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268693	2004-12-28 22:40:00	Not Just SP2, but XP Woes I find myself asking the very real question: “when is newer no better?” After my wife’s Win95 machine died, my Win98SE PC got moved to her desk and I got the replacement. (No, I’m not mean - I use mine daily, she: weekly - if that). At the same time ADSL was installed. I told the supplier to dump XP and put 98SE on the new machine. He did so, with reservations. He may have been right in his surmise that 98SE would struggle with the hardware changes. After 10 days of trying and experiencing a number of problems, XP was installed. The OEM disc included SP2. With all the costs of the tech calls to resolve something that really should not have been a problem. Why is it that the OS changes are not really improvements but something else - something vexing? How I hate change for the sake of change. It’s excessively time-consuming. All I wanted to do was carry-on (with the new PC) where I left off on the old machine, doing what I always did with what I always did it with. Or very close. An example: I use Quicken. When I did the daily back up on Win98, the CD-RW was “just another drive” and Quicken was quite happy to write it’s back-up files thereon. I.e. with a pre-formatted CD, reading and writing, by either explorer or an application was as straightforward as a 3.5 floppy. But no longer. Quicken won’t have anything to do with the CD-RW. And Explorer wont treat it is as “just another drive.” Instead, be it Nero or whatever, I get confronted with all sorts of “projects,” or XP tells me there are files waiting to be written to the CD, (didn’t I just write them a few minutes ago?) which is then R/O and can’t be written to by another CD-RW and other frustrating failings. This is not progress. All I want is a CD-RW drive - honest! As a test, I wrote this on my ‘old’ PC, saved it to a data CD, took it to the XP machine, which would only open it as R/O. That seems to confirm that the ‘normal’ CD-RW drive functionality has been crippled by XP. After fossicking around the WWW last night, I gained the impression that XP actually does prevent the CD-RW being used as a drive (in the sense that Win98 did). Is that really true? Is this just another case of - in an effort to “make things easy for everyone” - MS has found yet another way to p**s off people who do have functional brains? Is linux any better at avoiding issues like this? Even if I can get the applications that I want for it? I almost fondly recall ye olde first PC - 8 bit processor running @ 4Hz with a 1200/75 pulse-dial modem. (300 baud full duplex and no GUI). Almost. Perry	Perry (4966)
268694	2004-12-28 23:32:00	Possible Problem Solver? Lates News! Microsoft Corrects CD Burning Flaw in XP: Microsoft posted a new patch to correct some of the problems that has occur when burning CDs under Windows XP. SYMPTOMS - When you copy files or folders to a compact disc-recordable, the CD can become unreadable and individual files are sometimes lost When you add files or folders to a disc that already contains data, some files are lost. Occasionally, the disc will work fine under XP, but not older versions of Windows or external CD players. Microsoft recommends Windows XP users download the patch and is expected to post it on Windows Update next week. The patch is currently available at Microsoft's Download Center. More information on the flaw and possibly symptoms may be found at support.microsoft.com. Microsoft recommends Windows XP users install the patch and is expected to post it on Windows Update next week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just imagine the product recall hassles and costs if MS made cars!!!! Perry	Perry (4966)
268695	2004-12-28 23:51:00	Sorry I couldn't find a date, so I looked further. It seems that the problem fix described is well over a year old - despite the "Latest News" title and has probably been overtaken by the SPs issued since then. Perry	Perry (4966)
268696	2005-03-02 03:14:00	Solved the slow shutdown by turning off automatic updates. Just do them manually now.	katharinem (3459)
268697	2005-03-02 08:50:00	As I mentioned earlier on in my past thread, I have problems with SP2. I am using Dell pc, 3GHz with HT, 512 MB DDR RAM. Brand new pc. I had tried installing SP2 for 2 times, but both rather unsuccessfully. The first time I installed SP2 the problem is that my pc runs at a slow speed, (took me significant extra time to startup and shut down after installing and rebooting) after installing and I find that the security center is rather strict (disabling javascript?). I the decided to use System Restore to go back to the state when I haven't install SP2 The second time is that I had performed a clean up for my pc before installing. I had used McAfee Stinger, AVG 7, Avast, as well as defrag my hard disc. I then proceed on installing SP2 and after rebooting, I found that Windows Explorer couldn't be load. But I suspect the reason is that it had loaded explorer.exe instead of my own personal explorerpolygamy.exe Thus, conflict occured. :mad: Anyway, I decided not to use SP2 anymore.	Renmoo (66)
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