Advice of the day. Do NOT install SP2!!!!
 

I was so stupid to do this on 3 computers at one time.
Now nothing, I repeat NOTHING is working anymore!!
No McAfee, no ICQ, no Windows Update, No Start button, no Toolbar

Fuck you M$ ! Why do I pay for this crap !? :321GFY

happend to my friends comp too... microsoft sucks

Workin fine here.

hmmz what shal I do? comments please

mine's fine too, but it's not the same

every day i find a new thing that doesn't work quite like it used to

:feels-hot

since the install of sp2 my computer crashes once a day completely and without warning. :321GFY

Windows 2000 Professional 4 Life :2 cents:

(b.t.w. you should read SP2's release notes and config your firewall)

I've had the update thing in the task bar for awhile, but I'm holding off.

fucked up my roomies computer too

Installed it last Wednesday on my laptop (desktop runs on Win2K). No proplems at all. Had to tweak the wireless settings a bit, but that was it.

Had me worried cause I needed the laptop for Vegas, but all was fine. McAfee, email, browsers, and the like.

same words i told myself when Microsoft released the patch since day one.

best advise, give it 2 months max before you install

You should have read the 6 pages of software that don't work anymore :P

No Services (under Administrative Tools) at all are being started.
Seems like therefore nothing is working anymore. Anyone has had this problem too and knows how to solve it ?

http://support.microsoft.com/search/...rchExtraQr y=
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Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

(842242) - Discusses the behavior that occurs because Windows Firewall is turned on by default and blocks unsolicited programs. To make an exception for a program to run, add it to the exceptions list in Windows Firewall. Alternatively, you can open a port.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;842242
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Programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer

(884130) - Discusses how some programs may not function as they did before you installed Windows XP SP2. This article lists known programs that may function differently.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;884130

:thumbsup

Damn, if you even pay for this, your situation sucks... Send Microsoft a feedback or something. They always say they always respect their clients.... or do they?....

:glugglug :glugglug

Shit, I must just be lucky. I've installed it 3 times w/o any problems. McAfee did pop-up complaining that XP's new Security Center was trying to take over so I told McAfee to keep handling that functionality. All apps working, no crashing, nothing.

Well, I can't agree with you...
Two comp's and everything works more than fine...

Icq - works, live update - works, of course there are start and toolbar(s)...
Only one problem - Vegas 4 doens't want to start, after re-installation (of Vegas) everything is ok...

From the official stats surveyed by major corporations that have installed SP2 on a large scale, they've determined 90% have a smooth install or minor problems, but 10% are experiencing complete problems afterwards. So its about 1 out of 10 getting fucked up. From a Q&A standpoint that is attrocious.

I'm hitting 50%. One PC is running smooth with SP2. However, the other PC hated it. All kinds of problems. So, I removed it and everything is back to normal.

And on another note, has anyone figured out a code to beat the SP2 pop up blocker?

I don't plan on installing it at all.

I might switch to linux permanently though :)

only on my latop which is slow like hell and uses the Home version it went well. 2 Other pc's are totally fucked up now. Very nice for my employees tomorrow. This is gonna be a terrible short night again. I even can't uninstall any programs because all services don't start when windows starts. No fucking chance to uninstall SP2. Not even in Safe Mode.

Laptop - Intel P4 2.8GHz, 512MB
Desktop - Intel P4 3.06GHz, 1GB

Both from XP Corporate SP1 to XP Corporate SP2, and as I said only Vegas (on both machines) had problem to start. On desktop I re-installed Vegas 4, on laptop he starts after "debug", I'm too lazy to re-install him on laptop so everytime when I start prog I need to "debug" him in order to start... And one more thing, in both cases OS is installed on NTFS...

Installed on 17 Pc'so far not one problem. They run even better than before.

thats why im still running win2kpro

everything works fine for me

everything is great here :thumbsup

no problems here now.

only software I had any problems with was Nero and Norton...
both were fixed within 2 minutes with their updates.

No issues here.

worked great on one pc, shitty on another...

Yahoo's tools seem to fuck it up badly and so does norton

ms is making some fixes to sp2, yes its not wise to install :)

Never install stuff that isn't on Windows Update for at least a week. Anything else is just beta testing:glugglug

There was an error with Userunit.exe . This had to do woth file permission settings on the C drive. After I changed the settings to Everyone (full access) windows was working again. Very strange because WinXP was working without any problems with the settings which I had before. :321GFY

Fuck that I am not beta testing this shit for MS.

Yahoo Instant Messenger 6 Yahoo
WordPerfect Office 11 Corel

Lol great biz move.