Windows XP SP2
 

I have just installed SP2 and I am having problems with it. I can no longer use my custom themes and I can't install my anti-virus software (PC-Cillin 2002) because there is a problem with the installer.

Has anyone else had any issues?

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I'm not touching a beta like this. I'm not even installing it at work for at least a week after it goes final.

Wise words, redlemon. I can't use some of the start bar options like search or windows update. Looks like a flatten then reinstall for me, unless I can fix this somehow. I can't roll back to SP1 either because I disabled system restore. :(

Oh, and I meant to say, best of luck with the recovery.

I'm using 2096 (the RC1) on 2 computers at the moment and it's great - but I've heard of quite a few issues with 2120 (I think that's the one on the site at the moment). I'd hang around for RC2 or the real thing when it appears.
Good luck, aarchaon!

beta != RC1

:rolleyes:

Same thing I do. I usually wait at least 2 weeks before I buy any software, OS, games, or otherwise. I do enough QA at work. I don't want to have to suffer through some other companies lack of QA by buying the product prematurely.

I still don't have SP1 installed. Had problems with it a year ago...haven't bothered since.

same here for the first part. It has been a good while since I even looked it, but I seem to recall having some issues with that as well.

i'm anti-SP1 too... nothing but problems on machines that didn't already have it pre-installed.

hehe, that's why I slipstreamed SP1 into my xp install.

service packs are such a disaster for MS....so many users have issues with them initially, but I guess it takes the beta testers to work out the glitches. still, I'd like to see them get it right the first time, at least once.

I'm surprised you've lasted this long without installing it. Seems a lot of stuff these days requires you to.

Remember, SP2 due to the new "Security Enhancements" (which may or may not warrant quotes, we'll see) changes some fundamental things so that until PC Cillin, McAffee, and Symantec update the way their programs fit into it (and already have their internal betas, just they wont release until SP2 comes out.)

So firewalls are reconfigs are going to be a headache as well as programs no longer working due to memory being more restricted access. It's going to enable NX (no execute) on certain blocks of memory, and if you don't write your programs in strict separate (no executing directly from data) you are dead in the water.

THis will be a tricky thing to see pan out. Still don't understand completely how they are going to get a Von Neumann architecture to work in Harvard Architecture mode.

(Von Neumann Architecture is Instructions and Data are saved in the same space for execution, easy for viruses masqurading as data to overwrite code.
Harvard Architecture has strict separation of data and instructions so viruses are much harder to accidentally execute)

You talk about MS service packs and problems. I noticed a performance increase (HUGE) between SP1 & SP2 on W2K Pro. I updated to SP3, and dropped a ton. I don't use W2K on anything other than my server, so it's not a problem any more, really.