Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ WINXP SP2

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6...935-SP2-ENU.exe

Thank you

Maggietobias

thanks for the link.

Hey all, here is another link:

[CODE]hxxp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en[QUOTE]

Regards,

ZoyOff

There are a lot of sites that have this service pack now. As a precaution you might want to make sure the MD5 (checksum verifier) matches.....just in case there's a rogue variant around.

From neowin.net: "WinXP SP2 Build 2180 Final. Please ensure you check this file with an MD5 checksum verifier to ensure it's authenticity. The MD5 you should get for the exe is:

59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7

I verified the download from M$ to have the same MD5 as I got the other day from a different download site:

59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7

You can find the MD5 for Win32 program (zip file is only 56K) at

hxxp://digestit.kennethballard.com/download.html

After you install it, you right click on the file name to get the checksum confirmation (it shows up as "Hash File" on the right click menu).

captbics

This post has been edited by captbics: Aug 11 2004, 01:10 PM

Thanks for the links guys,

Since this is now an official freely available download from M$, I'm going to move this one to the news section.

Bear

Thank you.

Now SP2 is available at M$ home.
I just downloaded from artzelda link and
check MD5-59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7.

It is easy to use MD5 for Win32.
Install it and then right mouse button click SP2 file.

If this is the final realease of SP2 I'm not impressed! Microsoft broke the system tray's ability to hide inactive icons, the built in Pop-Up blocker can't be completely disabled and interferes with 3rd party Pop-Up blockers like Pop-Up Cop, which is superior to anything produced by Microsoft. :grrr:

Hmm, can't say I've ever liked that "feature" anyways. Everything else seems to work just fine for me. I don't use IE either so no worries about a pop-up blocker. Everything else works just frelling fine.

Running SP2 here and having no problems whatsoever with it.

My inactive icons/system tray are working fine, I turned off the pop-up blocker no probs, but I use ad-muncher for that anyway.

All in all, I would say I was very pleased with it.

Ive had that problem with the original XP so I dont think its the SP2. You just gota play around with it a bit "disable,enable,disable,reboot,enable"

I figured out how to fix the system tray problem, but I found a couple of apps that don't work with SP2. :thumbsdown:


1. MSGTAG is a utility that plugs into your email client and tags all your messages so you get notifications when your email is opened by the recipient. It can't connect to the SMTP server after installing SP2.

2. mIRC, keep getting " Unable to connect to server (Software caused connection abort)" on every server I try to connect to. :grrr:

This post has been edited by dewey999: Aug 16 2004, 02:09 AM

WinXP SP2 doesn't do anything like Activation or CD-key check?
I donwloaded but I don''t deploy it yet.

That just sounds like the default settings for the updated Firewall are blocking them.... Look into the firewall settings and adjust to suit.

I heard that SP2 will make windows update unusable if using a corp key that is not listed with them.