Windows Service Pack 2

[Greg]

I am apparently, like many other PC users, having trouble
if I download the Windows updates. Every time I down
load updates the system crashes and costs me a fortune in
the repair shop. My technicians and others I have spoken
with encounter this problem with the downloads often but
have no problems when updates are installed via CD. I
have been told by some techs that SP2 for XP Home is due
out shortly according to advice from Microsoft, yet when
I contacted Microsoft they said they have no indication
of a release date.

With so many updates isn't it about time Microsoft
released SP2? Perhaps there are more problems with XP
than they can rectify

 

[Testy]

Personally I see no need for SP2 and most likely will not install it EVER.
My system works great as it is.

Testy

 

[Nicholas]

The current forecast for the release of SP2 for Windows XP is sometime
in the 3rd quarter of the year 2004 (next year).

Windows Desktop Service Pack Road Map
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/desktop/consumer/servicepacks.mspx


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Nicholas

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| I am apparently, like many other PC users, having trouble
| if I download the Windows updates. Every time I down
| load updates the system crashes and costs me a fortune in
| the repair shop. My technicians and others I have spoken
| with encounter this problem with the downloads often but
| have no problems when updates are installed via CD. I
| have been told by some techs that SP2 for XP Home is due
| out shortly according to advice from Microsoft, yet when
| I contacted Microsoft they said they have no indication
| of a release date.
|
| With so many updates isn't it about time Microsoft
| released SP2? Perhaps there are more problems with XP
| than they can rectify

 

[Stephen]

I don't see how SP2 is going to that particular situation. Once it's out you
will be back to Auto-Update again!

Besides, it's too soon. WinXP will have a good run, I hope, and with Windows
Update it shouldn't need a second SP until sometime in 2005. The ETA is 3/4
2004.

If you have trouble with Auto-Update way then watch the security bulletins
and download appropriate updates *manually*. There are so many this sounds a
pain to me, and I need not say that clearly it would require diligence of
you.With the help of a utility called Qchain available from Microsoft this
may not be as bad as it sounds. Qchain enables you do do a slew of updates
all at once with need for only one reboot.

And make sure your virus scanner is up to date.

Stephen
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| I am apparently, like many other PC users, having trouble
| if I download the Windows updates. Every time I down
| load updates the system crashes and costs me a fortune in
| the repair shop. My technicians and others I have spoken
| with encounter this problem with the downloads often but
| have no problems when updates are installed via CD. I
| have been told by some techs that SP2 for XP Home is due
| out shortly according to advice from Microsoft, yet when
| I contacted Microsoft they said they have no indication
| of a release date.
|
| With so many updates isn't it about time Microsoft
| released SP2? Perhaps there are more problems with XP
| than they can rectify

 

[Bob Eyster]

I would think that SP2 would come out 1 QT 2004. I already have 16 Hotfixes
marked SP2.


Bob Eyster
PS: sorry for the email. most of my messages to the NG do not show up to
others, but I can see them.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am apparently, like many other PC users, having trouble
if I download the Windows updates. Every time I down
load updates the system crashes and costs me a fortune in
the repair shop. My technicians and others I have spoken
with encounter this problem with the downloads often but
have no problems when updates are installed via CD. I
have been told by some techs that SP2 for XP Home is due
out shortly according to advice from Microsoft, yet when
I contacted Microsoft they said they have no indication
of a release date.

With so many updates isn't it about time Microsoft
released SP2?

Current thinking appears to be next summer. I think it more likely that
they do not have *that* many updates, and are wanting to get everything
out into a single further SP2 before really moving into the next round
of the system - for (probably) 2005