Re: Is it worth taking SP2 yet - or wait?

[Henry Timm]

WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I lost my HP laptop even after following Microsofts instructions to
install... and i've been waiting for about 2 weeks now to hear back if they
have any idea of how to fix it... Luckily i have other computers i can use
but SP2 has put me back in the market for a new laptop.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

If your laptop is damaged to the point of needing replacement laptop,
something other than SP-2 caused it.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Henry Timm" > wrote in message
...
> WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I lost my HP laptop even after following Microsofts instructions to
> install... and i've been waiting for about 2 weeks now to hear back
> if they
> have any idea of how to fix it... Luckily i have other computers i
> can use
> but SP2 has put me back in the market for a new laptop.

[Wesley Vogel]

I sure hope you *find* it!

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,
Henry Timm > hunted and pecked:
> WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I lost my HP laptop even after following Microsofts instructions to
> install... and i've been waiting for about 2 weeks now to hear back
> if they have any idea of how to fix it... Luckily i have other
> computers i can use but SP2 has put me back in the market for a new
> laptop.

[Joe Billionaire]

My experience didn't go so well with Microsoft, and the applications that didn't work with it were:
Microsoft Office 2003
XP Home

Everything else worked fine...so here's what happened:

Outlook 2003 - could not find Word 2003 as the email editor; Office Assistant not available;
customizing not available; broken
Word 2003 - new documents could not be registered; no ability to link documents; broken (ALL Office
2003 components fully up to date)
Windows Installer - could not install, re-install, repair or maintain any Office 2003 OR XP Home
component; broken
System Information - broken due to malfunctioning WMI, which was broken
Services editing - broken ability to stop, disable some services
Services Dependancies availability - broken; NOTHING showed up as a dependancy
WMI - broken
RPC - altered & broken
DEC - totally fuzzy what this is, so assumed broken since too many MS
..exe's didn't work properly w/ or w/out it
Desktop Icon graphics - broken
Speed for anything (applications, windows, browser, surfing etc) -
lost 20%
Ability to rollback SP2; Windows Installer broken, therefore broken

Soooooooooo I did a CD repair and this happened:

All of the above - FIXED!
Word 2003 - no error msgs
Word 2003 Office Assistant - restored even though the little fool is
annoying!
Outlook 2003 - able to find Word 2003 as the editor
Speed; surfing, opening files, windows, applications - gained 20%

All back to usual. Sorry MS but SP2 didn't work for me. I didn't
trust the Rollback either since I've seen issues with that posted.