surfgatinho
MIS
I know this is the XP Pro forum but as the XP home roll out of SP2 has happened and there isn't an XP home forum I thought I'd mention my experiences.
So far I've seen SP2 completely wreck three different machines including my own.
2 of the machines were AMD based, had no previous issues with updates and got the service pack via the updater.
The other machine was my own and I downloaded the SP and installed it from the exe. Exactly the same thing - machine won't even boot past first screen. My PC was a new P4 machine with a fresh instal of XP home.
As for the unistall instructions forget it system restore doesn't work, running spuninst doesn't work properly. I found the only fix is to run a repair from the installation disk. However, now the PC boots up really slowly.
I have read other reports of problems with this SP but having experienced it 3 times I'd like to suggest some caution.
So far I've seen SP2 completely wreck three different machines including my own.
2 of the machines were AMD based, had no previous issues with updates and got the service pack via the updater.
The other machine was my own and I downloaded the SP and installed it from the exe. Exactly the same thing - machine won't even boot past first screen. My PC was a new P4 machine with a fresh instal of XP home.
As for the unistall instructions forget it system restore doesn't work, running spuninst doesn't work properly. I found the only fix is to run a repair from the installation disk. However, now the PC boots up really slowly.
I have read other reports of problems with this SP but having experienced it 3 times I'd like to suggest some caution.