Testy wrote:

Ahh a former military man, that explains a lot of his drivel.

Testy

"jupiter is a man ^^^^^^^^^" wrote in
message ...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...s/kimball.mspx
















-----Original Message-----
On what do you base this on:
"SP2a sound like a much better choice which should be here

by Xmas."

The likelihood of that happening is almost nonexistent and

almost

without precedent other than these 2:
1. A Service Pack for NT with far greater problems than

Windows SP-2.

2. Windows XP SP-1a released as part of a court

settlement with Sun.

Microsoft Virtual Machine was removed from SP-1 changing

it to SP-1a.

NOTHING else was changed even though there were numerous

fixes already

available.

Since SP-2 is 2, it is not the first release, SP-1 was.
If you wait for an update of SP-2, you will most likely

wait forever

since the most likely event is SP-3 in a year or two.

Instead research and prepare your computer:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

Or you can wait forever...your choice.

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


"M$" wrote in message
...

Well that goes to show once again - NEVER INSTALL the

first release

on
anything!!!!

In 13 years I have never seen or heard of a good reason

for doing

so. While
SP2 may have some needed fixes, it is NEVER so critical

that it

cannot wait
a while till the major bugs are worked out. A set of

good practices

and
common sense will go farther then any SP ever will in

protecting

your PC.
What are the folks doing that have W2k, Win98, Me, etc.?

No, the sky

is not
falling! SP2a sound like a much better choice which

should be here

by Xmas.


"Jim" wrote in message
...

How bout helping me with my problems. Countless people

are having

problems

with this "virus" called "SP2", and a few people

(obviously

Microsoft
employees) say it so great.

Well this will make the third time I've posted about

this, so far

no help!

Here's my problem:

Installed service pack 2.

It wiped out my settings in "Outlook Express."
The Account, POP Server and SMTP Server info were

gone. I

reconfigured,
Now my previously read mail, address book contacts,

etc, are gone.

Plus,
now I'm not receiving any new mail.

How can I get it back? I REALLY, REALLY need to

recover some of

the mail.
Unfortunately for some reason, my System Restore was

turned off.

Thanks - Jim





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