Supreme Cmdr Posted August 9, 2004 Report Posted August 9, 2004 You read this for the bulletin and links
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 12, 2004 Author Report Posted August 12, 2004 For those of you on the fence, MS has released a tool which can be used to disable the delivery of SP2 via AU or WU. You can find the information over here.
Joel Schultz Posted August 12, 2004 Report Posted August 12, 2004 To any fence sitters who elect to disable SP2 delivery as noted by SC above: should you elect to sit on it, 120 days after 8/16/2004 MS will tilt the fence so you fall off into SP2 land, so to speak. Delivery disablement is temporary.
Guest Posted August 23, 2004 Report Posted August 23, 2004 ill wait the standard 4 months after any windows update to give the hard working blockheads at MS the time they need to fix their fix or else my PC gets the 'fix' from using their fix.
Mordax Blyrr Posted August 23, 2004 Report Posted August 23, 2004 my ideas exactly... The definition of MS's upgrades: Fix old bugs, put new in. Then again, this is a Service Pack... should be different, eh?
LostInSpace Posted August 23, 2004 Report Posted August 23, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Joel Schultz: To any fence sitters who elect to disable SP2 delivery as noted by SC above: should you elect to sit on it, 120 days after 8/16/2004 MS will tilt the fence so you fall off into SP2 land, so to speak. Delivery disablement is temporary. What if you use an external firewal, not the built in one that's in XP. Like Zone Alarm. You should get a message that states: "Windows update is requesting access to the internet click YES or NO". Clicking no will deny the update process from proceeding. I'm assuming this should work if you don't want to update the XP even after the four months.
Tribunal Posted August 23, 2004 Report Posted August 23, 2004 I've disabled my automatic update and my windows update features in my control panel, so I don't think that they will be able to sneak that in while I am online... If someone's going to bugger up my computer it had better be me!!!!
Wolferz Posted August 24, 2004 Report Posted August 24, 2004 Time to start an SP2 horror story thread? I have already experienced my own. Wiped the partition and reloaded XP. Damned inconvenient I must say.
TSCavalier Posted August 24, 2004 Report Posted August 24, 2004 I let it install itself last night, no problems. So far it has warned me that AIM needed a hole in the firewall, so I let it. Kinda cool how you are notified of such things instead of it simply not working. Also, the pop-up stopper now built into IE works well. Those are the only surface changes I've noticed so far.
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 25, 2004 Author Report Posted August 25, 2004 Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2
Kalshion Posted August 27, 2004 Report Posted August 27, 2004 Installed it both on this computer and on a computer back at the school I attended before graduation So far, no problem's on either (then again, I havn't checked the one at the school.. suppose to next week on monday *first day of school*, to make sure nothing went wrong) Only problem with mine here is that the pop up blocker doesn't seem to work, it's enabled but it still won't block the ad's
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 28, 2004 Author Report Posted August 28, 2004 How do I recover my computer if the install of Windows XP SP2 failed, and left my computer unbootable?
Mordax Blyrr Posted August 28, 2004 Report Posted August 28, 2004 Err, SC I hope you didn't post this link due to your own experience with SP2?
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 28, 2004 Author Report Posted August 28, 2004 I have no problems with SP2; I only posted that for the same purpose that I post on the site.
quantum Posted August 29, 2004 Report Posted August 29, 2004 Also haven't had any problems with SP2. Installed it a couple of day's ago.
LostInSpace Posted September 9, 2004 Report Posted September 9, 2004 Microsoft is doubling the number of months that corporate customers can block automatic delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft extends block to SP2 auto update
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