Small question re SP2

[Rhino]

I finally got around to installing SP2 the other day. Everything went fine
but I noticed one odd thing: when I boot up, the Windows logo that I see
before I get to select my user accounts used to say "Windows XP
Professional" but not it just says "Windows XP".

When I look at Control Panel/System/General, it assures me that I have
Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 so I'm reasonably
confident that SP2 is indeed correctly installed.

So why did the word "Professional" get deleted from the logo? It would seem
like a small enough token of acknowledgement that I spent several extra
dollars to get the Pro version of Windows....

 

[R. McCarty]

It was done to make the building of code simpler, so that the different
flavors of XP/Media Center do not require it's own Splash screen.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Yes, that is normal. The splash screen is generic after installing SP2.

The splash screen that appears at startup does not display the complete
Windows XP version information
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;886930

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I finally got around to installing SP2 the other day. Everything went fine
| but I noticed one odd thing: when I boot up, the Windows logo that I see
| before I get to select my user accounts used to say "Windows XP
| Professional" but not it just says "Windows XP".
|
| When I look at Control Panel/System/General, it assures me that I have
| Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 so I'm reasonably
| confident that SP2 is indeed correctly installed.
|
| So why did the word "Professional" get deleted from the logo? It would seem
| like a small enough token of acknowledgement that I spent several extra
| dollars to get the Pro version of Windows....
|
| --
| Rhino

 

[Don Taylor]

It was done to make the building of code simpler, so that the different
flavors of XP/Media Center do not require it's own Splash screen.

They "rewrote five million lines of code" and one splash screen makes
0.00000000001% difference in that?!?!?

That seems humorous, to wildly understate it.

 

[Steve N.]

It was done to make the building of code simpler, so that the different
flavors of XP/Media Center do not require it's own Splash screen.

No offense but that seems like a pretty lame reason to me. Why replace
the splash screen at all? Are the M$ coders really that incompetent?
What the hell does the splash screen have to do with OS enhancements and
security fixes? It's just a damn picture.

Steve

 

[Ron Martell]

They "rewrote five million lines of code" and one splash screen makes
0.00000000001% difference in that?!?!?

That seems humorous, to wildly understate it.

If they hadn't made that change in the Splash Screen then they would
have had to create (and maintain) four separate versions of Service
Pack 2 - for Home, Pro, Tablet, and Media Center editions.

Switching to a generic splash screen allowed them to have just one
version of SP2.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[Don Taylor]

If they hadn't made that change in the Splash Screen then they would
have had to create (and maintain) four separate versions of Service
Pack 2 - for Home, Pro, Tablet, and Media Center editions.

Switching to a generic splash screen allowed them to have just one
version of SP2.

And this would have made how much difference in a 270,000,000 byte
SP2, that already had literally thousands of special cases for
hardware found in your setup and not in the next one you updated?

You already said they had to customize this for Home, Pro, Tablet
and Media center with thousands of required differences.

If you are trying to argue for Microsoft making changes for simplicity
and small applications without boatloads of useless fru-fru you are
going to have to come up with something a lot better than this.

 

[Bob I]

Yep, damned if they do and damned if they don't!

And this would have made how much difference in a 270,000,000 byte
SP2, that already had literally thousands of special cases for
hardware found in your setup and not in the next one you updated?

You already said they had to customize this for Home, Pro, Tablet
and Media center with thousands of required differences.

If you are trying to argue for Microsoft making changes for simplicity
and small applications without boatloads of useless fru-fru you are
going to have to come up with something a lot better than this.

 

[Steve N.]

And this would have made how much difference in a 270,000,000 byte
SP2, that already had literally thousands of special cases for
hardware found in your setup and not in the next one you updated?

You already said they had to customize this for Home, Pro, Tablet
and Media center with thousands of required differences.

If you are trying to argue for Microsoft making changes for simplicity
and small applications without boatloads of useless fru-fru you are
going to have to come up with something a lot better than this.

Like I said in another thread on the same subject, it's just a frikkin
picture with an animated "progress" bar, for Pete's sake! Wouldn't it
have been much simpler to just leave the stupid thing alone? What
security or OS enhancements does it harbor? I don't buy this either,
there's gotta be something else behind it.

I've got an old Etch-A-Sketch that I want a Microsoft Windows XP Toddler
Edition splash screen for, too.

Steve