SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

I had an absolutely smooth install of SP2. I disabled my AV (Norton AV 2004)
and things went off just great. The only "problem" I had was Norton
complaining about its status being checked by other programs. A simple check
box took care of that though. Love SP2. Great job MS.

Simply running LiveUpdate will download and install the Norton patch that
will update VMI, and then Windows Security Center will recognize the status
of both Norton AV and Norton Firewall.

Bobby

"Jacob Koppang" Jacob wrote in message
...
I had an absolutely smooth install of SP2. I disabled my AV (Norton AV
2004)
and things went off just great. The only "problem" I had was Norton
complaining about its status being checked by other programs. A simple
check
box took care of that though. Love SP2. Great job MS.

I have just finished reading many of the replies to this message, and I
must say: Wow! There are alot of "developers" out there having problems,
and flying off the handle without being completely informed. I call them
"developers" only because they are using Visual Studio (and that's the only
reason). Like so many others out there, I have a pretty heavily loaded
development environment (including AV running) and I installed SP2 without
incident. Everything has worked wonderfully ever since and I'm fairly
impressed with the update. I hope that the ones having such difficulty with
the product will identify where the problems lie, and be able to remedy them
quickly, but I feel that it's a bit premature to place the blame for all
these problems on Microsoft's shoulders.

JRB


"Bassem Srouji" wrote in message
.. .
I had my part of problem installing SP2
everything go streight forward and my computer was up and running after
installing SP2 and then
I realise that my second hard drive is no longer seen by windows so I had
my
C drive which was ok, but my H Drive which is my second hard drive on the
computer was listed in my computer but every time I try to access it it
say
can not find path ...

I had to remove SP2 and then everything came back to normal

Bassem

"Steve" wrote in message
...
I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with
windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as
generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the
dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible
from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random
port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside
the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently"
firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of
this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've
uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again.
DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you
do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!!

STEVE!

JRB wrote:

I have just finished reading many of the replies to this message, and I
must say: Wow! There are alot of "developers" out there having problems,
and flying off the handle without being completely informed. I call them
"developers" only because they are using Visual Studio (and that's the only
reason). Like so many others out there, I have a pretty heavily loaded
development environment (including AV running) and I installed SP2 without
incident. Everything has worked wonderfully ever since and I'm fairly
impressed with the update. I hope that the ones having such difficulty with
the product will identify where the problems lie, and be able to remedy them
quickly, but I feel that it's a bit premature to place the blame for all
these problems on Microsoft's shoulders.

I suspect your sample of one is at least as biased an estimator of the
true fraction of problems as the sampling obtained by reading this
thread...

If people are so worried about security, they shouldn't be using windows in
the first place... Even point and click too hard for you, consider buying a
type writer.

Well, I am sure there are others that experience problems with SP2. I agree
with others that Steve came down from the hill a little strong on the other
hand I did experience a weird problem in IE after installing SP2m not on all
machines but still.

Even if popup blocker is turned off, IE still seems to put its digital
fingers on it but allowing the new window to open but then the pages seems to
hang. When I press the stop button followed by the Go button the requested
page comes up just fine.

I haven't had a chance to research it further but if there are others that
know of this problem and have a solution, please let me know.

Thanks,

Wayne,

If you have a software problem, take a deep breath, a warm shower, a nice
cup-a-coffee then just solve it!

"Steve" wrote:

I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with
windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as
generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the
dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible
from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random
port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside
the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently"
firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of
this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've
uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again.
DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you
do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!!

STEVE!

Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should boycot SP2 ..
it sux
SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at home. It
took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was Microsoft
Thinking

"Steve" wrote:

I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with
windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as
generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the
dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible
from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random
port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside
the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently"
firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of
this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've
uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again.
DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you
do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!!

STEVE!

"What the heck was Microsoft Thinking"
Easy, security.
Learn how to use it properly instead of simply discarding security so
quickly.

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


"Marc" wrote in message
...
Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should
boycot SP2 ..
it sux
SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at
home. It
took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was
Microsoft
Thinking

Microsoft should have labled it SP2 Beta.

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:

"What the heck was Microsoft Thinking"
Easy, security.
Learn how to use it properly instead of simply discarding security so
quickly.

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


"Marc" wrote in message
...
Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should
boycot SP2 ..
it sux
SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at
home. It
took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was
Microsoft
Thinking

The popup blocker in SP2 is driving me crazy. Its a total pain when tring to
develop and run web apps in whideby. I can completely turn off popup blocking
and when running an website in whideby's new virtual iis it just blocks all
popups anyway. Does anyone have any ideas?? I think I am going to get rid of
SP2.



"Steve" wrote:

I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with
windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as
generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the
dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible
from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random
port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside
the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently"
firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of
this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've
uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again.
DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you
do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!!

STEVE!

You can go to internet options...advanced tab and check allow active
content to run in My Computer.

"CODER" wrote in message
...
The popup blocker in SP2 is driving me crazy. Its a total pain when
tring to
develop and run web apps in whideby. I can completely turn off popup
blocking
and when running an website in whideby's new virtual iis it just
blocks all
popups anyway. Does anyone have any ideas?? I think I am going to
get rid of
SP2.



"Steve" wrote:

I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system
before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I
had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with
windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it
as
generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling
the
dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be
accessible
from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a
random
port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from
outside
the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL
"silently"
firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL
of
this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try
browsing a
site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the
page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've
uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE
again.
DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all
you
do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!!

STEVE!

I love Zonealarm. I did all theese online open port scans and didnt miss
one. all in green. i´d liked to see the zonealarm engine implemented
into XP. that would fit my imagination. this Sp2 firewall is nice for
non techies also, and if iam right, its asking for outbound traffic.
like.. is this program allowed to call out. but the settings are much
harder to find and also hard to configure. I would like some kind of
option to switch tech to nontechie. like zonealarm always did.
I also not think that it is a clever move to blame a software product
from a company thats only focusing on doing their Firewall secure for
not doing their job right.
If i would give a tipp. Turn off the SP2 firewall and install
zonealarm. Its really worth the money. If you think its to complex than
turn sp2 firewall back on. Its jsut shareware. so try it. you always
have the feeling to know whats going on, and what program is currently
"using" the internet. dont see that in Sp2. And to implement an
Antivirus Status window inside the SP2 without even consultate the
former AV companies for getting an SP2 plugin is the funniest idea
ever. Is it MS´s job to hold the program running after the update they
made ? or is it the company´s job to change their product for any
change MS is doing to their OS ? what comes first.. the egg ?



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Plato wrote:
*Steve wrote:

I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system
before
I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I
had
McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with

Well, it seems like you just dont know how to upgrade an OS. *

well i know how to do it and have seen many pcs with nothing but
problems since installing it, along with MANY other techs. Have had
computers blue screen, constant freezing of the screen, and many
programs that no longer work..yet some (not many) it goes no problem.
dont tell steve hes full of s**t unless youve seen his "bad install"
and tell the million other people having problems with it including pc
shops that they know nothing too



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Steve wrote in message ...

-snip-

Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh -snip- ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and -snip- knows what else.

-snip-

I read through this thread and didn't see any more information about
this. I, too, am having problems with needing to refresh at least
twice (zero was the norm before) to see updated pages on a Website
that I maintain using FrontPage on a Microsoft bCentral host account.
I do not know if this is an issue on other sites since this is the
only one I maintain (www.texaschess.org). Is it possible the fact
this URL is being redirected by NameSecure to the 'real' site part of
the issue?

Any ideas what may be causing this would be greatly appreciated
please.

Best regards,

George

Checked out the link you included and it takes me:
http://www.georgejohn.bcentralhost.com/tca/index.htm which seems correct.
Not seeing a problem with this system running XP Pro SP2.

FWIW, Len

"George C. John" wrote in message
om...
Steve wrote in message
...

-snip-

Every time I try browsing a
site, I have to refresh -snip- ten times to get it to display the page.
Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your
connection" error and -snip- knows what else.

-snip-

I read through this thread and didn't see any more information about
this. I, too, am having problems with needing to refresh at least
twice (zero was the norm before) to see updated pages on a Website
that I maintain using FrontPage on a Microsoft bCentral host account.
I do not know if this is an issue on other sites since this is the
only one I maintain (www.texaschess.org). Is it possible the fact
this URL is being redirected by NameSecure to the 'real' site part of
the issue?

Any ideas what may be causing this would be greatly appreciated
please.

Best regards,

George