Wasim Posted June 20, 2004 Posted June 20, 2004 Hey all.Has anyone else installed the RC2 release of SP2. i downloaded from mircosofts new v5 update site and so far the service pack has been good with my pc. there has been no errors apart from the 'security centre' advising me to install a antivirus software.The firewall handle very well and the popblocker is great, i havent com across one pop up yet (reason might be i only browse a few sites).All in all the SP2 has returned no errors. I posted this thread to find out, if other people who have installed SP2, have had no problems so far with it.
crck3rz Posted June 20, 2004 Posted June 20, 2004 The only problem I discovered was couldn't access add & remove windows components in control panel so that i could remove messenger. still i'm sure it will be sorted, otherwise messenger will not be included in setup files when i create a new Unattended XP CD.Like you the security centre issue doesn't recognise Norton.Popup Blocker, Bit annoying really. While i was desgining my website it blocked the clock on it bcos its an activex control that needs to access the pc to get the current time and date -
ratts Posted June 21, 2004 Posted June 21, 2004 the only flaw i have is that it RUINED my themes. i cannot change themes to even classic windows appearence. i have tried everything that i could come up with to fix it but cant. i am stuck with a baby blue looking theme and its disturbing. sniff...sniff..... other than that the firewall works wonders, pop-up blocker even blocked microsoft stuff so its working awefully well to. i would give this sp2 a A+ but i cant. it ruined my uxtheme.dll file and/or something else.
Wasim Posted June 21, 2004 Author Posted June 21, 2004 aha my uxthemes have got bust as well. cant use the panther osx theme
ratts Posted June 21, 2004 Posted June 21, 2004 well it wouldnt be so bad if it just kept me from patching the uxtheme.dll file with a patch. if i even tried to change anything in display properties that has to do with screensavers, themes, appearence, icons, etc.... i would get run_dll errors and system would lock up and then flash back to my baby blue looking theme. i might have been able to fix by reinstalling gart and display driver but nahhhhh. sp2 caused such enough hassle with a running system that it got UNINSTALLED until i do a fresh install. everthing is back to order now since i uninstalled from add/remove. sorry microsoft, but gotta have my themes..........i am sliptreaming it though........so, hopefully this is the standard sp2.
crck3rz Posted June 21, 2004 Posted June 21, 2004 Although I like this release it dows work a little to well like someone else said. As for themes, i am not having a problem but having said that i replaced uxtheme.dll with a patched uxtheme.dll
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