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Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment The trick seems to be that either a) you've used an old version of SP2 and you have to connect to the Windows Update site to install more patches (SP2+) and then use Windows Update to upgrade to SP3 OR b) you've downloaded a later version of SP2...
[June 18, 2008, 9:23]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: A First Look
Talkback MS Windows or Linux? I love linux but im willing to stick to windows on 1st impressions of sp2. MS doesnt release incomplete software.its just that its a popular OS and some people are out to exploit some of windows great features its just a risk...
[August 18, 2004, 4:57]
Looking For True Permanence In File Storage
Blog Comment Looks like its all Windows. I guess its my fault I didn't really make it clear that that Debbie is my Debian 4.0 Home Server, or DHS with Samba 3.0 on it for the Windows client machines to have storage.
[April 22, 2008, 2:14]
Outward Bound With Vista's New Firewall review
Reviews Because I'm running the current Windows Vista beta 2, which contains every available feature, I'm able to access both Windows Firewall controls. Given the basic nature of this console, I fear that for convenience, Microsoft is planning to provide...
[June 6, 2006, 14:40]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment Well it looks as if everything for Windows Home Server RC1 got burned onto DVD-R and CD-R's OK. A second ISO of about 296 MB is a Windows bare metal restore disk that probably loads Windows PE (Pre-install Environment, fancy name for No-GUI Windows...
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
"♬ Service Pack 3 Done Give Me The Blues♬♬"
Blog I went ahead and installed SP3 with Windows Update on-line on top of all that crap. I''ll bet you a box of donuts that the combination of the WGA crap and a late update to Windows Installer is what kills SP3 as a complete install.
[June 17, 2008, 1:44]
Lights Go Out For Microsoft's Anti-SP2 Tool
News Microsoft is today disabling its own software tool that prevented Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) from automatically downloading itself onto business computers. An emailed statement from Microsoft said: "On April 12th, a tool blocking the download...
[April 12, 2005, 13:00]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Something I spotted back in Windows NT 4.0 days. I just finished installing a volume license of Windows XP Pro with slipstreamed Service Pack 2 on it onto a computer for which I only had to supply a Video driver.
[June 16, 2008, 6:34]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment The "virgin" install I'm talking about, a SP1 with SP2 slip-stream, didn't have all the downloaded and prior versions of OS files in it obtained through the on-line patches UNTIL I downloaded the SP2+ 99 patches AND then let it update via Windows...
[June 18, 2008, 9:25]
Evidently There's A Rattled Cage In Redmond.
Blog The updates for SP2 included a WGA "update" and an update to Windows Update itself that was listed after most of the 90+ updates were previously installed. The original setup was a bare metal install of a volume license copy that had been...
[July 30, 2008, 0:57]
XP SP2 - At Your Service?
Talkback Let me start of by saying that Windows XP SP2 update is the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a long time. Microsoft Senior Vice President, Windows Client Group, Will Poole, who was in Bangkok to attend the ICT expo recently, an event that...
[August 25, 2004, 15:17]
Finally My Last Words On XP SP3, (yeah Right, You Hope So!)
Blog First test to be sure that your Windows XP Pro image has all the things you want in them and that they worked like you needed them to. We slip-streamed SP2 onto a volume licensed SP1 install CDROM image of Windows XP Pro.
[June 18, 2008, 19:43]
Can IT Keep Up With Malware Authors?
Talkback I am speaking as someone who is an anti-virus and email expert and has been supporting Microsoft products since the days of Windows 3.0 and who actually worked at Microsoft for 5 years as a Test Engine
[September 2, 2004, 8:43]
Microsoft Tells Businesses: It's Time For Vista
News Microsoft on Wednesday released a white paper targeted at the many businesses that have chosen to stick with Windows XP instead of moving to Vista. We have tried to close gaps for consumers, and we're doing the same for enterprises," Mike Nash...
[June 5, 2008, 13:04]
Trend Micro Customers Suffer Weekend Mayhem
News The Japan-based antivirus company has promised to compensate customers whose computers running Windows XP SP2 were disabled by the update. This damn update took down virtually all 1,500 of our Windows XP SP2 PCs and required many hours of work to...
[April 25, 2005, 13:30]
IE Upgrade Cuts Off QuickTime
News ActiveX has been seen as a challenger to Sun Microsystems' Java programming language, which Microsoft has said will no longer be supported by default in its pending Windows XP operating system and IE 6.
[August 16, 2001, 9:38]
Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into Windows XP as both "enlightening and frightening". At a Get Safe Online event on Monday aimed at heightening security...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Microsoft To Distribute XP SP2 On One Million CDs
News Microsoft will encourage dial-up users to update their Windows XP systems with Service Pack 2 by distributing the update on one million CDs in the UK. SP2 for Windows XP is a major upgrade for Microsoft's desktop operating system.
[July 9, 2004, 17:15]
Microsoft Aims To Increase Time Between Patches
News Microsoft would like extend its Windows patch cycle from once a month to once every six months, but only after the company is confident its customers will remain safe between the updates. However, Stathakopoulos said that as Microsoft continues to...
[November 18, 2004, 11:35]
SP2's Firewall Is Not Good Enough
Talkback Neil Roy wrote: "In fact, when I first installed SP2, I had ZoneAlarm (free version) running, SP2 detected this and it automatically DISABLED Windows Firewall. This is not a feature of Windows but a feature of Zonealarm itself.
[March 31, 2005, 7:06]
