Windows XP Service Pack 2 [Released!]

[Derek]

Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP will be released in the next couple of days.

Get ready!

Derek

Update Aug 9th, 2004:

Hi guys, you can download WinXP SP2 from BP6.Com here:

http://www.bp6.com/board/dload.php?acti ... file_id=46

Also, post your comments about SP2 here:

http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=16569

[iSDn]

The final has been leaked a few days ago...

[Derek]

The final has been leaked a few days ago...

Just be careful you get the correct version. There are a lot of mislabeled RTMs floating around that can do a lot of damage.

[InactiveX]

The correct version is WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

It is important to read this page before installing.

[iSDn]

It's the correct version from Winbeta

[purrkur]

I would recommend waiting for maybe a week or two before installing it. Let the fever go down a bit, let the problems and bugs be known and hopefully there will be solutions as well once you run into your own problems. I don't trust Microsoft enaugh to blindly install anything that they produce because they say it is better

[Derek]

Hi guys, you can download WinXP SP2 from BP6.Com here:

http://www.bp6.com/board/dload.php?acti ... file_id=46

Also, post your comments about SP2 here:

http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=16569

[iSDn]

I've downloaded already..but haven't installed it yet (Doom3 is the course ) ...but thank you guys, i love this community!!!!!!!!

Officiall download from Microsoft:
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http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... P2-ENU.exe

[g0fvt]

Hi, downloaded SP2 from Microsoft (the network install 266Mb version), have used it on a pair of Athlon machines and my VP6.

Nothing too much jumps out as being revolutionary, more evolutionary, some security features are more prominent such as the firewall and virus scanner "reminder".

Some settings in Outlook Express are also changed, such as blocking some of the content linked into HTML emails, so for instance pictures hosted on external sites do not appear, allegedely to prevent spammers identifying your IP address I think. Some options seem to have appeared regarding listing of UPNP devices, otherwise nothing obvious.

No problems at all with it yet, it installed smoothly and runs fine.

Have not investigated whether it fixes a bug that I have noticed with some AVI files, where a corrupt file with a bad header can cause machine to go into high cpu usage, my VP has had a registry hack to fix it, maybe I need to try one of the other machines to see if this is fixed yet.

Will post again if I manage to break it!

VP6 2 933Mhz P3s at 1155Mhz, 2 120Gb Maxtors in Raid 0 as boot drive, 2 other drives. 1Gb PC133 Ram. Lowly TNT M64 32Mb video card.

UPNP enabled Dlink DSL500 router.

Best Wishes David

[3dcandy]

Changes mainly to in-built firewall. New security centre so you can check status of firewall, virus checker etc. Changes to IE and Outlook Express, pop ups are blocked....

[purrkur]

Changes mainly to in-built firewall. New security centre so you can check status of firewall, virus checker etc. Changes to IE and Outlook Express, pop ups are blocked....

Hehehehe! I love this. Microsofts main thing on Linux is that they say that Linux programmers don't innovate. They copy.

So this is Microsoft "innovation"??? Copying what has been found in Linux and third party products for ages???

Yeah!!! Go Microsoft. I really want to spend my hard earned cash on your products (**NOT**)!

[hyperspace]

There is a "SP2 Patch". See if you can download it from MS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

I couldn't.

[Derek]

Bad people!