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Have you installed the latest Microsoft Service Pack 2 yet? If so, you will probably find that some of your applications will no longer work.
And that includes some of Microsoft's own applications. I haven't installed the update yet and the more research I do the more convinced I am that I won't be updating anytime soon.
Just because the cost of hard drives has gone down in price I don't believe the software companies have the 'right', for lack of a better word, to try to use up as much of that space as they can with useless code in their applications.
I do understand that not only one or two people work on the code to develop an application. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the security issues surrounding Internet Explorer is due to a bunch of useless code sitting there waiting for some person of ill repute to take advantage of it.
This latest upgrade - the Service Pack 2 is a 1.6 GB download and to me that is outrageous. If you'd like to read about some of the issues revolving around this upgrade, take a look at Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2. This article also lists some of the software applications that will likely have problems.
Do yourself a favor and make sure you have a complete backup of all your files before you download this update. I use Firefox as my default browser which has proven more secure, easier to use and I can set it up to do what I want it to do. The other big advantage is that Firefox is not part of my operating system like IE is part of Windows.
Personally, I think Microsoft should have paid more attention to security issues long before now. And that's My Two Cents.
Posted on 08/25/04 at 21:19:48 by Lois M. Jeary
Category: My Two Cents
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Well Lois, I downloaded the upgrade, and it took me three tries! The first two tries took so long, on dial up, that I lost my copnnection prior to it finishing. The third try got me the installation, after 4 hours.
I haven't noticed anything not working, since the install, but I will keep my radar on, and let you know how it turns out.
I will jump on the FireFox bandwagon with you! There isn't a better browser out there.
It seems that the only time I hit with nasties, is when I have had to open IE for some reason.
Another thing that FireFox handles much better than IE is popup blocking. IE's blocker makes it so that you can not click on the links within the pages you're looking at. Not so with FireFox. FF blocks unwanted, unexpected, popup windows, not links within a page... PERIOD.
Everyone would be much better off if they'd all kick the IE habit.
And that's My Two Cents.
Trii
I agree Joe. We pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars to keep upgrading the Microsoft operating system and lo and behold, there always seems to be some major problem once enough people have used it.
I think it's time these guys were made more accountable. Where else would you pay hundreds of dollars for a product that didn't operate properly? Microsoft keeps placing a bandage on their os until something like the issues with IE blow it out of the water. Security should have been a priority with them all along.
Lois you are right! In my ten years as a PC tech it has never ceased to amaze me that MS could deliver products to paying customers that were so badly written and badly QC'd that the first version of windows 95 installation floppies had a virus right from MS own facility.
(third or fourth disk as I remember)
This update you are talking about doesn't surprise me either. 1.6 Gig? Normal operating proceedure for MS it seems. Bloated code is the order of the day with them.
Of course this update affects XP as it is the newest bug riddled OS they have come out with.
Personally I would never trade my Win2000 PRO for XP no matter how much they tell me that XP is based on Win2000 .
My personal two cents is this.
Get Win2000, Update, patch and keep it that way, don't use IE except for the updates, Don't use email, get all the anti trojan programs you can lay your hands on and keep them updated as well.
Scans should be done once a day if using email and accepting HTML mail, both anti virus and anti trojan.
Don't buy every OS MS comes out with unless forced to do so because you instantly become a unpaid Beta tester.
A good place to grab some great anti trojan horse programs http://www.zippyads.com/tools/ can be found at this site. Of course using a ( http://www.spamlesshosting.com) spamless hosting company for your business also helps keep the Trojan wars down to a low hum. :-) Just my thoughts.
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I haven't noticed anything not working, since the install, but I will keep my radar on, and let you know how it turns out.
I will jump on the FireFox bandwagon with you! There isn't a better browser out there.
It seems that the only time I hit with nasties, is when I have had to open IE for some reason.
Another thing that FireFox handles much better than IE is popup blocking. IE's blocker makes it so that you can not click on the links within the pages you're looking at. Not so with FireFox. FF blocks unwanted, unexpected, popup windows, not links within a page... PERIOD.
Everyone would be much better off if they'd all kick the IE habit.
And that's My Two Cents.
Trii