Warren;

This won't help you, but I am in exactly the same boat. Having to explain to
my lawyer client that XP Pro SP2 is a good idea for security, but as a
result of SP2 he now has by far the slowest computer on his office network,
all of his Win98 clients are much faster. (This is a WordPerfect vs. XP2
bug.) I'm now ten hours into fixing it, still failing, and I can't ethically
bill at the usual rate, since I was the one (I almost said, "the idiot") who
recommended and implemented the SP2 "upgrade."

Well, at least it all runs off a reliable Red Hat 9 Linux server. Next step
(maybe), Xandros on all clients.

I really should get out of this business.

TomC




"Warren J. Hairston" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am a reseller/consultant and I appear to be among the many who are
experiencing 30+ second delays in opening the print dialog from ANY
program running under Win XP SP2. My customer's brand new Win XP SP2
machine exhibits this behavior every time he tries to access the HP LJ 6P
shared from his networked Win ME machine.

Unfortunately, this new machine came with SP2 pre-installed, so I couldn't
uninstall it if I wanted to.

I've read several complaints about this problem in various forums, but I
have yet to see a workaround or solution. Is Microsoft working on this? Is
there a possible fix (even in testing) that I can obtain - or do I have to
upset my customer even more by telling him he has to live with it? Would
purchasing a print server device help?

I desperately need an answer, so thanks in advance!
- Warren