Service packs

[Guest]

Hello!

yesterday on my new laptop, the internet connection worked flawless and surfing over the net was laudable quick and limpid, untill the installation of the recent updates.

It is sheer wonder that I am able to be here....most sites have been become inaccessible, even the one of my provider and this morning the server refused even microsoft...some pages may open, like yahoo account, but when I want to read my mails, it wont work.
sometimes double clicking works out, but it's not a guarantee.
Trouble is that I have some web courses to attend and given the present situation I am desperate.

Any help to solve this is most welcome.
Apparently lots of people in Belgium cant normally use the internet since they installed the service packs.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Hello!

yesterday on my new laptop, the internet connection worked flawless
and surfing over the net was laudable quick and limpid, untill the
installation of the recent updates.

It is sheer wonder that I am able to be here....most sites have been
become inaccessible, even the one of my provider and this morning the
server refused even microsoft...some pages may open, like yahoo
account, but when I want to read my mails, it wont work. sometimes
double clicking works out, but it's not a guarantee.
Trouble is that I have some web courses to attend and given the
present situation I am desperate.

Any help to solve this is most welcome.
Apparently lots of people in Belgium cant normally use the internet
since they installed the service packs.

You say 'service packs' plural. There is only one. SP2 is still beta - and
if you choose to ignore the caveat about installing beta software on
production systems and you have problems, well guess who you need to blame?
Hint: try looking in the mirror...

 

[caroljean52]

You say 'service packs' plural. There is only one. SP2 is still beta - and
if you choose to ignore the caveat about installing beta software on
production systems and you have problems, well guess who you need to
blame?
Hint: try looking in the mirror...

Well, a few days ago I went to check Windows Update and the dang thing
insisted that SP2 was a critical update! Didn't say a danged thing about
beta. Since I don't keep tabs on Microsoft on a daily basis, I assumed this
meant it was finally out of beta and ready to go. So I guess by your
standard that means that I'm too stupid for words that I installed it.

*Obviously* installing it was a huge mistake, but if Microsoft is going to
call it a critical update and give no warnings, the blame can darned well go
to them! Not all of us have the time to delve into the inner workings of our
computer in a major way on a daily basis. If I'm following the
directions/advice given by the folks who wrote the software, that doesn't
make me the foolish one.

Carol

 

[Tom]

Well, a few days ago I went to check Windows Update and the dang thing
insisted that SP2 was a critical update! Didn't say a danged thing about
beta. Since I don't keep tabs on Microsoft on a daily basis, I assumed this
meant it was finally out of beta and ready to go. So I guess by your
standard that means that I'm too stupid for words that I installed it.

*Obviously* installing it was a huge mistake, but if Microsoft is going to
call it a critical update and give no warnings, the blame can darned well go
to them! Not all of us have the time to delve into the inner workings of our
computer in a major way on a daily basis. If I'm following the
directions/advice given by the folks who wrote the software, that doesn't
make me the foolish one.

Carol

Well, if you had taken the time to click the link "Read more" in the update listing, you'd find that it was beta, and the what nots involved installing it.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Well, a few days ago I went to check Windows Update and the dang thing
insisted that SP2 was a critical update!

Erm no it didn't. And, if it did, you're running a different version of WU
to the rest of the planet! SP2 is STILL BETA and, as such, isn't being
offered for download from the Windows Update site. I check for updates
weekly and I've never been offered it. I have it installed on my test
system, but not on this one because you don't go installing Beta software in
a production environment. It is at the second Release Candidate stage, this
is the final testing stage before release - BUT IT IS STILL BETA AND, AS
SUCH, SHOULD NOT BE INSTALLED IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. If you choose to
ignore this warning, and you have problems, then you have no-one to blame
but yourself! So, tell me, where you downloaded it from because I know for a
fact it wasn't Windows Update!

Didn't say a danged thing

about beta. Since I don't keep tabs on Microsoft on a daily basis, I
assumed this meant it was finally out of beta and ready to go. So I
guess by your standard that means that I'm too stupid for words that
I installed it.

Correct. If you're stupid enough to install beta software on a production
system then you deserve all the problems you have.

*Obviously* installing it was a huge mistake, but if Microsoft is
going to call it a critical update and give no warnings, the blame
can darned well go to them! Not all of us have the time to delve into
the inner workings of our computer in a major way on a daily basis.
If I'm following the directions/advice given by the folks who wrote
the software, that doesn't make me the foolish one.

MS isn't calling it anything - BECAUSE IT'S STILL BETA!! The blame is
entirely yours! So, tell me again - where did you download it from? You see,
when MS rolls out a SP, every country receives it simultaneously. You're in
Belgium, I'm in the UK. I have friends in the US who aren't being offered it
as a critical update yet, either. So, you see, I'm finding it very hard to
believe that you're being offered the final released version on your own,
personal, exclusively for your use only version of WU.

As HAL9000 would have said: Does not compute.

Still don't believe me? Look here: -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx

What does it say just above the download link...? Your Honour, the
prosecution rests.