updates to install until sp2 cd available

[Nik Blackwell]

BSOD's pretty much became a thing of the past for most of us with the
release of Windows XP, and although I have had some since ungrading they are
infrequent and to the best of my knowledge never due to Microsoft.
Oftentimes they _are_ because of badly coded third-party software or
hardware problems. Anyway Paul this disagreement is just going to roll on
and on. Best not to repeatedly respond to people who fail to substantiate
claims and can't even abbreviate the word anonymous.

Nik

 

[Morty McSnerd]

BSOD's pretty much became a thing of the past for most of us with the
release of Windows XP, and although I have had some since ungrading they are
infrequent and to the best of my knowledge never due to Microsoft.
Oftentimes they _are_ because of badly coded third-party software or
hardware problems. Anyway Paul this disagreement is just going to roll on
and on. Best not to repeatedly respond to people who fail to substantiate
claims and can't even abbreviate the word anonymous.

I've been running Windows NT (XP is NT version 6.0) since the version 3.1
pre-release (1993 or so), and to you I say what a load of horse hockey.

NT is a protected operating system. One of the great things about a
protected operating system is that it protects itself from 3rd party stupid
programmers tricks. Windows 3.x and Windows 9x were not protected OS, and
what you say is very true of them. NT 3.1 was near bullet proof, but NT has
been getting worse and worse as is becomes so complex with a gazillion
"features". XP SP1 was an improvement over Windows 2000, but it looks to me
like Service Pack II is a bug filled disaster.

 

[Nik Blackwell]

Check your version number! Windows XP _is_ version 5.1, call up the System
properties page or type "ver" at the command prompt.
I've been running SP2 for weeks now without a hitch. Sure if people use
Automatic/Windows Update for SP2 they might well have problems, but many of
them might have been there in the first instance. Many companies are
treating SP2 almost as a full OS upgrade, which is a bit of an overreaction.
But when you consider, that SP1 was mainly a bunch of fixes, and stock
programs such as DirectX, Windows Media Player, etc., weren't changed,
you've really got to see that the first release of XP and SP2 are almost as
different as XP was to 2000. So what is essentially not that different from
installing a new OS _over_ an old one, which is always problematic, is
always going to cause more headache than when you perform a clean install.

Nik

 

[AnnonUser]

BSOD's pretty much became a thing of the past for most of us with the
release of Windows XP, and although I have had some since ungrading they are
infrequent and to the best of my knowledge never due to Microsoft.
Oftentimes they _are_ because of badly coded third-party software or
hardware problems. Anyway Paul this disagreement is just going to roll on
and on. Best not to repeatedly respond to people who fail to substantiate
claims and can't even abbreviate the word anonymous.

Nik

I did that, you moron, so I can easily search for my posts.

 

[Nik Blackwell]

Don't call me a moron you fool! How is it moronic to not know that you're
hiding behind a misspelt abbreviation for a reason? On what undisputable
evidence was I to base that judgement? Why not use a name (real or
otherwise) like most of the other posters here, who aren't using Microsoft's
own site, to post messages.

Nik