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    Posted: 28 October 2004 at 12:00pm

The other day this icon came up on my screen that said Windows had downloaded an upgrade called service Pack II. When I checked it out it said it held some critical stuff so I installed it regardless of the fact that each time I had installed one of their upgrades it made my computer slower. Well, when Windows made XP they decided to not put a firewall in it. This new Service pack II had a firewall. That firewall and my other firewall didn't like each other and kept conflcting and making my browser slow. So, angry at this stupid upgrade I went to System Restore to get rid of Service Pack II. When the computer restarted Windos crashed and I lost all my work including a 10 page short story in progress and tons of research papers. We had to wipe the hardrive and reinstall Windows.

Anyone else have similar issues?



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You should know better then to trust an "update" from microsoft. Thats happened to about a billion people now.
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Incuding my brother, even though i told him NOT to install it, he did anyway, that moron...
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apple's updates actually work. 

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Anybody have Linux on their computer? Does it work alot better than Windows?
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SP2 works great for me, XP is now more stable and slightly faster. Of course I turned the dumb firewall off.

And another thing, you should never use system restore, because it breaks things instead of fixing them

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i have never had a problem with my windows updates?

then again i never had an internal firewall i allways used my network firewall.
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I've never had a problem with the updates, either... Of course you don't use the built in firewall, though...
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Originally posted by MROD MROD wrote:

Anybody have Linux on their computer? Does it work alot better than Windows?


No it doesnt.
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Yeah... You gotta love OSX. It's a heck of a reliable paperweight.

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Originally posted by SandMan SandMan wrote:

Yeah... You gotta love OSX. It's a heck of a reliable paperweight.



At least I don't have to configure my paperweight out the wazoo, or deal with it crashing.
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I had Service Pack 2 installed and it actually works really good and when you go to websites that install spyware without you knowing, it prompts and asks if you want to install and then the name of whatever it is. Thus my PC has been saved from spyware many a time from it.
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This may sound dumb but you should of tried a knoppix live cd to get your documents.

And I have sp2 and it doesnt bother me at all.

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Originally posted by MROD MROD wrote:

Anybody have Linux on their computer? Does it work alot better than Windows?


I think I'm one of the forums only strictly Linux users left. I know patrick and tom (Hairball) used to use linux. And a few of the people on IRC have tried it and can manage getting around in it.

As far as working better than Windows, that all depends on your definition of "Better". Stability wise, Linux is about as stable as they come. Alot of web servers run Linux for the fact that they can stay up for hundreds of days at a time. As far as funtionality, anything you can do in Windows for the most part can be done on Linux. Exept for games. As with Mac, games aren't ported to Linux as much as they are made for Windows.

The only difference is you actually have to do stuff to get it up and running. Compile software from source rather than just opening a .exe.

IMO, learning is part of the fun, as well as the aggrivation of Linux. I am a proud user of Slackware Linux 10.0.

If you choose to install Linux, don't PM me for help. I've been there and done that with too many people. There is plenty of documentation on it to get you on your feet. K. Thx. Bye.
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if you can't use windows right... you shouldn't own a comp.

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Originally posted by ItalianoGuy04 ItalianoGuy04 wrote:

if you can't use windows right... you shouldn't own a comp.


See... Now that's just dumb.
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Okay, so I've come to the conclusion that System Restore was part of the problem. Mental note: never use that again.

Originally posted by ItalianoGuy04 ItalianoGuy04 wrote:

if you can't use windows right... you shouldn't own a comp.

HAHA you're so funny. It's not that I didn't use windows right it's that I listened to Windows and did what it said supposidly works.
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um. Sp2 sucks. Windows is now more involved and "Caring" about your pc's spyware and update and stuff, as if they're going to release another service pack anytime soon.. just turn the firewall on, and the icon in startup will stop popping up all the time. it doesn't do much anyway, its made by windows..
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