By Jo Best
Published: Monday 16 August 2004
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Name
Mik F
Location
Leeds, UK
Occupation
IT Consultant (Web)
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The ultimate 'Emporers New Clothes' patch?
I've installed on four machines, only one of which is working without any apparent conflicts.
Two dev machines are running both SQL Server and MS VS.Net both affected by the stuff MS is admitting to.
My machine at home has fared the worst though; no Dr DivX or Alcohol 120%, conflicts with Norton AntiVirus 2003 and the new Security Centre, administrator accounts damaged to the extent that folder properties and mmc apps like IIS are inaccesible, System Restore fails and I'm so unconvinced that uninstalling SP2 will resolve anything that I'm hiving off all my data onto DVDs beore performing a low level disc format and installing from scratch. Need less to say I'll be disabling auto-update and waiting for things to stabilise befor commiting again. What a crock....
The title of this article is both inaccurate and i...
Steve Anderson
The ultimate 'Emporers New Clothes' patch?
I've i...
Mik F
Why are we not surprised?
Rick Fuggle
Whatever happened to testing? Shouldn't we expect ...
R Halpert
'Issues' well what are they?
Of course there ar...
S Hallows
Having read the Microsoft bulletin (which I guess ...
Anonymous
I expect better from silicon.com; cheap sensationa...
Darral Pullen
i can understand some peoples problems with xp2. i...
royston
Steve Anderson: What is the point of deploying Fir...
Tom Anderson
I have loaded sp2 on 5 separate machines without p...
Neil the Wheel
i've had mine updated to xp2
and still having no ...
amgafur
Why cant we all just move to linux. Or Macs or uni...
Anonymous
I installed SP2, and even when I followed the dire...
Josh B
Is it not interesting that most MS system programm...
John Bramble
Having recently installed SP2 I wasn't unduly surp...
Anonymous
I've installed SP2 and other than Skype going a bi...
Ruprecht
Tom Anderson: That's the point of firewalls, reduc...
Jonathan English
Wrong Steve, it's neither inaccurate nor inflammat...
Bill Mercer
Since installing SP2 I can't use my printer. Canon...
Anonymous
Pointless waste of cyberspace. Uninformative and u...
Philip Pinkerton
It appears to me it would be better for everyone, ...
Anonymous
As two space shuttles have been lost etc.etc. - it...
Charles Willcock
I've been running smooth and sweet with SP2, until...
David Hoyle
I have not installed SP2 for fear of conflict with...
William M. Boylan
I have not installed SP2 for fear of conflict with...
William M. Boylan
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