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ali wrote:
> Jeanie wrote:
>
>>> My husband is a computer tech and has it installed on all the
>>> computers he works with and has had 0 problems. I don't doubt that
>>> there are faults with it and I know many people have reported
>>> problems, but it isn't the 100% guaranteed computer death sentence
>>> that it's being portrayed as. Failing to run critical system updates
>>> as they become available seems like the bigger danger of the two
>>> because viruses tend to take advantage of known security breaches.
>>> I'd recommend to anyone who isn't sure that they give SP2 a go
>>> instead of just writing it off. Chances are that it won't destroy
>>> your computer and that it will protect you from all sorts of nasties.
>>
>>
>>
>> The first time I downloaded it, it fried my video card. I replaced it
>> and
>> reformatted. Reinstalled Windows XP without SP2 and disabled updates, as
>> per the instructions of the tech support at Dell. They said they had had
>> thousands of calls from customers who had actually had hardware
>> destroyed by
>> this program. A few weeks later, I read on various newsgroups that MS
>> had
>> fixed all the "bugs" in SP2, so I tried it again. Immediately, several
>> applications (including MS applications like MS Works) stopped
>> functioning.
>> No amount of tweaking would help. Then it killed my motherboard.
>>
>> This was an expensive lesson for me and underscored the old saying
>> "Fool me
>> once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." There won't be a third
>> time.
>>
>> I have talked to three local computer shops and they all said the same
>> thing. DON'T download SP2. In fact, one of them told me he was of the
>> opinion that MS was doing this on purpose, screwing up computers all over
>> the place so we would all line up like lemmings to buy the newest
>> version of
>> Windows, due for release before long, in order to fix the problems
>> caused by
>> this update. That particular guy went so far as to advise me to scrap MS
>> products completely and move over to Linux. I didn't do that, primarily
>> because of the Sims2, but also because my husband would never be able to
>> learn a new interface.
>>
>> Jeanie
>>
>>
>
>
> Linux is hard, even for people in the know. My hubby works with
> computers, and he had tried several different versions of Linux. He
> couldn't find one that did what he wanted it to do. There was always
> something missing, or some error he couldn't rectify. He's given up for
> now. I ran a dual boot with Linux for a while, but one day it just
> wouldn't let me into the Linux partition anymore and hubby didn't have
> time for it so I said to hell with it. It was great for the internet
> cause I didn't have to worry about viruses, but I have Norton and that
> runs constantly. The only time I turn it off is when I am running the
> Sims 2.
>
> Ali
By the way I also have SP2 installed with no problems so far.
Ali