Posted by Brendan R. Wehrung on 04/03/06 04:31

Lance (lltbhill@link_earth.net) writes:
> Here's a very good checklist for pre-installation tasks:
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm
>
> Lance
> *****
>

Thanks (twice).

Brendan


> Lance thought carefully and wrote on 4/2/2006 8:37 AM:
>> 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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