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I don't really notice any difference, it is pretty much all internal data. It has security things though. Like a firewall and stuff. I'm pretty sure it wont be long until some hackers can start breaking through it because there are so many hackers. I've been waiting for this patch. It's better for us but it doesn't show it very much. Three cheers for SP2! Hip hip horray!
I thought it wasn't supposed to come out until tomorrow. Oh well, maybe today was just a pre set up thing.
Three more cheers for Service Pack 2! (For windows)
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Service Pack 2 for XP?
Has been out for a couple weeks I believe. I have heard it causes all kinds of problems. Let us know if your PC starts screwing up on you anytime in the next week or so.![:) :)](http://3.19.0.2/resources/emoji/smile.png)
I saw SP2 for XP on fileplanet a little over a week ago. Going to hold off installing it until SP2.1, never a good idea to be an early adopter with MicroSoft products unless you have a spare system you don't mind FUBARing and reformating every so often.
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It has nothing to do with hating Microsoft and everything to do with reality.
I am a Network Manager/Help Desk Supervisor and there is no way I am going to install SP2 on a bunch of PCs around the office until it has a proven track record and all the horror stories stop.
Microsoft has a bad track record for Service Packs causing problems. Anybody with any responsibility for PCs would be crazy to just roll it out without waiting to see what the impact is.
I've had SP2 for about 2 weeks now, and no problems whatsoever. It does have a monitor that watches your internal firewall, updates, and AV. (And Sven, WinXP has ALWAYS had a firewall built in, you just never noticed it till SP2 put it in your face.)
Overall, i am please with SP2.
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Here are some programs that won't work with it.
Star Trek StarFleet Command III v1.0 Activision
Medieval Total War 1 Activision
Pagemaker 7 Adobe
PageMaker (German) 6.5 Adobe
Photoshop Elements 2 Adobe
Ad-Shield 3 Ad-sheild
ERDisk for AD 6.7.128.0 Aelita
Nero 6 Ultra 6 Ahead
Nero Bruning ROM 5.5.6 Ahead
Al Mawrad (Arabic) 2003 Al Ariss
PhotoClick --- Al Maalin
AOL 9 AOL
AOL Toolkit 1.13.2 AOL
Uno 1 Aris Buenaventura
Dead Man's Hand 1 Atari
MotoRacer 3 Atari
Scrabble v3.0 Atari
Unreal II 1 Atari
Unreal Tournament 2003 1 Atari
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition 1 Atari
Extra Enterprise 2000 2000 --- Attachmate
Extra Personal Client 6.5 --- Attachmate
Extra! Bundle for TCP/IP 6.6 --- Attachmate
KEA! 340 v5.1 --- Attachmate
Command Antivirus 4.9 authentium
AutoCAD 2004 2004 --- Autodesk
bv-Admin Mobile 7 --- Bind View
StarCraft 1.05 Blizzard
BitDefender 7.2 Blizzard
Starcraft v1.11 Blizzard
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition v 1.0 Blizzard
Patrol for Windows 2000 3.4.0.11 --- BMC
Word Perfect Family Pack 5 - Encyclopedia Britannica Ready Reference 2003 Britannica
WISO Sparbuch 2004 Buhl
InnoculateIT --- CA
MpegCraft DVD x Caropus
Citrix ICA client 7.1 Citrix
FileMaker Pro (German) 5 Claris
ArcServe 6.61 Computer Associates
ArcServe 7.0 --- Computer Associates
BrightStor ArcServe Backup 9.0 --- Computer Associates
eTrust 7 Computer Associates
eTrust 6.0.100 --- Computer Associates
Etrust EZArmor AE Test Computer Associates
Corel Draw 9 - PhotoPaint (German) 9 Corel
WordPerfect Office 11 Corel
1st nd Grade Excelerator Curious George Studio 1 --- Countertop Software
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 1 Croteam
Retrospect Client x Dantz
Dave's Quick Search Toolbar 3.16 Dave Bau http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/doc.htm
Diet KaZaa 2.52 Diet KaZaa
The Lion King Animated Storybook 1 Disney
DivxPlayer 2.5.3 Divx
Command & Conquer Generals --- EA Games
Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour --- EA Games
Earth & Beyond v.1 EA Games
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 1 EA Games
SimCity 4 v1.0 EA Games
Freedom Force 1 Electronic Arts
NBA Live 2000 1 Electronic Arts
CheckSoft Home and Business 2004 Eliibrium
EDM File System Agent 3.1 --- EMC
Chess Advantage III: Lego Chess --- Encore
High School Advantage 2003 --- Encore Software
Encyclopedia Britannica 2000 Deluxe 1 Encyclopedia Britannica
Smarterm Office 10 --- Esker.com
Smarterm Office 11 --- Esker.com
Diskeeper 8 Executive Software
Der Brockhaus Multimedia (German) 2004 F.A. Brockhaus
JAWS 5.0 5 Freedom Scientific
F-Secure 5.52 F-Secure
Drivers & Utilities CD --- Fujitsu-Siemmens
Cute FTP 5.0 --- GlobalScape
Conflict: Desert Storm --- Gothamgames
Window-Eyes Professional 4.2 GW Micro
HP Quick Launch Buttons --- HP
HP SJ 6350 --- HP
HPSetup 42NAheBLU1 SW build --- HP
Exceed 8 --- Hummingbird
Host Explorer 8 --- Hummingbird
Rational's Clearcase 2003 IBM
ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition 10 10 IBM
SmartSuite Millennium Edition ScreenCam (German) 9.5 IBM Lotus
ICQ Pro 3916 ICQ
iMesh 3.1 iMesh
TurboCAD Professional 9 IMSI
Installshield 8 Installshield
Quicken 2003 Premier Home and Business 2003 Intuit
Quicken Deluxe 2001 2001 Intuit
Kazaa 2.52 Kazaa
Kerio Personal Firewall 4 Kerio
WinRou
Lucas Arts
Merriam Webster's Reference Library 2003 - Journey to the Planets 2003 M-2K
ColdFusion MX for J2EE 6 --- Macromedia
Freehand 8 (German) 8 Macromedia
MapSend Direct Route --- Magellan
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2004 6 McAfee
McAfee Parental Controls 1 McAfee
McAfee VirusScan 4.51 McAfee
Netshield 4.5 --- McAfee
VisursScan 7 McAfee
Encarta Enzyklopдdie 2002 Microsoft
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings --- Microsoft
Application Center 2000 SP2 --- Microsoft
BizTalk 2004 --- Microsoft
CMS 2001 Microsoft
Comabt Flight Simulator 3 1 Microsoft
Excel 2003 Microsoft
Halo Combat Evolved (Arabic and Hebrew) Trial Microsoft
MapPoint Europe 2004 Microsoft
Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1 Microsoft
MS License 3.7 Microsoft
MSBN --- Microsoft
MSN 7.02 Microsoft
MSN 9 QFE1 and 9.1 beta 9 Microsoft
Office 11 Microsoft
Office - Power Point 2002 (German) 2002 Microsoft
Office Access 2002 2002 Microsoft
Office System - Power Point 2003 Microsoft
Office XP Access 10 Microsoft
Office XP Professional Excel 10.0 SP2 --- Microsoft
Office XP SP2 - PowerPoint 11 Microsoft
Office XP Standard 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2000 9 Microsoft
Outlook 2002 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2003 11 Microsoft
Outlook Web Access x Microsoft
Revenge of Arcade v1.0 Microsoft
Server Administrator Tools --- Microsoft
SMS 2.0 SP5 Microsoft
SMS 2.0 SP5 Microsoft
SMS 2003 RC2 Microsoft
SMS 2003 RTM Microsoft
SMS --- Microsoft
SNA Server 4.0 SP4 --- Microsoft
SQL --- Microsoft
SQL 7 Microsoft
SQL 2000a 2000a SP3 --- Microsoft
TaxSaver 1999 Microsoft
Virutal PC 2004 Microsoft
Visual Basic 6 Microsoft
Visual C++ (16-bit) 2 Microsoft
Visual Studio 7 Microsoft
Visual Studio 97 Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET Enterprise 2003 --- Microsoft
Visual Studio 98 6 Microsoft
Windows Sharepoint Services 2 Microsoft
Windows Sharepoint Services --- Microsoft
Word XP Microsoft
Works Suite 2004 2004 Microsoft
WSS 2 Microsoft
Musicmatch Jukebox 8.20.0107 Musicmatch
StyleSelector x NEC
Veritas --- NEC
AppManager 5.01 NetIQ
End2End 4.1 --- NetIQ
File and Storage Administrator 2.1 (191067) --- NetIQ
VewNow 1.05 1.05 NetManage.com
View Now 1.0 1 NetManage.com
ViewNow 1.05 1.05 NetManage.com
McAfee Remote Desktop 32 --- Network Associates
ESET NOD32 for windows --- Nod32
Norman Personal Firewall 1.40 AETEST Norman
Norman Personla Firewall 4 Norman
Becky 12.09.01
KaZaa Media Desktop 2.6.3
PhotoImpact 7 (Traditional Chinese) 7
Sony: PCV-W510G 510G
Super Collapse (Demo Only) 2
UX Theme MultiPatcher 1.5.1
PhotoExplosion Deluxe 1 Nova Development
NovaNet Web 3.6 NovaStor
Pinnacle Studio Beta NX - Pinnacle Studio 9 cause data execution prevention errors
Instant CD/DVD 7 Pinnacle
Real Player (free version) 10 Real Networks
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 1 Red Storm
Action Request System x Redmedy
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne 1 RockStar Games
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season v2003 --- Sierra
Tribes 2 1 Sierra
Harvard Graphics 3 Software Publishing Corp
SonicWALL Virus Scan --- SonicWall
Sony: PCV-V200G: --- Sony
VirusSecurity 2004 2004 Sourcenext
BootSkin x Stardock
Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5 --- Symantec
Norton Antivirus 2003 2003 Symantec
Norton Systemworks 2003 - GoBack Personal Edition Other MS Symantec
Norton Systemworks 2003 Professional Edition 2003 Symantec
Norton Systemworks 2004 - GoBack32 Beta Symantec
PCAnywhere 11 --- Symantec
Smantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 8 Symantec
Talkworks Pro x Symantec
Winfax Pro 10 Symantec
Roboword Pro (JAPANESE) 6 Technocraft
Style XP 2 tgtsoft
Eclipse 3 Unknown
Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag 1 Valuesoft
Roller Coaster Factory v3.0 Valuesoft
Elite Forces Vietnam: Special Assignment 2 ver 1 ver 1 Valusoft
Midnight Outlaw Illegal Street Drug v1.0 ValuSoft
Backup Exec 9 Veritas
Backup Exec 9.1.4691 Veritas
Backup Exec 8.6.1 --- Veritas
Backup Exec 9.1 --- Veritas
BackupExec 9.1 Veritas
BackupExec 8.6.1 Veritas
Bakcup Exec 9.1 --- Veritas
Volume Manager 3.1 3.1 Veritas
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 v1.0 Westwood
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 1 Westwood
Windgate 5.2.3 WinGate
Reflection 9 WRQ
Reflection 9.03 WRQ
Reflection 10 WRQ
Reflection X 10 WRQ
Reflection X 11 WRQ
Reflection X 10 --- WRQ
Xoreax Incredibuild --- Xoreax
Yahoo x Yahoo
Yahoo instant Messenger x Yahoo
Yahoo Messenger 6.0.0.167 Yahoo
PC Magazine Business Winstone Benchmark 2004 Ziff Davis
ZoneAlarm 5.0.590 ZoneLabs
Yep I popped on SP2 and no problems. Although I had to turn off the pop up blocker, that thing works like crap. Google bar does the job just fine for me, and doesn't block flash sites.![image](http://www.mmorpg.com/images/emoticons/emt_biggrin.gif)
The XP Firewall has always been there and worked fairly well (not great but stops on the "hacker wannabe" attacks) so they really just upgraded it. I am wondering if there built in anti virus works well. Although I think thats a great addition. With the amount of viruses going around today and to many users ignoring the "experation" date on thier AV you gotta say 'way to go' on that one. Even if it's just a basic level of defense. it's about time.
But so far no problems. all my games and apps still work so I can keep breathing. and my network still smooth.
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I just saw the list above (was posted while I was originally writing this) .. It should be pointed out I see several programs on that list that were not certified to work with XP in the first place, not to mention a pile more that had know bugs when used in XP, so for about half that list I'd say no big suprise it's still having problems or not working at all with SP2. A pile another part of that list is web freeware that is not really all that important and if it is thier are alternatives for it. As for the more important ones that are bugged hope they patch the software of MS patches the SP.
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but to people who know the internet well enough its been out there for almost a month i belive is when i first saw it, not official of course but it was he same thing
I've had no problems with it at all. It's great! :]
It was even posted Here at MMORPG two weeks ago.