Windows XP SP2

yo truckster

i d/l installed it today and there have been no issues, just more training of another firewall, so i turned my other one off. My wireless networking connection is different but it works. Apart from that I see no othe major changes.

(TOUCH WOOD ON ALL THE ABOVE!)

No probs so far after a couple of weeks. Wireless network still works. I still keep getting unwanted pop up messages on a Win ME laptop connected to the network. Frequent reminders of security advice on server, but I can live with that.

It's all been sweet here.

I haven't plugged the laptop into the network at home yet, so will see what happens when I do.

It does tell me that it can't find a virus protection software, apparently there is a bug between SP2 and Symantec, (virus software is still operational, just SP2 can't detect it)

Truckster, we've got it on several PC's at work. No problems so far. The firewall will need training but thats a no brainer.
John

Truckster,

Got it on both dekstop and workstation at home and all is fine. It only reset some of my minor customisations (couple of QuickLaunch shortcuts and some custom Sent To Items).

I had a similar issue with it complaining about not finding Nortons, but after updating Nortons, the Security Center was finally happy and was able to see that NAV was installed properly and running.

However, rolled it out onto a couple of workstations at work and it seems to have agrivated Citrix's already flakey printing, but with a bit of driver tweaking I may be able to get around this.

So all in all, no major issues to report thus far from my experience.

cheers,
Sam.

That would have to have been the longest update in history! The whole process took about 45mins to an hour.

There are different size upgrades apparently. Mine was 110meg, mates was 145meg, and complete upgrade if you have not run patches before is over 280meg!

Gave up and went to bed, will see what happens when I try and reboot it tonight.

We are putting it on all our computers before they go out the door for both our computer shop and our surveillance company, no dramas yet, however I have a feeling next time we hook a Camera machine up on the net it's firewalls may cause complications. Like everything microsoft, when you disable these features you are no always guranteed that it has actually got rid of EVERYTHING.

Installed Today - New features are cool. No probs yet

Gaz

Regarding XP in general.

I'm about to upgrade my system and was considering XP Pro as the OS over current 2000 Pro.

Are there any significant benefits??

Ta

Installed sp2 and when shutting down i got the (blue screen of death) but its been fine since reboot .

I work at IBM and we are being told not to upgrade to SP2 for security reasons.

I'm not sure why, but I'll see if I can find out some more detail behind that stance.

I had a printer problem ,but a miner fix & I turned the firewall off as I took to long to train Nortons to start again. 4 computers on network & all working fine but had 83 fixes when I ran Norton system works

Installed SP2 Friday. Previously stable machine has crashed 6 times. Have now rolled back to the previous and all ok again.