[PCTECH] XP SP2 Experience Report

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI,

Mark Phippard posted the following to the WDSCI list earlier today.  Since I
thought it would have interest here and since he is not a member of this
list, I asked for and received permission to cross post it here:

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I installed XP SP2 today.

There has been a lot of doom and gloom about it in the media, but I have not
had any problems.  It seems to handle the new features in a fairly
user-friendly way.  For example, when I started WDSC, it warned me that the
firewall was going to block some of its features and I had a button to press
to unblock it.  I think I only got this message because I have a third party
plugin installed that starts up a socket listener within WDSC.  You will
probably not get that message at all.   A couple of other apps I use like
SharpReader had the same warning.  It appears to be programs that have
socket listeners, which makes sense.

I have also not had any problems with IE and any of my sites.  I normally
use FireFox so I will not be testing any sites other than my own, but I did
not have any problems.  The process of downloading files (like PDF) was
actually smoother in my opinion.

So basically, at the moment all is well.  I have not seen any problems at
all.

Hope this helps.

Mark