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Posted by Lance on 04/02/06 15:37
I participated in testing the "prerelease" version of SP2 and then went
out and installed the final release of SP2 on about 25 computers without
any problems whatsoever.
The people in our test group with the most problems where those that had
remnants of viruses, adware or spyware on their computers. Their copy
WinXP was broken to begin with so installing SP2 on top of a broken copy
of Windows just messed thing up even further.
I do recall that people running Alcohol 120% (or other CD/DVD emulation
software) did have problems. The fix was to uninstall it before
installing SP2, then reinstall afterwards.
If your computer is clean and otherwise updated and you do your homework
you will not have a problem:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx
For security related updates like SP2 Microsoft offers free phone
support. You have to dig for it, but the link above will eventually lead
you to their phone number.
Lance
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Brendan R. Wehrung thought carefully and wrote on 4/1/2006 9:43 PM:
> I've been afraid of what SP2 might do to my installed DVD-burning software.
> I can't do anything about DVD X Copy, but I was thinking of unistalling
> I Copy DVD2 and 123 Copy DVD, and reinstalling after the update. What of
> DVD Shrink 3.2, Dycrypter, Fab Decrypter and IMG Burn? Not to mention DVD
> Identfies, Record Now!, CD Identifier, WinOnCD5, NTI CD Maker and EAC.
>
> SP2 is a once-in a lifetime event, after which nothing is the same or can
> be changed, or so I'm told, and I've been worried into inaction so far.
>
> Brendan
>
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