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Old 09-22-2004, 02:02 PM   #11
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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
Just curious Arvon; did an uninstall/reinstall of Norton's solve the SP2 problem?
Not really. But lately the problem seems to have 'gone away'. Don't ask!
The stupid error message sometimes comes up at startup, but I just 'click' the "X" at that time and I don't see it for the rest of the session. BTW the error only comes up on rare occasions.

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Old 09-22-2004, 03:40 PM   #12
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Installed on a bunch of machines, some with Norton AV 2004, some with NAV Corporate... no problems at all.
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Old 09-24-2004, 05:57 PM   #13
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My Adventure with Service Pack 2
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How I finally had a situation that called for my backup hard drive

Yesterday I got courageous and decided to install the SP2. I did. I offed the firewall, realising that it would do me much trouble, and then played around in the new features. It somehow managed to convince itself that my DSL modem drivers were infected with a virus. 'Off with their heads!' I said, thinking that it's antivirus program is better than AVG, Trend Micro and all the other. I had a doubt, but I decided to tes it out. Nope, no virus. Enter the modem instalation CD, and the windows message 'The files you are installing are infected with a virus and/or contain harmful code'. Off with SP 2. Uninstall successfull, reverting to old updates. Complete. I restarted my PC, and it froze on the 'Windows is Starting up' screen. For about fifteen minutes. What do I find when I get back in? No rundll, no installing features, no copy-paste(there was copy, but no paste), and generally half of the programs and exes in the system folder was missing. What in the name of all the lines of code on earth is this!? So, now I've finally reinstalled everything(not everything, but the bare neccesseties) and am writing this in hope someone else out there doesn't fall for it. I'll install it again someday, my adventrous spirit requires me to do something like that every 4d6 days, but I think I'll just let braver and smarter people resolve the issues before I try.

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Old 09-25-2004, 09:59 AM   #14
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i installed it and my computer logs in slow as hell, so i disabled the security center (in msconfig | services tab | security center checkbox) and it seems to run fine, some older games still don't work and i see no major improvement at all, a built in popup killer for IE and some gay security feature thing that looks like it was done in flash ans is all looks and difficult to use. I wish i'd have stuck with sp1 but i'm scared to uninstall, so i just disabled the security center and ignore that it's sp2, seems ok, no major bug fixes though, i've had a lot of programs unexplanabley crashing.
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Old 09-25-2004, 11:15 PM   #15
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I'm not sure why people are reporting slow downs or problems. Don't forget that SP2 will require more resources but if you've got decent hardware it shouldn't be a problem.

Basically anything under 2GHZ, 1GB RAM and an 8MB 133 HD and you should consider Windows 98!
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