Merged: Windows XP SP2 - discuss it here! - Page 24

Shaun · 11-08-2004, 14:08

I must admit I've had a fair few programs crash on me since install, but I took a ghost of my C drive before I installed it so I can always roll it back if I need to.

Hopefully it'll just be bugs and they'll sort themselves out.

Paul K · 11-08-2004, 14:12

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Originally Posted by dellwear

I must admit I've had a fair few programs crash on me since install, but I took a ghost of my C drive before I installed it so I can always roll it back if I need to.

Hopefully it'll just be bugs and they'll sort themselves out.

Weird that, I've not had a hang, crash or stutter since install and that was a clean install on this PC and a dirty install on the networked PC

Mind you I still go with my previous post in situations like this

11-08-2004, 14:24

I've had no problems with the RC2 version on my notebook, so that's weird

Jon M · 11-08-2004, 14:43

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Originally Posted by Frank

2180 is the official built, 2158 is the timestamp...

More glaring a problem is that Micro$oft's have made a right dogs dinner of the TCP/IP stack and you can't open more than 10 half open connections, increased to 50 by a patch. I'm still getting error messages in the event viewer and website timeouts, which totally sucks.

I've been researching this issue.. and have seen many conflicting views from people as to the real world effect of this.

Do you have any more details on what this restriction will prevent the normal user from doing?

MadGamer · 11-08-2004, 21:24

Has that update from Symantec been released yet?

Tezcatlipoca · 11-08-2004, 21:31

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

Has that update from Symantec been released yet?

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/ent...e/sp2/faq.html

MadGamer · 11-08-2004, 22:52

Which version should i download cos i dont see NAV 2002 Pro listed.

11-08-2004, 22:53

I think my anti-virus software needs an update, because the unistall application crashes when I try to remove the firewall (since XP's is all I need).

stuey82 · 11-08-2004, 23:13

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

Do you have any Symantec products eg Norton Antivirus? If you do it is/was in your case recommended that you download the update from them so that your product will be compatible with SP2.

I was aware there wasn't a patch (thanks to this forum) from Symantec so I didn't want it to cause any conflicts with my pc so I removed Norton security all together and just went back to just norton antivirus only and set the security centre to un-monitored. Works a treat.

Last time I installed SP2 with Norton Security working... it caused numerous problems and crashed constantly.

I am very shocked Symantec haven't sorted out a patch already. You would think Microsoft would have worked with them to get a patch out before the launch of SP2.

Frank · 11-08-2004, 23:53

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Originally Posted by s1lv3r

I've been researching this issue.. and have seen many conflicting views from people as to the real world effect of this.

Do you have any more details on what this restriction will prevent the normal user from doing?

Yeah there certainly are many conflicting views, but all I know is since I installed sp2 my Azureus is running like pigsh*t and when I try to browse with P2P software open it simply does not work on any website, yet the downloading continues.

Since installing a patched tcpip.sys, there is no difference to the browsing/downloading state, yet the eventlog warnings about maxing out tcp/ip connections have stopped. Seems totally screwed to me and I may end up renstalling.

Tezcatlipoca · 12-08-2004, 00:20

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

Which version should i download cos i dont see NAV 2002 Pro listed.

Yep, the Product Update tab has no mention of NAV 200x.

As such, I would say that you shouldn't download *any* of the other patches, because they are not for your particular product.

Perhaps NAV 200x doesn't actually need patching.

Also, from the FAQ:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/ent...e/sp2/faq.html

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Q: Which Symantec products will the product update apply to?

A: The product update applies to customers who use Symantec Client Security, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, and Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition if their client systems are not members of a Windows domain. It also applies to administrators who choose to enable the Windows Security Client in a domain. Product updates for other Symantec products may be released in the future but none are scheduled at this time.

12-08-2004, 00:30

BUT the general public version aint out till 16th better to wait for that one which could be fixed in some way then download this lunk of crap thats out now

jamesclarke555 · 12-08-2004, 00:57

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

So you've added how much extra code to an already bloated XP and it now runs faster? Hmmmmmm

I can see you're gonna love longhorn

12-08-2004, 00:59

lets not go there lmao

MadGamer · 12-08-2004, 10:56

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Originally Posted by peacedude2k4

BUT the general public version aint out till 16th better to wait for that one which could be fixed in some way then download this lunk of crap thats out now

I installed the version for developers and IT Professionals. I think ill uninstall and wait for the proper release on Windows Update.