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Anyone here messed around with it enough to find out what all it breaks? I just want to find out how much the phone is going to be ringing for the next month or so.
for example if you go to Download.com, and download a program, normally the "file download" dialogue opens.
XP SP2 blocks that and the user has to manually allow the download to happen.
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Possibly some changes made to Winsock?
TJ
.. or you can perservere with the 280 MB download yourself (hint: find someone with DSL and a CD writer).
I'll get the cd, and worry about it in February....
Apropos of which, the "IT guy" at work didn't even disable the "background" update in XP - I finally went around and fixed all 70 pcs today.... *sigh*
The only reports of things "breaking" keep coming from users who don't understand the new firewall setup - almost everything is "off" or closed by default - sniffers (on Windows? LOL) work fine, you'll just have to configure the firewall settings to allow access.
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You can turn it off and install anything you want - many users report that it recognizes existing mainstream firewall installs and doesn't initialize itself in that case.
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My point is to bring to your attention the vast improvements that (Windows XP Service Pack 2) offers, even in the face of some continued bad press ... you should take a serious look at what benefits your company can gain from its deployment.
[microsoft.com...]
Re: the scanner not working comment, you'll see incomplete packets via raw sockets is disabled, effectively killing nmap until they fix it to not use raw sockets, which it used to do in old iterations.
Good (and prescient) article about raw sockets in XP:
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Oh, no, "Star Trek StarFleet Command III 1.0" stops working properly! Actually, more seriously, so do Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and SQL (in certain circumstances).
Mostly, it seems, it is simply a firewall issue, and you can solve most problems by opening the appropriate ports to allow the programs to communicate properly.
XP SP2 going live this weekend.
Doesn't look like it was last weekend... or even next weekend: [theinquirer.net...]
I'll never understand why people jump into new operating systems before SP1 is released.
I'll never understand why people volunteer themselves as early adopters of patches and updates.
I'll never understand why humans are so preoccupied with becoming guinea pigs.
::: shaking head :::
Yah, some of the most frightening program "breaks" are SQL, a couple of versions of symantec anti-virus (that made me laugh - a security update breaking your anti-virus solution), ColdFusion MX Server (does anyone actually use coldfusion?)...
And on and on.
Some of the generalized "update might break this type of program" are kinda interesting, namely FTP Clients and the ominously vague:
New mail notifications in some e-mail programs
What do you want to bet the Outlook will work fine and T-Bird and other non-MS e-mail clients will break? Any bets?
New mail notifications in some e-mail programs
All MS meant was if you're using an e-mail client to connect to Exchange Server, for example, the firewall will prevent the notification of new mail from getting through unless you tell the firewall to let it through.
In almost every case the list of programs [support.microsoft.com] that don't function immediately after installing SP2 can be corrected with a simple firewall adjustment.
1. It appeared to add a button to the Links toolbar in Windows Explorer! This takes you to a Microsoft page of products. Who knows what else has been added behind the scenes? It certainly installed a lot of files.
2. The pop-up blocker Information Bar doesn't appear if you have "Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls" disabled in your IE6 security settings.
The settings also appear to determine what you see. On one PC, the user may see an option to allow pop-ups for that site, but I just get a line that says "Your security settings do not allow Web sites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer. This page may not display correctly. Click here for options...". (The only option given is the help one.) And yet I just turned ActiveX back on to test the site...
I'm sure there's much more fun to be found yet! :)
