aam Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 What to do? Download SP2 now or wait till there is better news. So many pros yet so many cons at the same time. What to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazord Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I say now I have not had any problems with it but others could it all depends on configuration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadaaron Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 no problems here either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted August 26, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 26, 2004 Do a clean install and you'll face virtuall no problems. Upgrades can make current issues more predominant, and they can become quite annoying. SP2 itself doesn't really bring up any new problems, but anything that's not working with your system now will likely cause problems with all the new security in SP2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjgore Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 No problems here either. I'm using a freshly-installed slipstreamed version. Solid as a rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayjin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 ya.. install now but do a clean install. you will avoid lots of headaches if things do go wrong. I havent had any problems with my desktop, laptop and virtual pc install which all were slipstreamed SP2s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctebah Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 hey, I have my windows xp sp1 cd and downloaded version of the sp2, can I still slipstream them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisetteum Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I am facing uninstall problems: If i try to uninstall anything it hangs and I am not able to complete the install. I end up having to reinstall software and am never able to uninstall. I am upgraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 No problems here either. I'm using a freshly-installed slipstreamed version. Solid as a rock. Exactly :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mizuian Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I'm not using a fresh installation and it works fine with me - just download it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayjin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 hey, I have my windows xp sp1 cd and downloaded version of the sp2, can I still slipstream them? yes! i've done it with original xp cd and sp1 cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 No Sp2 probs here either. I did have them intially, but that was due to uxtheme / tcpip.sys etc (i tried patching both and I (more than likely doing something wrong) messed things up a bit, so i rolled back to Sp1, defragged / reg cleaned / cleaned up orphan files < in reverse order :p , reinstalled Sp2 (remember, this wasnt a clean install, i still had all my programs on the comp etc and i dont have partitions) and all works perfectly well now (i don't even seem to have the tcpip.sys problem and that's me unpatched.) So the moral of this is, don't **** about, just do things by the book and all will be fine :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanChung Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I'm choosing to wait though I have ordered the CD from Microsoft for free :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aam Posted August 26, 2004 Author Share Posted August 26, 2004 well from the look of the responses it looks like a clean install/reformat is the way to go- then install SP2.. what a pain.. I would rather just install the service pack.. We'll see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 No "Don't bother with SP2 at all" option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazord Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I didnt do a clean install just and upgrade and everything still went fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 No "Don't bother with SP2 at all" option? Could have sworn I wrote "Where's the ... " in front of that sentence, odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavityCr33p Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 I have XP with sp2, and I need to reformat anyways, but I saw a page on MS site of apps that are known not to work with sp2. One of them being Yahoo messenger, which my wife uses dearly. Anybody have any luck with running yahoo on sp2? There was a ****load of applications and the problems that arose. Also, what are people doing about visual styles? Do we need a special uxtheme and special visual styles for sp2? One more question....What's a good Anti-virus to run with sp2? I read where most of them arent working or have problems now...I was gonna install kaspersky, but I saw that it was having problems also.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Also, what are people doing about visual styles? Do we need a special uxtheme and special visual styles for sp2? https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=140707 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0m8er Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Download and install it! :yes: I did it the day it appeared here on Neowin - didn't have a single problem since than - I installed it over my XP Home XP 1 and system performs better than before now - it's noticebly faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavityCr33p Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Anybody with the new yahoo messenger running on sp2 final? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yudi_lks Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Definitely should wait for it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive6 Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 why wait ? what are you waiting for the perfect OS patch lol not going to happen there will aways be holes and some programs will break but SP2 does far more good than it does bad so get off you butts and install already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 download now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yudi_lks Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 why wait ? what are you waiting for the perfect OS patch lol not going to happen there will aways be holes and some programs will break but SP2 does far more good than it does bad so get off you butts and install already. Better I stick my butt on SP1 for a while... I just don't want to get a blue screen next time I reboot my computer.. Heheheh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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