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  #61  
Old September 9th 04, 04:26 PM
George C. John
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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
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  #62  
Old September 9th 04, 05:59 PM
Len
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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



  #63  
Old September 9th 04, 06:51 PM
Barns
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

My installation of SP2 was smooth and efficient. The only problem that I had
was that a program of mine which previously worked fine no longer ran. (I
encounted the same problem, with the same program, when trying to run it on
Longhorn).

Other than that I was completly satisfied, I'm currently using Server 2K3 on
my desktop (for development reasons) and am sorly missing the new version of
Internet Explorer. Any ideas if it'll be available for other MS OS's?

Steve, I don't disagree that different people have differing experiances
with the same software. I Have enough trouble trying to satisfy clients with
my software. I feel that you may have been placing too emphasis on your anger
than the real issue.

"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!


  #64  
Old September 10th 04, 03:37 AM
Reddragon
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

I installed SP2 early this september and have no problems... I am running XP
pro on an compaq presarion laptop amd athlon 1800. I run Visual Studio.NET
and SQLServer 2000 amoung other things and have not had any issues at all...

(knock on wood)

"memawof4" wrote:

I am not a techie and as my sign in says I am a memaw of 4. I recieved SP2
through the AU and I did not get any message that said "read before
committing suicide" I had alot of problems but thank God my son is a techie
and helped me through them. He said he would not download SP2 untill they
have worked the bugs out. I disabled the firewall and messenger and tweaked
some things and solved me email delimma and now we are working fine ( my
fingers are crossed) Point here is I agree with Alias. Not all of us want to
spend our time "fixing" problems. MS should have sent instructions to us
"dummies" before just sending SP2 through the update! We can not all be as
smart as some of you claim to be.

"Bassem Srouji" wrote:

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!




  #65  
Old September 10th 04, 05:17 AM
George C. John
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

"Len" wrote in message ...

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


-snip-

Len,

Thanks for checking. However, since you didn't have prior pages
already, there isn't any way you could know (right?) if there is a
problem with seeing updating pages (sorry if I was unclear).

The issue is after I update page, I see the old page in IE unless I
refresh the page a couple times.

I just upgraded to SP2 at home, and don't see the problem. Maybe this
has something to do with the corporate firewall instead, but I have
not seen it prior to installing SP2. Could be a coincidence of
course.

Best regards,

George
  #66  
Old September 10th 04, 12:41 PM
Mike Hanson
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

The fact that you are using the MSDN Newsgroups instead of the public ones
suggests (to me anyway) that you (and others involved in this thread) are
regular MSDN visitors and probably developers at some level.

If this is so then you have no excuse for not knowing the potential issues
with SP2, since Microsoft and other independent contributors have been
publishing articles about it on the site for months.

If it is not so, why are you cluttering up this invaluable resource for
developers with complaints that don't belong here.

"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!


  #67  
Old September 10th 04, 01:25 PM
weaponx
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

Here here JRB.

This is correct. I'm a .NET developer and have had no problems with SP2,
following the instructions given.

I appreciate there may be errors with it somewhere on some configurations
but lets face it, using it as an excuse to have a go at microsoft.

Linux is just trying to copy windows, and yes people spend most of their
time adjusting settings with it.
  #68  
Old September 10th 04, 04:30 PM
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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Default SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!

Mike;
These are all public newsgroups.
The fact some may be managed by MSDN does not change that fact.

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


"Mike Hanson" wrote in message
...
The fact that you are using the MSDN Newsgroups instead of the
public ones
suggests (to me anyway) that you (and others involved in this
thread) are
regular MSDN visitors and probably developers at some level.

If this is so then you have no excuse for not knowing the potential
issues
with SP2, since Microsoft and other independent contributors have
been
publishing articles about it on the site for months.

If it is not so, why are you cluttering up this invaluable resource
for
developers with complaints that don't belong here.

"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!




  #69  
Old September 13th 04, 12:51 PM
nollkoll
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i would say ott wording but valid compliant. i 2 had/have fw problems.
symantec fw/av running fine - no problam during or after install. and btw how
may articles and documents (some quite long and detailed) does one need to
read and fully understand before one applies a much needed SP2 ? but i now
have lost access to some of the free WLAN cafes i visit (stopped assigning
me the DNS - looks like I'm blocked but the connection is fine). however
because WLAN work fine at work and at airports i'm not sure. i know from
asking that the only thing that has changed is my install of sp2, but as it
works most of the time, difficult to tell...

"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!


  #70  
Old September 14th 04, 03:31 PM
Dan
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one PC I had the same problem, IE works intermittently out and Outlook is
have comm problems too , the my other PC seems to be fine, but it was a fresh
install and not an upgrade. Beats me what is wrong with the first one, I told
the stupid security thing to let me handle the firewall. Seems to be a
network related issue. One day when I get frustrated enough I'll fix 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!


  #71  
Old September 15th 04, 10:25 AM
london calling
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Probably a caching problem, either with IE or a gateway somewhere between you
and the live server...
Set IE to check for new versions "every visit to the page" (internet options
- temporary intenet files - settings)... Note this will not help if it is
being cached elsewhere.... in which case you can add content expiration
headers to your html...

jd

set your browser to always
"George C. John" wrote:

"Len" wrote in message ...

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


-snip-

Len,

Thanks for checking. However, since you didn't have prior pages
already, there isn't any way you could know (right?) if there is a
problem with seeing updating pages (sorry if I was unclear).

The issue is after I update page, I see the old page in IE unless I
refresh the page a couple times.

I just upgraded to SP2 at home, and don't see the problem. Maybe this
has something to do with the corporate firewall instead, but I have
not seen it prior to installing SP2. Could be a coincidence of
course.

Best regards,

George

  #72  
Old September 18th 04, 03:05 AM
Wen Jia
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Yep I agree. SP2 really makes your computer slow. The firewall automatically
turns on every time you turn on your computer.
  #73  
Old September 18th 04, 03:09 AM
PA Bear
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Bet your Kazaa doesn't work either! bwaa-ha-ha

Wen Jia wrote:
Yep I agree. SP2 really makes your computer slow. The firewall
automatically
turns on every time you turn on your computer.


  #74  
Old September 18th 04, 03:14 AM
Rock
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Wen Jia wrote:

Yep I agree. SP2 really makes your computer slow. The firewall automatically
turns on every time you turn on your computer.


Turn off firewall in network properties or in services if you don't want
it. Defrag. Reboot at least 3-4 times over a weeks time. Boot
prefetch takes that many reboots to kick in. The in built optimization
runs every three days. It takes time for the prefetch folder to be
rebuilt. Defrag again. If things are still running slow try some clean
boot troubleshooting to see if any startup apps are causing problems.
They might need to be uninstalled / reinstalled.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

  #75  
Old September 18th 04, 03:19 AM
Wen Jia
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It's just stupid. SP2 really is a Beta version
 




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