Fdisk Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I agree with what others posted. Did a slipstream clean install last night and it's much faster. Any clean install will make it faster, but my previous install was only 6 months old and I regularly kept it well maintained. Boot times, everything faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasta Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 i just installed sp2 today and it deleted all my old messages in outlook express :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incubusdaemon Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 it's slow because it frags the bejebus out of the drive. Mine was 49% fragmented after I installed SP2 post defrag and bootvis'ing, I was actually booting faster than with Sp1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivers Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Cant connect to windows update (v5) since I updated. Followed all the lame rules it asks for.. auto updates etc etc.. Am getting: [Error number: 0x80072EFD] Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page. You may find the following resources helpful in resolving the problem: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathen Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah.... I'm not going to install SP2 until its available on Windows Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.MULLA Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 i installed sp2 over sp1 and done a format today with slipstream, both worked superbly, not a single problem. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotix Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I had every device driver and program backed up on CDRs from my SP1 install and after clean formatting and installing the slipstreamed SP2 and reinstalling every piece of software, my boot time is still easily noticeably faster. Other than that, I don't see any speed differences. No real other problems noticed in the past few days either yet. :whistle: :pc: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hills420 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 For some reason, my systray loads a lot slower in sp2 than sp1a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 i upgraded over sp1,boot time was similar to sp1. the only problem i had was with Drdivx. Other than that everythings fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phemo Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Well I'm really not too sure what to do with my system. Since installing SP2, my Firewire doesn't work anymore. My iPod makes the system reboot, and my Firewire HD gives an error in device manager. Still does the same thing after reinstalling from a slipstreamed CD. Nice one Microsoft. Does anyone have a VIA Firewire controller that works in SP2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 All my comps are now running SP2 without a single problem.. theyre alot faster now, boot time, responsiveness, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetRyder Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 i installed sp2 over sp1 and done a format today with slipstream, both worked superbly, not a single problem. :yes: Same here. The SP2 update has been a brilliant one for me. Not a single glitch, and the system reponse is noticeably faster. As was pointed out earlier in the thread, a lot of you may have forgotten to defrag after installing the service pack. It makes a huge difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker999 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah.... I'm not going to install SP2 until its available on Windows Update. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I installed SP2 on a clean install of windows and things are running noticably faster! I'd been waiting for this to come out so I could format and fix a few other problems. Now I just have to customize things a bit ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.fury Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Just did a clean install from slipstreamed CD. So far working fine (Y) apart from not being able to get into 85hz mode @ any resolution, but that was resolved by installing 56.56 FW's instead of 61.77. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 HAHA, my slipstream just recorded 700MB of nothing :$ help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srizo Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I installed SP2 on my desktop and my laptop. It seems to be working fine on my desktop, but it screwed up all of the wireless networking on my laptop. I couldn't connect to anything, and when I'd click "repair" it would lock up my system. I finally just uninstalled SP2 from my laptop. funny it works fine for me! ( i installed the beta one when i had wireless) and i did reformat my drive and installed XP agian because of some error(long story) and i just installed sp2 over the sp1 and it works FINE!!! hypoxiaicon: did you follow the guide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalslacker Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 i've had no problems at all and have even started rolling out the SP to some of our end users for a little more real world testing. all and all i'm pretty impressed at the lack of problems i'm seeing good job ms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan C Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Yeah.... I'm not going to install SP2 until its available on Windows Update. It just going to be the same thing, nothing will be changed, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[moribundi] Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 HAHA, my slipstream just recorded 700MB of nothing :$ help Did you do it manually and follow the extremely simple instructions posted all over Neowin, or did you use some lame hold-my-hand program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_te Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I did notice that startup was slower but only by about 5 seconds on my computer. But shutdown on the other hand is like 10 seconds slower than usual on my computer. I also booted into safe mode to check it out and since safe mode shows all the drivers being loaded, I noticed that it stalled on one of the drivers (forgot what name). But safe mode booted much slower than normal boot: by about 30 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ta Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 no probs here..maybe some incompatibility somewhere.. That's what I'd guess too. Quite weird, maybe it's time for him to do a clean install? So far I've installed XP SP2 on 6 computers including my home computers and I've got nothing to report but positive responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djweasel Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 ,Aug 10 2004, 23:59] That's what I'd guess too.Quite weird, maybe it's time for him to do a clean install? So far I've installed XP SP2 on 6 computers including my home computers and I've got nothing to report but positive responses. My computer runs fine right now.....its just that the whole update seems to be slow to go and takes forever to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Lamar Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 my slipstream would not boot. ntdlr can't load something like that, Ill attempt again later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[moribundi] Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Follow the instructions here. I have been using this guide and recommending this guide for as long as I can remember. Use the attached file for the bootsector portion needed to make the bootable cd. It's not that hard guys. Just take your time, read through it, and make sure you understand everything. xpboot.bin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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