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| Thread ID: 48849 | 2004-09-02 23:10:00 | XP SP2 - experiences thread | Biggles (121) | Press F1 |
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| 268683 | 2004-12-06 04:30:00 | So pleased I found this forum. Had the sweetest running outfit, XP, Opera, Photoshop 7, Out Expr, Office 2000, usual stuff, no games or junk, put SP2 on - ran OK, maybe a little slower with security popups a pain in the butt. Installed Norton AV and Utilities and shortly after that had a "your system has recovered...etc" message. Couldn't find anything wrong, all running well until I restarted after an installation and the poor system couldn't restart. Just about, then away it'd go again. Waited with held breath and fingers crossed for six of these "turns" then couldn't stand it any longer and had to do the emergency push and hold to put it out of its misery. Rebooted OK next day but same thing happened. Ended up having to do an Application Recovery as I couldn't get to System restore or recovery. Anyway from reading other posts there seems to be a common thread with Norton AV/WinsXPSP2 and systems doing loop the loop. Have everything back together again but not the same as before and why does everything take so L O N G to shut down?? Have checked AV - AVG for any preshutdown scan - all turned off. Have tweaked a few registry values - waittokillapptimeout, etc values - great little article that - thanks, pcstats.com - and it still takes ages for the turn off box to appear then about another 15 minutes for the whole system to finally shut down. Interesting to see that a few people have turned off the Wins Firewall. I have Kerio which turns it off anyway. Any ideas re slow shutdown and Norton/XPSP2/loop the loop connection would be helpful. Thanks. | katharinem (3459) | ||
| 268684 | 2004-12-06 06:32:00 | May I suggest that running both Norton and AVG is not a good policy. Have just carried out a Windows XP repair which involved uninstalling and reinstalling Norton AV 2004, a warning it is a right pig. Suggest have a lookat www.symantec.com cl continue, cl Start online support, Select product, Select version, cl Contiue, cl Installation Issues, cl continue to knowledge base, type in your query, cl Search The symantec site is not the easiest one to find out info. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 268685 | 2004-12-06 08:50:00 | I find the startup to be extremely slow now. Is there a fix to make SP2 load faster? | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 268686 | 2004-12-06 09:21:00 | Sorry, site should be www.symantec.com cl Continue (under Home etc), cl Access for free online support, Select product, Select version, cl knowledge base, type in query, cl Search As I said the symantec site is not user friendly. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 268687 | 2004-12-06 21:25:00 | I forgot to say that I dumped everything to do with Norton, toute suite, and AVG was doing its own thing by itself. Will check out the symantec site. Thanks for the info. | katharinem (3459) | ||
| 268688 | 2004-12-08 02:16:00 | I have taken bull by the horns and downloaded SP2. All seems well,I see all SP1 guff has gone from add and remove,no doubt to be added to with new patches over time. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 268689 | 2004-12-08 08:00:00 | Actually, the Doze patches are now Hidden by default Tick the box up the top of Add/Remove Programs to see them |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 268690 | 2004-12-08 11:29:00 | I remember when they weren't - there were at least 30... And to update: I have now installed on at least 60 or 70 machines that have passed through my care, all without a hitch, and for one reason. Prescott. No, not the PressF1 user, but the MS patch. There is a problem that means that any Prescott based system (P4 Prescott, Celeron D) will NOT start up again after installing SP2, but hangs at MUP.sys. I now install the patch on such systems before SP2, and it has never failed me :) |
george12 (7) | ||
| 268691 | 2004-12-28 02:49:00 | Thanks for making up my mind for me, have been considering SP2 for a long time now, but after spending an hour reading these posts and have no problems, will leave it to the experts.. Ron24.. |
Ron24 (337) | ||
| 268692 | 2004-12-28 20:37:00 | gidday Bruce, pretty horrific install, HP510a 40gb HD 1.2ghz cpu, 512 Ram On restart it crashed, and I partially recovered but it was mess, so formated and restored, using the hidden partition, sp2 had fiddled with this too, system restore wouldn't work, media player went back to version 8 instead of 9, and computer was really glitchy to use, and it lost speed. found two patches on the HP web site which helped enable system restore, but I was forced to reload sp2 to try and stop the continuous glitchyness. computer is usuable, but it has lost the pace it once had, and still a small bit of glitchyness depending on the program I'm using. I'm looking to purchase a recovery cd from HP so I can format and get rid of the damm thing. cheers, Robby |
Robby (3123) | ||
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