Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) - Should I Install it?

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The Yamaha site is the place to go. I'm certain that message was a warning, not a failure, and you should be able to install the Yamaha drivers anyway. But again, getting info from Yamaha is the place to go.

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Can't download Win Service Pack 2 for some reason and couldn't even install it from a disc. Now I can't join a flight sim 2002 game since trying to get SP2. Can anyone help. Using XP PRO.

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Pat

I can't believe that Microsoft has released Service Pack 2, and that it prompts you to download it automatically. If you don't have a brand new computer that came with Windows XP with SP2 included, DON'T INSTALL IT. Last year, before I got a new notebook pc, I tried installing SP2 hundreds of times. Every time I installed it, I had to whipe off my entire hard drive and go back to XP without SP2. I just gave up on installing it on my desktop, because it royally screws up the whole thing. Nothing is wrong with that computer. The only thing that is wrong is Service Pack 2. I definitely do not recommend installing it on computers made before late 2004. It either works, or it completely screws up the computer that it's installed on.

I recently installed XP SP2, had many problems, and have spent almost 2 weeks on phone with Adelphia techs (who were excellent by the way) since they thought it might be something to do with their Freedom software.

But anyway my search does not work, Outlook does not work, links in emails don't work. This is first time in 11 years of home computing that I have ever had a problem. Adelphia found out that some files have been corrupted and I will have to reformat my drive and do a destructive restore.

Why in heavens name can't Microsoft get their act together. This is disgraceful!

I installed SP2 and it made my computer crash and very sluggish. It is the only update I won't install. I think I am better off with my own virus scanner, spyware, and firewall.

I installed service pack 2 and now my laptop refuses to recognise the in-built speakers. It only allows me to select blue tooth speakers, which considering i only have a blue tooth dongle and that wasn't attached when i installed sp2 is rather odd. Any idea of how to get it to recognise the inbuilt speakers and hence get them to appear on the drop-down audio menu?

After installation of Windows XP SP2, the computer (Compaq Presario laptop R300) could not boot. Restarted in safe mode and went back to yesterday's restore point, and at the moment all seems to be well.

I upgraded to sp2 and my computer was moving ok for 2wks then over the weekend i get the dreaded (BLUE SCREEN) tell me there is some error with the win32k.sys file then it restarted, then i logged in only for the (BLUE SCREEN ) to come of aain saying Bad_pool_area error so ir restarted again , to my surprise after the windows logo shows for the log on screen to come up the monitor goes blank,i tried restarting a million times but have to be running in safe mode. What do anyone suggest i do?

I installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 for the Home Edition. I got greedy and decided I wanted to install the Windows Professional embedded Service Pack 2. To my horror, alot of my programs are no longer functional. My computer is sluggish, and the security has gone downhill. Where I had no invasions of viruss, or warnings, ever since the install, I've had nothing but problems Galore. I agree about MIcros*it. They Monopolize the market with their junk software updates, and then take no responsibility when their software kills our computers. I''ve got a serious hate on for Micros*it. And I'd like to thank them for destroying thousands of dollars of software.

What a mess! Search doesn't work. The debugger in Visual Interdev doesn't work. The computer isn't recognized by MS software on the network (e.g., Windows Explorer, though ping, tracert work fine). I've spent days fixing or working around problem after problem. Back to W2K Pro! XP was bad (I was on SP1), but this is a disaster. I thought by waiting long enough, most problems would be fixed. Wrong.

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