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Also of note, a security fix for MS Word:
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And finally, the great SP2 forced update has begun - you may find that your machines or some of your customers' machines are not acting the way you are used to.
Also, the great SP2 forced update has begun
Now this worries me a little. I agreed to be guinea pig for all of us here when they released SP2 first and ended up having to reformat my entire hard drive and reinstall SP1... I hope that they've got it right this time!
Be careful updating if you don't want Messenger!
...ended up having to reformat my entire hard drive and reinstall SP1
Be careful updating if you don't want Messenger!
Messenger is easily removed through add/remove programs and windows components.
Everything seems to work ok except for one small thing... I can no longer access google.com with IE. No joke.
I find it easiest to just rename the exe file...then if for some obscure reason you ever need it you can just change it back later.
Messenger is easily removed through add/remove programs and windows components.
Not after this last update that didn't work on my XP Pro SP1. I ended up using Restore to go back and made sure the mess(enger) update was unchecked.
In another thread [webmasterworld.com] outrun provided a quicker and easier solution.
Is there anything to do to prepare before updating to SP2?
Not that I know of - I've been poking around looking for anything and it seems like the whole thing will just run on the MS autopilot. They are pretty confident that the early confilcts are all resolved.
Related article - "Time Runs Out For SP2 Refuseniks"
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Is there anything to do to prepare before updating to SP2?
Make sure you have a good full system back up with proven disaster recovery.
You probably won't need it, but if for some reason you do it will save you days worth of effort redoing your machine, not to mention it's just a good feeling to know you have options.
I would like to do this now. How do I create a restore point?
C:\WINDOWS\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
Strikes me a much safer way to live ..last time I let IE or outlook near the net was last year just before I got hit with a 2kb encrypted .js file in an incoming mail header .. never did find out what was in it but it killed all files in system folder that began with the letter L ..and exploded outlook ..
So now IE isn't allowed to connect ..and Outlook neither .
Curiosty prompts me to ask you guys ..how big are the file sizes of the current crop of "shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted"...M$ never seems to think of the poor slobs on dialup who are looking at 3 day downloads when they are suddenly auto updated from Redmond
April 13 turned out to be a day of technical trouble on the Internet - with 2 huge spikes of packet loss. From my spot here in Boston trying to send email or get to a website during those periods was like trying to get through a thicket of thorns. I've been looking for some news about the problem but have found nothing -- except that [internettrafficreport.com...] shows the trouble on their graph (see the 7-day packet loss graph right now).
Everything seems to work ok except for one small thing... I can no longer access google.com with IE. No joke.
I'd like to hear more about this. Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior? (I use W2K so can't test myself...)
