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    xp service pack 2 - warning

    Have "installed" this on 2 machines so far:

    One machine failed to boot and I had to use system restore to go back to sp1

    The other, mine, has had loads of small things changed such as my MSN messenger email no longer taking me to my hotmail folder, like I had before, but to my separate outlook express email.

    It failed to recognise my Ati drivers and so I had to reinstall those. There are a number of kernels etc that are missing on boot up.

    Why do Microsoft insist on screwing with my perfectly set up pc!!

    I hate them with a passion but are too lazy to learn Linux.

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    Yeah - I have that thing about MSN - it just open outlook, which I could easily do anyway (it's on my task bar). I want to open hotmail to change my junk mail settings etc.

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    missing kernels on bootup? why would it list old kernels? SP2 has a new ntoskrnl.exe, you'll need to re-apply boot screens

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun
    Yeah - I have that thing about MSN - it just open outlook, which I could easily do anyway (it's on my task bar). I want to open hotmail to change my junk mail settings etc.
    To change MSN messenger to open Hotmail instead of Outlook you need to

    Open Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet Options > Programs Tab

    Change Email (drop down menu) select Hotmail

    directhex - yeah I need to see whats missing on boot up and google for it. Expect smooth installations these days - why do I kid myself!!

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    Not had any problems myself... that's on two AMD Athlon rigs.
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    i've had zero problems with SP2 yet... maybe because i installed it after a format so everything was new and no files wud be there conflicting O_o

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    installed it on 3 machines (athlon xp on nforce2, athlon xp on kt333, celeron on sis648), there was one incompatability during install that was solved by uninstalling alcohol 120%

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    I'd have thought you'd have waited for the Linux binaries of SP2, hex?

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    Installed on two machines, so far ive only had minor problems on 1 of these machines (which unlucky for me is my machine):

    Explorer doesn't load after login and all but one of my games i had installed dont work. The other machine doesnt have games onit, but i presume the gameing problems would still be present with this machine 2.

    These are more annnoying rather than "I cant use my machine" problems. I can live with them. I just get task manager up after login to restart explorer. Im putting this problem down to somthing going wrong with the slipstreamed CD i done. The other computer i put SP2 on had it installed the normal way i.e downloaded then installed like any other software. The xplorer problem isn't present with that computer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez
    I'd have thought you'd have waited for the Linux binaries of SP2, hex?

    wine -winver winxp sp2_install_full.exe
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    It's really strange!! After posting this thread it seems that the kernel errors i got on boot up have dissapeared!! My machine is running as sweet as before. (nforce2, amd xp 2800)

    I have seen this before (for example when networking in xp) where you have some gripes and windows xp seems to do nothing then a few hours later sorts it out.

    I am tempted to go back and install sp2 on the kt400, xp 2500 machine and see what happens. Maybe I got a bad install on that one. The only problem I see is that MS don't always give out enough info on what the upgrade actually does.

    Well fingers crossed here goes once more.

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    ok found out what the errors were. It seems that on installing sp2 it mucks about with (amongst others) Asus probe temp monitoring drivers and refuses to install a .sys and a .dll file.

    I suppose the solution will be to got to the Asus site and download the latest Asus probe software.

    Still don't know why the other PC wouldn't boot into windows though - don't really want to got through that again cos it's not my PC!!

    btw I have heard that there are issues with AMD 64 setups and sp2.

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    There are, and they relate to the data execution prevention feature in XP SP2. Turn it off.

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