XP Service Pack + strange boots.

Konstantin K · Post by **Konstantin K** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:11 pm

Since I put Serivce pack 2 on my XP Pro machine, every time someone else logs on, I get logged off, kicked off automatically. Whatever I am doing.

This is tested on 3 different machines.

Computers that do not have XP Pro Service pack 2 - do not do this.

Try to check it out in the server code please.

Soon, everyone will SP2, and this problem will cause many char deaths.

Thank you.

Aryllis · Post by **Aryllis** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:00 pm

Hmmm..maybe you should deactivate the integrated Firewall......

I updated my machine without problems....

Aryllis

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:37 pm

This is why you don't install SP2. It causes more problems than it fixes. Never trust software from microsoft.

Aryllis · Post by **Aryllis** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:08 pm

Grobul,which OP do you use? Linux?

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:43 am

Aryllis wrote:Grobul,which OP do you use? Linux?

OP? You mean OS? I use windows xp. If I get a new comp I am thinking about getting a mac though, they are better for cgi.

Avaloner · Post by **Avaloner** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:50 am

Finally somone with a brain here

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Never ever use the Servis packs from microsoft just stay by the plain xp prof. and you get much less trouble with viruses and worms ,than doing a upgrade and get much more bugs than it fix.

Edit: did i said that my F-button is kinda defect?..ohh and having a brain..wasn't pointed at anyone and surely not on me

martin · Post by **martin** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:58 am

Avaloner wrote:inally somoen with a brain here .

*ROTFL*

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:44 pm

I'm using SP2 too, without any problems (except the problem named Windows

). I have windows firewall switched off though. My router offers more safety then then security-hole pack 2.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:59 pm

May seem a stupid question but how do you know it's when someone else logs on? Have you a program running in the background that tells you?

Rackere Diplomatre · Post by **Rackere Diplomatre** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:37 pm

I agree to Adano.

Konstantin K · Post by **Konstantin K** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:36 am

Okay, I apologize, but I'm gonna start cussing!

The damn SP2 totally fucked up my machine. I installed one of those KB83700... whatever critical updates to SP2, rebooted, and found myself with a fucked registry file.

Wonderful picture:

Your PC reboots, then you get a blue screen, and a line flickers for 0.5 seconds, your eye can barely read the message line before it disappears. Then PC reboots itself and repeats, repeats, repeats. Took me 30 reboots to get my eye to read the error.

Stop: C0000135 {unable to locate component}
This application failed to start because of missing... - then the error flashes out.

And reboots, reboots, reboots.

Panic.

Panic lasts 10 minutes.

My last document backup is 4 months old!

Get on my laptop (emergency machine), hook up the dial up modem, go to Google.

Look up C0000135 error.

After going through many, MANY solutions to the problem (the ones from Microsoft are the worst, btw), I find myself, trying to recover using the recovery console of Win XP CD. This fails with my machine.

Contacted tech support for my machine via live chat. They navigated me to same Google documents that I tried.

I google some more, and find hundreds of hateful opinions about the infamous Service Pack 2. I find a few good reviews, but mostly - bad.
Problems arise so often that people start to regret, and format their machines.

LUCKILY for me the file system wasn't damaged. Only the operating system.
I am now sitting at work, with my hard drive hooked up as a secondary slave to a working machine, pulling off my documents and burning them to 7 CD - RWs.
After this completes, I will go home and format c:

Hence, my friendly advice to all:

DON'T BE FOOLS, LIKE ME:

1. Always back up your documents before installing a major update.
2. Backup every month.
3. Do NOT install Service Pack 2. It sucks.
4. If you do install Service Pack 2, do not try to update it or uninstall it.

Martin was right.

I'm done.

Kasume · Post by **Kasume** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:13 pm

Windows 2000!

Lysu Davanum · Post by **Lysu Davanum** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:45 pm

I uninstalled it safely..thank GOODNESS. But...it surely sucks, I can tell you that.

Alice · Post by **Alice** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 8:58 pm

SP2 was on my computer for about five minutes. It gave me a headache because it took longer to install (and uninstall) it than it did for me to realize my mistakte.

Dónal Mason · Post by **Dónal Mason** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:24 am

I never trust microsoft, I wait until some other poor saps have fallen to the evil that is....MICROSOFT UPGRADES!

Armil Darken · Post by **Armil Darken** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:56 am

I put it on there... But quick disabled all the so called "New features" theyre horrid... but eventually you will need the core rewrite for windows xp...(It is useful btw, and fixes many security vulnerabilities) if you go to the management console you can disable all the new services that come with it. Overall now... my machine runs faster... and just as stable. no new problems. Just a bit of an inconvienience disabling the newe "features"

Also. IE's new security is so horribly wrong. I'm glad i use mozilla... i hate all my schools computers that have sp2 and IE its such a hassles.