Been running it for about a week on my laptop. Aside from having to disable the firewall (which I’ve set up in our domain to do automatically now), I’ve had no problems at all. We’ll be doing some larger-scale tests in the office in the next week or so.
I enabled windows update, but I never got the SP2 download. Some investigation showed a couple of download folders on my drive with partial downloads. Something was failing with the auto-update process.
So I went directly to the SP2 site and downloaded the full install (“For IT Professionals”), and installed that from my hard drive. Worked perfectly, and SP2 has been running like a top since I did it a week ago. I even like the way the firewall works.
But the auto-update mechanism seems to be broken.
Installed SP2 about a week ago. Haven’t had a single problem. The only difference I notice is the red shield on the lower right side of the screen and a lack of “pop-bubbles” I’m used to seeing when PopSubtract was doing it’s thing.
real smooth. Download was automatic and absolutely no problems after the install.
My download of SP2 was interrupted because my PC locked up, and when it came back it thought the download was done, when it was in fact not, and installed it.
Result: Windows became unbootable, and I had to reformat and reinstall. Fortunately, I have Linux disk I could boot from, and read the Windows disk and burn data to CDs, so I didn’t lose anything. And, I was thinking of reformatting/reinstalling anyway to improve my PC’s performance.
The strange thing is that after I remade my Windows and redownloaded the update, it seemed to do a check if it was down and complete. I managed to get around that check, I guess.
Sam Stone, I was just going to ask if this happened to anyone. I told two home systems to download the update about 2 weeks ago. I’m still waiting to see it. :dubious:
I guess I need to go download it the old fashioned way. You wouldn’t happen to have a link to the page where you got it, would you?
Sure. Here you go: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx
The link you want is “Download and install SP2 on multiple computers”. Just click on it and when the file download pops up either save it to your machine or just click ‘open’.
Microsoft doesn’t want individuals downloading this, probably because it’s much bigger than the auto-update version. I say, screw 'em.
If your update failed, check the root of your C drive to see if you’ve got some partial downloads there. They’ll be in folders with GUIDs as names.