MUST KNOW!!!! WixXP Service pack 2

[Guest]

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service Pack
2. Unfortunately, Automatic Updates, which I have since switched to to
"Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them" has downloaded
Service Pack 2 and every tike I start my laptop, it pesters me about
installing Win Service Pack 2. How do I get automatic updates to delete what
it has downloaded and to QUIT PESTERING ME!!

Thanx in advance

 

[Liz]

Why were you told not to install it?

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You really should install SP2 for security purposes. Why did your friend
tell you that you should not install SP2?

 

[kurttrail]

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP
Service Pack
2. Unfortunately, Automatic Updates, which I have since switched to
to "Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them" has
downloaded Service Pack 2 and every tike I start my laptop, it
pesters me about installing Win Service Pack 2. How do I get
automatic updates to delete what it has downloaded and to QUIT
PESTERING ME!!

Thanx in advance

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[Jone Doe]

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry"

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service
Pack
2. Unfortunately, Automatic Updates, which I have since switched to to
"Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them" has
downloaded
Service Pack 2 and every tike I start my laptop, it pesters me about
installing Win Service Pack 2. How do I get automatic updates to delete
what
it has downloaded and to QUIT PESTERING ME!!

Thanx in advance

Find friends that give better advice after you have downloaded SP2 and have
the needed protection in your operating system. Then it will no longer
pester you.

 

[John Waller]

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service

Pack
2.

You need to get better advice.

Every reputable computer magazine and online resource I've read advises to
install it.

Also, new software and many of today's software updates increasingly require
Win XP SP2 to install.

 

[kurttrail]

You need to get better advice.

Every reputable computer magazine and online resource I've read
advises to install it.

Also, new software and many of today's software updates increasingly
require Win XP SP2 to install.

You are a lemming, and the lemmings in front of you are all jumping off
of a cliff. What do you do?

Personally, I do have SP2 installed. But MS is still providing patches
for SP1 installs, and will continue to provide them until SP3 ever sees
the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to
follow his friends advise, that is OK for him.

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[MAP]

Also, new software and many of today's software updates increasingly
require Win XP SP2 to install.

Tell me, which ones?
None that I am using. <eg>

 

[cmn_]

I am not surprised about your friend's advice. Since I installed SP2
(slipstreamed, not through Windows Update) I personally have had
nothing but problems; sporadic reboots which didn't happen with SP1,
inability to boot when other devices are in the system at boot time
(with HDD set to boot first) which never happened with vanilla XP or
SP1; a good proportion of open-source apps I use have stopped working
(SDL built from source refuses to work at all); many games now crawl
along where they ran beautifully on SP1...

SP2 was the straw that broke the camel's back, I'm no longer a Windows
user at all, and refuse to even consider Vista when it comes out.

That said, I do think Microsoft still provide SP1 patches, they did
last time I looked, and my SP1 boxen still get updates.

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

You are a lemming, and the lemmings in front of you are all jumping
off of a cliff. What do you do?

3-2-1-Cya.

In my case, though, it was a bridge. I'm scared of cliffs.

http://maxf.net/~outrager/11-2.jpg

(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)


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[Gary]

"I'm no longer a Windows user at all, and refuse to even consider Vista when
it comes out."

Then why are you here?

 

[Davy]

I only use Sp1 still...! No problems at all, but of course I don't us
Exploder, Outlook and the dreaded Messenger bug bearers...

Gawd help us wonder what the new Vista os will be like when launche
Next Year http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4832224.st

If Billy Gates could make Patchwork Quilts instead of his dreade
patches
"Mi Granny would be proud....

Dav

 

[Jone Doe]

"I'm no longer a Windows user at all, and refuse to even consider Vista
when it comes out."

Then why are you here?

To spread joy?

 

[cmn_]

Joy and happiness. Hehe. Just happened to notice this post and note my
own problems with SP2... Sorry, I may have gotten a little carried away
there.

 

[John Waller]

Tell me, which ones?

A sample:

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/systemreqs.html

Adobe Premiere Elements 2
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/systemreqs.html

Some utilities such as Windows Synctoy
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...54-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&DisplayLang=en

Apple Mac Boot Camp to run Win XP and OSX on the same Intel-based Mac box:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Some Canon camera drivers e.g. Powershot SD430
http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=OSCompatibilityAct&fcategoryid=113&keycode=windr

Don't be surprised if the next generation of full version software due next
year from Adobe (formerly Macromedia) and Microsoft requires SP2 as a
minimum.

 

[John Waller]

You are a lemming, and the lemmings in front of you are all jumping off of

a cliff. What do you do?

I try to be a well-informed one and work out who the well-informed ones are
around me so we can stick together

the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to follow
his friends advise, that is OK for him.

I don't have a problem with that.
But, we don't know why his friend offered this advice.

 

[Stubbo_of_Oz]

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service Pack
2.
..... snip .....

What is he an "computer expert" in? DOS based machines?????

 

[Bruce Chambers]

A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service Pack
2.

First of all, there would be very, very few reasons *not* to install
Service Pack 2. Were I you, I'd get a second opinion; your friend
sounds like nothing approaching an expert to me, unless he was able to
give you sound technical reasons that you simply didn't bother to relay.

Unfortunately, Automatic Updates, which I have since switched to to
"Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them" has downloaded
Service Pack 2 and every tike I start my laptop, it pesters me about
installing Win Service Pack 2. How do I get automatic updates to delete what
it has downloaded and to QUIT PESTERING ME!!

Install it.


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[kurttrail]

I try to be a well-informed one and work out who the well-informed
ones are around me so we can stick together


I don't have a problem with that.
But, we don't know why his friend offered this advice.

Who really cares? SP1 is still secure as long as the patches are up to
date.

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[kurttrail]

3-2-1-Cya.

In my case, though, it was a bridge. I'm scared of cliffs.

http://maxf.net/~outrager/11-2.jpg

(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

ROFL!

Next time I'll have to start the story, "You are a lemming, a lemming
without a parashoot, and . . . ."

And that pic has my knee hurting just thinking about the landing!

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And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."