machine owners, I downloaded the systems admin SP2 file and copied it off to a CD so I wouldn't have to wait thru the 45 minute download for each machine. Don't know what problems might crop up using the online SP2 patch. I actually paid for the SP1 upgrade disk (I was using dial-up then, and heard many-hour-long download horror stories), and decided having a hard copy on disk was a good thing.

I've got one last desktop box to upgrade, used mainly as a file server for the rest of the home network. I really need to take it down to bare metal and reload everything (been a few years). Might help to install a USB 2.0 card as well, and get one of those portable USB DVD write drives for backing stuff up.

Regards;
Beanbag
 
Whyatica said:
Tons of home users install XP Pro..A few OEMs put XP Pro in my default.
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While that may be true, it still negates their criticism about network services being on by default. For that product they are supposed to be on by default.
 
Soapy Sam said:
One can't help wondering if any of the problematical upgrades involved original installations of- how to put this- irregular provenance?
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Um, no. <strike>I</strike> <strike>A friend</strike> A remote aquaintance that I don't know the name of tried installing and got a message that the product code was invalid and likely pirated. (Please contact your system administrator.) This did not hurt <strike>my</strike> <strike>his</strike> their computer. After aquiring a new product code through <strike>illicit</strike> completely legal methods it installed just fine. And so did <strike>my brother's</strike> some random person's upgrade.
 
Windows XP is always trying to harrass me into taking SP2.

Nope, I'm not doing it. :p

My latest Steam update has got Counter-Strike: Source working again and I'm not pressing anything that might change that.

Enemy spotted! :D
 
I loaded SP2 last week, no troubles yet. Smooth install and it picked up my anti-virus settings flawlessly.

Pretty simple & straightforward Dell system though. The little hand crank generator by the woodstove can only power so much. (Thank goodness for LCD's).

The usual Microsoft arrogance changed some link settings in Internet Explorer. (I expect this now after watching how smoothly Media Player hijacks other companies codecs and calls them as new features.)

Those who rise from private citizens to be princes merely by fortune have little trouble in rising but very much in maintaining their position. - Machiavelli
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SP2'd XP Pro with no problems apart from the fact that I've so far been unable to get automatic updates to work. I don't actually want to enable automatic updates, but I get a nag balloon every time I boot up, which is irritating. Anyone know how to turn this off ?
 
To Wipeout:

After the first reboot since SP2, Steam refused to connect even after I'd told the firewall to allow it. But another reboot got everything back to normal.

Praise the reboot, solver of all problems!

You shouldn't have have anything to worry about.

PS is CS:Source any good? any major differences in gameplay? Does it still feel like CS?

My name is Underemployed and I am a Counter-Strikeaholic.
 
asthmatic camel said:
SP2'd XP Pro with no problems apart from the fact that I've so far been unable to get automatic updates to work. I don't actually want to enable automatic updates, but I get a nag balloon every time I boot up, which is irritating. Anyone know how to turn this off ?
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Yep just turn on automatic updates. :p
 
asthmatic camel said:
SP2'd XP Pro with no problems apart from the fact that I've so far been unable to get automatic updates to work. I don't actually want to enable automatic updates, but I get a nag balloon every time I boot up, which is irritating. Anyone know how to turn this off ?
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I set mine to "Notify me but don't automatically download or install them", so I only get a balloon when there's a new critical update available, and since this is windows we're talking about here, that will only happen... oh I dunno... four or five times a day max.
 
The speakers on my Toshiba Saltellite Pro laptop have been very quiet since I installed SP2, not silent, but even at max volume they are barely audible.

Everything else went OK
 
Originally posted by Underemployed To Wipeout:

After the first reboot since SP2, Steam refused to connect even after I'd told the firewall to allow it. But another reboot got everything back to normal.

Praise the reboot, solver of all problems!

You shouldn't have have anything to worry about.
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SP2 might protect me from problems... but it might also cause problems. ;)

I'll leave it just now but I'm kind of curious as to if CPU hyperthreading still makes Home XP think there are two processors.

PS is CS:Source any good? any major differences in gameplay? Does it still feel like CS?
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It's pretty good. Only map so far is Dust. Not a huge difference to the standard CS.

I've played with and against more than 40 players sometimes, though. That'd be fun on Iceworld. ;)

Everything sort of feels different but similar, if that makes any sense. There are guides at places like csnation.net that highlight differences.

Seems like guns function similarly. Flashbangs and smoke are much more impressive. The smoke is often so thick that no-one dares to go through it in the main building and instead just hang about either side and take potshots through it.

Graphics are smooth but not spectacular, sounds are improved.

The ragdoll physics can lead to some comedy deaths. Best one I've seen so far is when a terrorist was grenaded and came flying out the main building backwards diagonally upwards 30 feet and smacked his face right into a bit of a building that sticks out. :D

Some changes to the map, mainly small additions like broken vehicles, oil-drums, milk cartons, bottles and stuff.

There's a broken-down van not far from t-spawn and some terrorists occasionally shout "Defend the van!" and go and camp there and mess about in it for a laugh. Counter-terrorists sometimes find the remaining terrorists on a map are there, trying to stack themselves into a pyramid on top of the van or something. :D

There were some entertaining bugs at first as well.

My favourite was the terrorists could buy as many bombs as they wanted. You'd start a round and they'd be about 100 bombs scattered around t-spawn. :D

First time I knew of it was when I was planting a bomb and heard someone right next to me plant their bomb. I was like, WTF?

Then the skywalkers came and caused trouble for a while as they exploited map bug to run around on top of buildings. I'd camp and AWP them. A Steam update stopped them but before that admin would sometimes set gravity to high. Major problems with that was that your grenade throws went rather a shorter distance... ;)

I was on a server once when the admin set gravity to low. That was cool.

A common one right now is the grenade trick. Someone at spawn who is away from their keyboard might come back might to find 10 madly spinning smoke grenades balanced on their head. :D

My name is Underemployed and I am a Counter-Strikeaholic.
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I've become addicted myself since I've gotten a bit better at CS. Totally lost track of time last night and stayed up way too late. :D
 
Did it yesterday with practically no problems... OK it took me a couple of hours and it took some persuasion to get it to hand over control of my (perfectly fine) firewall to me again, it seemed to be under the misunderstanding that Windows was going to manage my firewall from now on, i can do that mysel thank you very much. Other than that, and the curious fact that i had to tell my computer once again that i want WINAMP and not MEDIA PLAYER to play my MP3's there was no problems.:D

I did notice that my disk kept working and working at first, it turned out that the update had changed some setting in my anti Virus programme. Once they was back to normal everything ran smothly (so far;) ).
 
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