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Does Anyone Else Get The Problem that once this is installed if you switch users and try to log on assomeone else the pc restarts?

Anyone had problems with burning CD-r from windows media 10 some of the disc`s burned from MP3 and wma will not play on std CD player, not had this prior to upgrading XP to service pack 2 >:(

Should I delete service pack 2????

I had nothing but problems with service pack2 until it just crashed my computer alltogether,so i uninstalled service pack2 + went back to service pack1 and had no trouble at all since... if i was you i would bin it, its more trouble than it is worth imo

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I had nothing but problems with service pack2 until it just crashed my computer alltogether,so i uninstalled service pack2 + went back to service pack1 and had no trouble at all since... if i was you i would bin it, its more trouble than it is worth imo


Hear hear! It is waste of time if you already have anti virus and firewall protection.



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Same here, tried it, uninstalled it. A bag of shi*e. Never had any problems with SP1 anyway, not really sure why I bothered with SP2 in the first place. :-/

Sam.

The problems you are having aren`t because of SP2 perse, but with programs that won`t run properly with it without an update.

Running without SP2 is like riding a motor bike with no crash helmet on-It plugs so many more `holes` than sp1.

I`ve installed SP2 on over 30 machines now, all of them run perfectly and are a darn site more secure.

SP1 plugs secruity gaps in Internet Explorer more than anything else, so Firefox fans can breathe easy :)

I did try to install it (has some on-chip virus protection for my Athlon 64 apparently) but the CD M$ sent me is dud and I`m too lazy to d/l it.

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I`ve installed SP2 on over 30 machines now, all of them run perfectly and are a darn site more secure.

I agree totally. I`ve installed it on 5-6 PCs (all different makes/configurations) with no "real" problems on any of them.

What a lot of people perceive as bugs, are really just problems with SP2 not being configured properly (e.g. cookies aren`t enabled for a web site), or using software that isn`t XP compatible.

I don`t work for Microsoft, but I do feel that they can`t win sometimes.

A lot of people moaned that XP was unsecure. So they bring out a more secure version & then everybody moans that it`s not as simple/user friendly as before.

What did they expect :p

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Does Anyone Else Get The Problem that once this is installed if you switch users and try to log on assomeone else the pc restarts?
I haven`t had this problem, but I would guess it`s something in the start up for the "other" user that causing the crash (maybe a program that`s not XP compatible)

Try creating a new user (which does not run anything at start up) & see if that has the same problem.

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Anyone had problems with burning CD-r from windows media 10 some of the disc`s burned from MP3 and wma will not play on std CD player, not had this prior to upgrading XP to service pack 2
Again, no I haven`t had this problem. I suspect it`s more likely to be your CD-Rs that are the problem (if it was a setting in SP2, I`d expect every CD to be duff, not just some of them)

Do the CDs play on your PC? If they do then check that you`re creating "audio CDs" and not "data CDs"

This item was edited on Monday, 24th January 2005, 17:07