SP2
Thursday, September 9, 2004 by Mitsubishiman | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Does anyone have any horror stories about updating to Service Pack 2 ?
kjay528
Reply #2 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:12 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:12 PM
DL 2 days ago every thing is runng as smooth as a baby's bottom 
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GhoS
Reply #3 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:22 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:22 PM
Have not had one single issue with using it after two weeks of use.
ama02
Reply #4 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:26 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:26 PM
I was just told by my ISO that SP2 Network version had almost no issues, and that I should consider using that version update, even though I'm not on a network.
blobbybluey
Reply #5 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:24 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:24 AM
ive had to do a full reboot with sp2 its affected at least four apps, especially cursor xp anyone else had any probs, ive ended up uninstalling sp2.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:45 AM
A full reboot huh. That must have been alot of work pushing that button once.
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:45 AM
| ive had to do a full reboot with sp2 its affected at least four apps |
A full reboot huh. That must have been alot of work pushing that button once.
Koasati
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:18 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:18 AM
| That must have been alot of work pushing that button once. |
Paul33
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:48 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:48 AM
I installed SP2 and it looks like all systems go for the time being.
Hope it stays that way...
Hope it stays that way...
BlueDev
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:29 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:29 AM
Installed the first day it was released via automatic updates (been a few weeks now) and haven't had any issues. No problems with programs, no issues at all.
Paradoxed
Reply #11 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:47 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:47 AM
I am informing all my customers that installing sp2 can make their system unstable and I am not recommending it at this time. I see a common demoninator being some spyware on the box that causes it to not boot afterwards or bluescreen on bootup. I usually do an sp2 uninstall from a cmd prompt and all is well. upon removing the spyware, sp2 installs with no problem.
I myself have not seen any issues with sp2
I myself have not seen any issues with sp2
Alternate Setting
Reply #12 Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:28 AM
Reply #12 Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:28 AM
I just bit the bullet and installed SP2. Seemed to have survived it - though early days - well hours 
.
Took the approach of unloading all graphic add-ons, WB, cursor XP, Icon packages etc before installing, together with replacing default bootscreen and logon.
Then on completion, just for neatness once I was satisfied all was up and running I cleared my prefetch files.
My system is a basic utility system with onboard graphics - but after this has settled in for a day or 2 I'll hit my Toshiba laptop with it as well.
.Took the approach of unloading all graphic add-ons, WB, cursor XP, Icon packages etc before installing, together with replacing default bootscreen and logon.
Then on completion, just for neatness once I was satisfied all was up and running I cleared my prefetch files.
My system is a basic utility system with onboard graphics - but after this has settled in for a day or 2 I'll hit my Toshiba laptop with it as well.
SelfExiled
Reply #14 Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:00 PM
Window\Prefetch directory, and erase the files.
Reply #14 Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:00 PM
| How does one clear the prefetch? |
Window\Prefetch directory, and erase the files.
Alternate Setting
Reply #15 Friday, September 24, 2004 4:56 AM
Reply #15 Friday, September 24, 2004 4:56 AM
Just updated Toshiba satellite laptop to SP2- same process and everything fine except m$ bootscreen flashing up before my own choice shows. Seem to remember there was a fix for this posted elsewhere on board.
If anyone cares to repost this gem of knowledge here it will be much appreciated.
If anyone cares to repost this gem of knowledge here it will be much appreciated.
Alternate Setting
Reply #16 Friday, September 24, 2004 8:05 AM
Reply #16 Friday, September 24, 2004 8:05 AM
Hopefully my final update on this, re above I did find the post that referred to adding a line to boot.ini files but luckily this wasn't necessary. A simple uninstall and re-installing of bootskin appears to have done the trick and now all is as it should be.
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Reply #1 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:04 PM