RE: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

<sigh>  All this has been well known in advace of the full release of SP2.
M$ and many third party application developers have been discussing this
openly, it's been on CNN for gawds sake...

What's troubling is not aht many endusers are going to find this out
somewhat blindly, the real concern is that those that should have known
for sometime are now finding this out, and thinking it's something new...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ferris, Robin wrote:

> I havent heard about about this being a problem but will be testing this
> in the next few months, so thnxs for the heads up. M$ have said that SP2
> must be quote "tested, tested, tested and tested in your environment to
> see what it breaks" prior to installing it. Looks like some of Gregory
> customer got ahead of themselves! It is fairly easy to open up the
> windows firewall unlike the old ICF. So hopefully they will get it
> sorted soon.
>
> Just my 2 bobs worth
>
> RF
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> the only problem i've encountered so far is that my printer , a canon
> multipass f20 .. which has a flash card reader freezes when trying to
> view drives when i click on the 'my computer' icon ... also it freezes
> when i try to open a file from within a program using file/open.. when
> trying to get list of drives... im not sure if this is a driver problem
> with xp seeing the flash card as a drive... has anyone with usb/flash
> drives experienced this problem?
>
>
>
>
>
> --- "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Just FYI, my company is experiencing a high volume of calls from
> > customers claiming that they have installed Windows SP2.
> > Customers claim that SP2 is
> > "breaking" previously working network behavior.
> > Initial testing indicates
> > that the cause is the "Internet Firewall" settings on SP2 which have
> > been set to default closed! SO by FINALLY doing what ought to have
> > been done ages ago (as often argued in posts to this and other lists),
>
> > Microsoft has inadvertently "broken" several customer network
> > installations that got used to having transparency to network
> > protocols that, after the installation of SP2, are no longer
> > permitted.
> >
> > Yay Microsoft, you finally got it right (sort of).
> >
> > G
> >
> >
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