Why is SP2 so big? It doesn't do much

[Harry]

Let me get this straight . . . you would advise someone to fix a perfectly
good computer because you imagine that something bad might happen sometime
in the future? I've got news for you. If your computer is going to be hit
with a minor inconvenience, that's just as likely to happen whether SP2 is
installed or not.

Utter rubbish! If Microsoft have identified numerous bugs and fixed
them in SP2, you wont have a chance of coming across one if you
install SP2. Indeed, not installing SP2 will leave you open to the
possibility of meeting any of the identified bugs (fixed in SP2) and
any future bugs that have yet to show themselves.

Or were you under the mistaken impression that SP2 alone
could magically cure all possible computer ills? To me, this SP2 looks like
a cure that is much worse than the supposed disease. People who've
installed it successfully report numerous new problems. Not as severe as
what I've experienced (and I'm not alone, according to other readers of the
ng and even MICROSOFT), but when you start with a computer system that works
well, any new problem is a PITA. You'll really feel like shit when you
realize that the SP2 problems you encounter were problems you didn't need to
deal with.

Whilst I agree that their are issues with SP2 they tend to be
compatibility issues and not out and out bugs. Most key software
vendors have released updates to their software that solve any issues.
I would rather meet a minor compatibility issue rather than a known
hard disk data corruption bug any day.

Note that many people have installed SP2 and report no new
problems with it, and that's great. But when your computer is working great
to begin with, you are going to break even, AT BEST.

Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of SP2. My honest opinion of it is
that it's just not ready for public release yet, though. I'll upgrade my
own machines to SP2, but not right now. I'll wait several months for
Mickeysoft to try to get some more of the bugs worked out of *SP2*,
irst. -Dave

Fine you do that. Like I say, the bugs are known about and are there
waiting for you to stumble on. SP2 will correct the bugs, but
obviously you know best.

 

[JAD]

dave likes to talk....allot then he forgets that its his ' opinion '
he is spouting

 

[Judas]

dave likes to talk....allot

al·lot 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion. 2. To assign as a portion;
allocate.

Perchance you mean "a lot" ?

 

[Dave C.]

Well, let's not get carried away here. Someone not installing SP2 is in no
worse shape than they were a month ago.

Thank You! -Dave

 

[Alias]

LOL!

Alias

Thank You! -Dave

 

[Aquila Deus]

I've tried a few of the other browsers, but I have found them to be buggy as hell, and
with "features" that I consider absolute rubbish (like tabbed browsing).

Try GreenBrowser. It has tabbed-browsing, and the prevention of
duplicated web-pages, and popup-block and ad-filter.

While there
are a couple of things that I find annoying with IE, as far as I am concerned it's
still far and away the best product out there.

Then you need my css file to speed up IE, especially if you use
ClearType

search for "Speed Up IE!" in alt.os.windows-xp, by d2004xx

 

[Jon Danniken]

Try GreenBrowser. It has tabbed-browsing, and the prevention of
duplicated web-pages, and popup-block and ad-filter.

I don't use "tabbed browsing", and my hosts file gets rid of about every ad; Zone
Alarm (that I need anyway) takes care of popups.

Then you need my css file to speed up IE, especially if you use
ClearType

search for "Speed Up IE!" in alt.os.windows-xp, by d2004xx

I don't find IE to be too slow, but I will look into "Speed Up IE!" anyway just for
the halibut; thanks for the tip.

Jon

 

[Aquila Deus]

I don't use "tabbed browsing", and my hosts file gets rid of about every ad; Zone
Alarm (that I need anyway) takes care of popups.

I use host file too But ad-filter lets you use wildcard like http://*/ads/*.

I don't find IE to be too slow, but I will look into "Speed Up IE!" anyway just for
the halibut; thanks for the tip.

PS: The tip enables offscreen rendering in IE

 

[Jon Danniken]

PS: The tip enables offscreen rendering in IE

I've heard of this in 3D apps, but how would it apply to a browser window?

Jon

 

[Iwa-amun-panetjer IV]

Aquila Deus, the murmuring, high-strung fellator, and contractor of laborers
at cheap rate of pay, ejaculated:

PS: The tip

... whispered the leper to the prostitute.

 

[Aquila Deus]

I've heard of this in 3D apps, but how would it apply to a browser window?

M$'s "filter" CSS property enables this and DirectDraw in IE to do
special effects like transparency. It makes IE faster than opera and
mozilla

 

[toad]

So would Windows if it included all the additional tools, utilities
compilers etc that the Linux distros include.

I know - I was just wondering why the original poster was so worried
about 200MB...

Toad

 

[private]

Its designed to stuff up peoples computers and keep repair men in a
job............

OR,this is just a vicious rumor,started by
millions of unhappy users................