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Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 Pulled | |
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| Time: 11:24 EST/16:24 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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This technical preview is no longer being offered in this format. To be sure that you receive the final release of Service Pack 2 when it becomes available, you should set your machine to Automatic Update. To better protect your data in the interim, you can go to http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and accept all critical updates. If you are an IT Professional and need to find the network installation package of Release Candidate 2, it will still be available for a short period of time at http://www.microsoft.com/sp2preview/ |
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| #1 By 7797 (63.76.44.209) at Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:39:28 PM |
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according to CNET its delayed again as of yesterday evening:
http://news.com.com/Windows+XP+update+delayed+again/2100-1016_3-5297645.html?tag=nefd.top The company had planned to wrap up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft representative said late Wednesday that the software giant had decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be released to manufacturing. |
| #2 By 2332 (66.228.91.12) at Thursday, August 05, 2004 02:01:14 PM |
| #1 - Do you make it a habit of quoting others and taking credit for it? (You quoted Horkheimer.) |
| #3 By 1642 (66.208.6.173) at Thursday, August 05, 2004 02:57:13 PM |
| Does this mean that the new version of Widows update is availble for everyone (not just beta testers)? The article seems to imply that. |
| #4 By 3653 (63.162.177.143) at Thursday, August 05, 2004 03:21:12 PM |
| #6 - the new version was available to anyone that knew the URL. Just change v4 to v5. |
| #5 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at Friday, August 06, 2004 12:44:31 AM |
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Well, I'd bet a thick dime that the systems that blew up were updated before AV SW, or certain utilities were uninstalled and the affected systems were rebooted "prior" to installing SP2 RC1/2. Probably a mass of explorer.exe errors on first boot, or the failure of key files to be written...
Intentional tests we ran suggested that users needed to uninstall all AV products "before" updating to SP2. McAffee's AV products resulted in the highest incidence of failure and Panda Software resulted in no failures. Panda did result in false reports that restricted users were not necessarily running recognizable AV SW - despite uninstalls and re-installs. However, all such services were running, normally. For users on domains, Admins should be centrally controlling AV and GPO impacting the same, or at least have tested the upgrade on all systems and sub-systems by now - there has been enough time. If not, then they have failed their users, or at least failed to effectively communicate the need for testing to their leaders. Bottom line is, this work is either a profession, a passion or both. In any case, each should either test and develop and execute patch proliferation policies/practices, or accept the consquences for not doing so. MS offers great free tools and technical guides for this and many other related purposes. Similar guides are all over the net. |
| #6 By 2459 (69.22.124.228) at Friday, August 06, 2004 09:12:51 AM |
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I've had no problems with Avast! through multiple installs/uninstalls of XP SP 2 betas.
No need to uninstall it between OS updates. It has also worked with SP 2's security center for some time now. http://www.avast.com This post was edited by n4cer on Friday, August 06, 2004 at 09:15. |
