Service Pack 2 - Is it bad?

[slyydrr]

i heard mixed things about SP2... about it screwing up peoples computers, giving memory dumps and BSOD's. but that was also from a couple months ago when it was beta. is it safe and good to go now? anyone know who's installed it? anyone know of anyone who's installed it that it got messed up?

 

[SciFiMan]

Probably ok

I have it on two systems at home (Athlon 2500+, XP Pro, 768MB ram, mostly games, AOL, and digi photo use). I did turn off the firewall as I have ZoneAlarm Pro on both. Running fine for 2 weeks now.

At work I have tested it without a problem on a developers laptop. We are mostly W2K at work but I haven't tried it on my primary XP box yet, which does some email archiving, and runs our tape backup robot. Although only because of the notice of a possible conflict with Backup Exec. Probably okay, but I need a Saturday sometime to think it through and do it. If you have old legacy programs you should test first. I'm in no rush to slap it on as my systems are constantly patched and up to date.

I used the 260MB administrators install. It took about 1.5 hours to install on a 366MHz laptop. It took 35 minutes each on my home systems. It forces a restore point creation during the install, and I see that it can be removed if necessary.

 

[slyydrr]

thanks for the info... anyone else w/ good/bad experiences?

 

[YP5 Toronto]

Running it at work, at home on my desktop, and at home on my two notebooks.... no problems so far.

 

[Sir Nuke]

I did a complete new install of XP Pro with SP2 a while back....I have had NO problems what so ever with it.

 

[Captain KRM P5]

it has totally hosed just about anything on my computer, changed settings i did not want it to change and installed firewalls and blocked websites and arbitrarily changed security protocols on pretty much every aspect of my PC and now Outlook does not work properly.

needless to say I just love it.

 

[slyydrr]

it has totally hosed just about anything on my computer, changed settings i did not want it to change and installed firewalls and blocked websites and arbitrarily changed security protocols on pretty much every aspect of my PC and now Outlook does not work properly.

needless to say I just love it.

im sry to hear about that... i'd try installing thunderbird from www.mozilla.org/thunderbird and then importing outlook into it to try and fix the mail problem.

 

[dominoy2k1]

i keep having trouble installing it. it says it cannot copy atapi.sys. i checked the drivers folder and its in there. i click on cancel and it asks if i want to contimue. click on yes. when its finished i am able to connect. the problem is that i cannot browse with any browsers. i am not able to ping out or anything, i do however get a good ip. i dont get it. i disabled the firewall and it does the samething. any help?

 

[Greg S]

Installed it at home, standard configuration no problems at all completely finished in about 25 mminutes. We tried to do it at work on the main computer for our puny wittle windows network and we lost all conectivity to the network printers. Needless to say we removed it and everthing worked fine again. I don't feel like screwing around with the setting to have it work right so I'm just going ot let the morons that work for the computer company that set the system up deal with it. Probably take them three tris to get it right, that's usually how long it takes them to get anything working correctly.

 

[sundevilMP5]

i have it installed on my desktop which was originally windows Me->upgrade to Windows XP home->sp2...it actually fixed a few problems i was having before while at the same time created a few new errors that i haven't seen before...but overall...my system has been running a lot smoother than before...

i also installed it on my lapto which was running windows xp home from the start...no problems there...

i haven't had any problems connecting to any of my servers, networks, computers, etc. etc.

as far as blocking a lot of websites as mentioned above i think there was a hotfix with sp1 that did that...i don't remember which one it was though that blocked most websites that required cookies and such...

 

[changedman]

Ben- did you get my phone call? DONT install it unless your computer (bios) is newer than 03.

 

[changedman]

http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80722

 

[TStar]

atapisys error: sp2 installer can't deal with programs like alcohol/daemon tools/nero who use their own atapi/ drivers.... deinstall those programs, install sp2, reinstall those progs

tcipip.sys: is limited to 10 simultanouis connections. you must patch it in order to run several services..

with those modifications sp2 is running on my server pc (underclocked 1,4tbird) flawlessly since 3 weeks now without a reboot.