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»Windows XP Service Pack 2 is out«







Important:
• Computer has to reboot after installation
• It takes approx 1 hour to install
• Some problems with other software are listed here:


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posted by knn

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1 hour? XP only takes 30mins to install on my pc White laugh

posted by Crossfade
  

Microsoft don't want you using filesharing apps



knn:
* Some problems with other software are listed here:

Then of course there's the problems NOT listed by microsoft - the ones they don't want you to fix White laugh

For example the IP port limit has been locked at ten (half open connections), try to open any more and you get;
Quote:
EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts

What affect does it have?

I just ran "netstat" (the command line which shows open tcp/ip connections) and my machine is currently using 116 ports. Now even allowing for the 96 currently in use by eDonkey, I'd still be using twice as many as Microsoft want (and the unpatched SP2 will allow).

Fortunately there is a fix for it at
Very Happy


posted by Marl64
  

I tried to donwload it thrice yesterday



I give up
I downloaded the Service Pack 3 times yesterday, but everytime the file was corrupted... Not again

posted by knn
  

OK installed but annoyances



I downloaded this thing successfully and it took approx 30 minutes to install on my 3Ghz Pentium (+ download time of course).

But... what is that? It raises an annoying "Security alarm" (with a beep and a yellow bar in the Internet Explorer) for something totally safe. If I try to open this small html "Hallo World" example...
<html><body><table style="filter2:"><tr><td>Hallo World</td></tr></table></body></html>

... IE warns me Set your George Michael free Not again

Aaargh!


posted by knn
  

Some Help



Sadly this does not address the one you specifically listed, but this will turn of a couple of the naggy messages each time you start up - "You don't have any virus software installed and so your system will yada, yada, yada" and "You have Automatic Updates turned off and so your system can't grass you up..."
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Disable Security Centre Warnings "You have no virus protection" and "Auto updates are off"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
"UpdatesDisableNotify"=dword:00000001

Either copy and paste the above into notepad and save as a .reg file, or download the one below.

To use, double click the .reg file and say yes to the prompt "Are you sure and all that.."

Or you could simply turn them off from the security manager White laugh


Security Nags Off.rar
You have to Unrar it first of course
Download 371 Bytes



posted by Marl64
  





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