SP2 - has arrived
Service Pack 2 (SP2) came out after midnight and you know who has it downloaded and saved to the hard drive. I will burn it to CD later this morning for back up. I started the download at 2:00 and just my luck there was a thunderstorm moving through. Yep the power just blinked off for a second but it was enough to foil the download. I started again at 2:10 and at 2:30 I had the 266 Meg SP2 on the drive. You must be a little bit of a geek to download it, as Bill wants you to install it online for some whacked out reason.
Believe it or not the install took longer than the download, about a 30-minute process. After the install and restart you are presented with a set-up splash page that offers to turn on a firewall. It told me I was using Norton AV and advised me to keep it updated. There was a button to set the security level also.
I see no ill effects from the upgrade. This comes as a surprise because all the big guru boys were saying, “don’t do it, wait”. The only change I can see so far was the Windows Media Player 9 had to be re-configured, not a big deal.
If any quirks pop up I’ll let you know but so far it looks good. I am not going to install it on my other computers till I trust it fully. This will be a few days down the road.
If you are on a dial-up ISP please remember it is 266 Meg. I dought that you would want to try the upgrade on line. Order the CD or get someone that has broadband to download it, then burn it to CD for you.
Believe it or not the install took longer than the download, about a 30-minute process. After the install and restart you are presented with a set-up splash page that offers to turn on a firewall. It told me I was using Norton AV and advised me to keep it updated. There was a button to set the security level also.
I see no ill effects from the upgrade. This comes as a surprise because all the big guru boys were saying, “don’t do it, wait”. The only change I can see so far was the Windows Media Player 9 had to be re-configured, not a big deal.
If any quirks pop up I’ll let you know but so far it looks good. I am not going to install it on my other computers till I trust it fully. This will be a few days down the road.
If you are on a dial-up ISP please remember it is 266 Meg. I dought that you would want to try the upgrade on line. Order the CD or get someone that has broadband to download it, then burn it to CD for you.