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Location: Milw, WI | Windows XP SP2
I loaded this on a system I just built 2 weeks ago.
Then had a patch for it last night, while fixing what the nebie user had done to the machine.
She had it sitting on a shag carpet and the air intake was plugged with the shag and the system was over heating.
Noticed the updates waiting, so I ran them.
Then got the promt that nortan systems was un-able to continue and needs to be reinstalled.
Did so , and now the machine is Win-hosed, missing DLL's and then a black screen with just a cursor.
I love being the MS test subjects, thats us the public at large.
While I have scaned the hard with my system and there are no viruses, so it had to be the patch.
PLEASE, take this to hart, back up every thing before doing this update.
This Machine will now be redone, for the 3rd time in as many weeks.
It will be faster to due this than to wade through to see what is wrong.
There is really nothing on this machine at all.
Oh, yea, got hacked in to the first week she was on line using people pc ISP.
Locked me out by setting up a amidistor account and placing a password and who knows what else.
Only in her hands for three days before having to be re-done the first time.
She did not follow my instuctions on what she needed to do for internet saftey and surfed wide open and un-updated.
Had pop ups appearing while running the set up disc for the people PC, during the set up.
While it was getting the local phone numbers to select from.
I have never seen this happen before.
Please take note before loading the XP SP2 update. |
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | Thanks for posting this, I just bought a brand new computer three days ago and it came with Windows XP. I was kicking around doing the SP2 update but will now hold off. I am still trying to get use to XP compared to Windows 98 on the old computer.
Jon Piette NPAA #294 |
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Location: Kaukauna WI | I just built 2 machines this week and also had trouble with SP2 and had to reset one system up again |
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| We have been instruted NOT to do the SP2 update untill further notice, We have over 200 laptops that would be affected, There are many things they are doing to our existing XP software before we do the update.
Good Luck
Tyee |
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| Updated 8 Computers with SP2 , Mostly Dell & Hp's 2-6 years old.
Not 1 Problem All Are working Fine.
Pop Up's
#1Run Pest Patrol , or #2( Spy Bot Search & Destroy1.3 and Adaware)
I have been using The Mcafee Suite ( Antivirus/Firewall/Privacy & Spam Killer) The Spam Killer shut up a machine with the CPU running @90-100%, uninstalled it and that machine is fine. It has a conflict with Outlook/Express.
http://www.pcpitstop.com/
This is a nice Tune up Test gives a lot of info esp Programs running.
Good Luck
It's Just an Appliance
Edited by BlueIceCPA 9/15/2004 7:37 PM
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Location: Monona, WI | I've updated two Dell PC's at home with XP2 with no problems whatsoever. One was XP Pro and the other XP Media Edition. Post-patch performance has not changed. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Backup your data and give it a shot. In the worst case scenario, you'll have to clean off your HD and reinstall XP. With all the garbage that has probably been downloaded and installed on most peoples PC's over the last year, that is probably a 'good' failure. |
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Windows XP SP2