I always get a kick out of people who make something like a SP their
religion. What religious fervor!

This is just to funny!!!! Everyone must install SP2 NOW!!!! or all you SP2
infidels will be shot!!!

Decreed by SP Osama

CNN is reporting that a sleeper cell has high jacked emails and is going to
crush them into Windows XP machines that do not have SP2 installed! Quick
install SP2! Dumb, too late! You have been terrorized! Too bad, you were
warned by the MS FBI but failed to take appropriate action.


Ha! Ha!

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in 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