full-disclosure - SP2 is killing me. Help?

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From: abaker at gmail.com (ASB)
Subject: SP2 is killing me. Help?

SP2 works fine, so long as people actually read the deployment docs
*prior* to installing it.

There's always going to be someone who can't install a patch or hotfix
(or the OS, for that matter)

-ASB

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:29:20 +1000 (Australia/NSW), Darren Reed
<avalon@...ro.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> In some mail from xtrecate, sie said:
> >
> > I made the mistake of installing SP2 last night, and I'm having some serious
> > issues.  Nearly every dialog box shows up blank, I am unable to set options
> > and/or access program functionality in practically every application on this
> > machine.
> 
> Windows XP SP2 has got to be up there with Windows NT 4.0 service pack 2
> in terms of crap updates, possibly even worse.  Maybe M$ are trying to
> push everyone away from Windows ?
> 
> If I recall correctly, NT4sp3 was not long after NT4sp2.
> 
> I wonder if we can expect an XPsp3 "soon" that deals with all the crap
> that XPsp2 brings upon us.
> 
> > Apparently it saved everything I need for a rollback, so I'm really looking
> > forward to doing that.  The catch:  The 'Add or Remove Programs' feature no
> > longer works.  The window appears, but is blank.
> >
> > Does anyone know of an alternate way to initiate a sp2 rollback?
> 
> Have a read of this:
> http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=23905071
> 
> Darren