OT: Poll: Who's using XP SP2?

BrianStanding wrote on 4/12/2005, 2:49 PM

After reading the earlier thread about "Delayed Write Failures," I'm debating whether to reinstall a vanilla XP SP1 with no hotfixes, or to plunge into SP2 and add ALL the hotfixes since SP2s release.

Anyone using SP2 successfully with ALL their applications/hardware?

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PeterWright wrote on 4/14/2005, 5:08 AM

J mac - I have exactly the same mobo and dual AMDs - and SP2 is behaving ok so far.

Mind you, this PC is not connected to the internet. When I tried SP2 on my internet PC everything went wrong, so I restored that to to pre SP2.

JJKizak wrote on 4/14/2005, 5:40 AM

Not using XP2 at all and not even thinking about installing it over XP1.

JJK

billybass wrote on 4/14/2005, 5:58 AM

I'll second what SonyTSW said about the msdv.sys file that comes with sp2. Camera control became grayed out when sp2 went in. I could still capture using the cameras controls. When I got the sp1 version of msdv.sys back into the system the grayed out controls returned.

BrianStanding wrote on 4/14/2005, 7:37 AM

Thanks for all the good info. I will probably be doing a complete hard drive format and installing SP2 from scratch over the weekend. I'll make sure to copy my current MSDV.sys file to a safe place, and reinstall it after the SP2 install.

Any conflicts with the SP2 firewall and 3rd-party firewalls like Zone Alarm? (I don't trust Microsoft to block its own software from calling home.)

rique wrote on 4/14/2005, 8:21 AM

Any conflicts with the SP2 firewall and 3rd-party firewalls like Zone Alarm?

Not here. I just turned the MS one off. ZA wokrs fine.

ken c wrote on 4/14/2005, 8:27 AM

XP is horrible compared to win2k - it's slower, not as "lean", and seems to take up more system resources.. its' basically the build that MSFT created to try and license online to reduce piracy, offering no additional significant features compared to win2K.

I have win2k on 2 machines, including my primary, and winXP on my laptop + wife's pc (came with them pre-installed), and they're a lot slower and not as good as my default win2k machines.

test it for yourself.. :P

ken