Windows XP Service Pack 2 Technical Preview

[enigma-penguin Veteran]

managed to get it all in one go. not bad for 56k...

norton wont tell its status but im sure that'll be fixed come final...and that uxtheme patch took a few goes to get working

other than that.. seems faster than b4

^_^ i like

[[bear]]

I just noticed that mine says "Windows XP Media Center Edition" as well, and I'm running XP Home :huh:

Huh I dual boot with mandrake and the mandrake boot loader lists it as Windows XP Tablet PC editon.. :no: Im using XP home.. so strange...

[Ryan V]

For anyone who needs a copy here it is :)

Vortex's UxTheme Patch

[freakyfriday]

I get nuthin but jibberish at Vortex's link (see attched screen cap). Can anyone please help me!!!!

that's a bug in SP2, you have to right click it and save it.

[oldaccount1]

When does XPSP2 go gold?

[-=SD=-]

Just wondering for those that installed it, did you have to reconfigure your settings for sharing a printer?

Also how well does the IE popup blocker work..?

[LaDyBoO]

does anyone know how to remove the tekst evolution copybuild 2600 xpsp2.rc1 from the dekstop, some how the old reg remove dont seems to work for this build

[CoLdFuSi0n]

for anyone that wants a autopatcher for uxtheme.dll here yea go

http://downloads.timeforanap.com/patchxpsp...tas-LT_Hawk.rar

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

i just used replacer to replace the sysdm.cpl and uxthemedll :p

oh and stable as rock so far, firefox crashes but thats understandable, ff is not final yet so ive uninstalled it and am using IE again :) - may try mozilla 1.6 as thats better compatible

[enigma-penguin Veteran]

no problems with firefox here..well except the usual

hopefully i wont see those crashes

[[bear]]

Just wondering for those that installed it, did you have to reconfigure your settings for sharing a printer?

Also how well does the IE popup blocker work..?

the popup blocker works pretty well. shows a small notification when a popup is blocked and lets you configure your options for which sites are safe and which ones aren't for popups.

[-=SD=-]

Thanks for that, good to know :)

[LaDyBoO]

come on guys , .....does anyone know how to remove the tekst evolution copybuild 2600 xpsp2.rc1 from the dekstop, somehow the old regto remove the desktop version dont seem to work for this build, anyone know hoe to remove this

[Tews]

I wouldnt be too concerned about that... Yer going to be downloading the Final version before too long anyway ;)

[Nathanael]

come on guys , .....does anyone know how to remove the tekst evolution copybuild 2600 xpsp2.rc1 from the dekstop, somehow the old regto remove the desktop version dont seem to work for this build, anyone know hoe to remove this

I don't have that text, is the WinBeta release any different than the public one?

[Jelly2003]

managed to get it all in one go. not bad for 56k...

norton wont tell its status but im sure that'll be fixed come final...and that uxtheme patch took a few goes to get working

other than that.. seems faster than b4

^_^ i like

SEE?!?!? Why does it download perfect for you over 56K (in one go i mgiht add) it wont download for me, and I'm on 512k ADSL??

Perhaps I should take these 7 attempts as a bad omen and just give up.

This is a joke, seriously, how the heck does it stop at say 92%, it wont resume, yet I am fully able to start a completely new download (which will also stop at between 50% - 92%).

[416_guy]

the 100% CPU usage bug is still here in SP2 v2096

when you right click on an icon in my computer while having the fading option enabled, your CPU will be kept at 100% in use

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

the 100% CPU usage bug is still here in SP2 v2096

when you right click on an icon in my computer while having the fading option enabled, your CPU will be kept at 100% in use

this was solved ages ago, simply turn off some visual options like animations and things

[[bear]]

yep the fade in fade out menus are completly worthless anyways.. you can keep the shadows and stuff.

[Jelly2003]

BAH! Just failed again at 86% with IE, thats it I give up. I can't believe this.

* pulls out hair *

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

i used firefox to download it 2nd time round

[[bear]]

yeah i downloaded it twice for my other computer just to test it out

Using: Flashget

why would you download with IE you know thats not resumable... lol

[416_guy]

this was solved ages ago, simply turn off some visual options like animations and things

yeah that's why i said when the fading option is ON...i would of thought that they would of fixed this by now in this service pack...

[Jelly2003]

,Mar 22 2004, 10:06] yeah i downloaded it twice for my other computer just to test it out

Using: Flashget

why would you download with IE you know thats not resumable... lol

I've tried it 3 times on GetRight, twice using Firebird, and twice using FlashGet... thats why!

So... IE was my last hope in getting this download to work.

Actually I'm on the phone to my ISP now, they're having similar problems downloading it, so it might be a problem with my ISP. The download started at 2MB per sec, and is slowly dropping down below 300kb/sec on their connection.

They're gonna ring me back shortly to tell me how the download went.

[wjbomatt]

Just installed RC1...so far...so good. One question, however. My Cisco VPN won't work.....tells me that "Internet Connection Sharing must be uninstalled in Windows XP". How??? Please. :crazy: