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| Thread ID: 35631 | 2003-07-17 14:34:00 | Win2K SP4 - Probs anyone?? | Lohsing (219) | Press F1 |
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| 160629 | 2003-07-17 14:34:00 | I've had more bluescreens in the past few days than I have had even running 98SE . . . A search on google revealed this this . . . (cut and pasted) From the web (Tech Critic) It appears that the recently released Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000 is causing more trouble than it actually fixes things . Do not see this as an attempt to knock SP4 and tell you to not deploy it . This SP has hundreds of important security fixes, so it is important . If you are having issues you might be interested in a Microsoft KB article that lists about 33 possible updates that may be the cause for your problems . Before SP4 for Windows 2000 was released, extensive testing was performed to make sure that all the included fixes and updates worked correctly . During the time before SP4 was released, during testing, new customer-requested updates were not incorporated into SP4 . Instead, Microsoft scheduled the new customer-requested updates into a future service pack for Windows 2000 . To provide solutions to customer requests as quickly as possible, these updates were created as post-SP4 versions of hotfixes, and then released to the customers who needed them . These post-SP4 hotfixes are not included in SP4, but may be included in later service packs for Windows 2000 . Additionally, during testing of Windows 2000 SP4 before it was released, some new problems were discovered and were incorporated in SP4 . These updates and fixes will also be included in later service packs . However, it was not possible to include these updates or fixes in the post-SP4 hotfixes because they had already been distributed to the customers who requested them . With the release of Windows 2000 SP4, the post-SP4 hotfixes have now been re-created to include all necessary improvements and updates . These updated hotfixes are available to customers to upgrade post-SP4 hotfix versions so that they do not lose functionality and have no conflicts when they install SP4 for Windows 2000 or when they install updates on a computer that is running Windows 2000 SP4 . These updated hotfix versions are referenced with the same Knowledge Base article numbers that the post-SP4 versions use . View: MS Knowledge Base article W2KNews . com has put together an anecdotal problems list compiled from user problem reports . You can check that out here News source: W2S Anyone else having problems?? Lo . |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 160630 | 2003-07-17 21:04:00 | Been running it on my workstation for about 1 week now and no problems so far. I think'll wait a bit longer before I go and put it on our server! |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 160631 | 2003-07-17 21:39:00 | Thanks Loh I've downloaded it but can't help you with the BSOD's, was waiting for for comment before I installed it ;). Do you have a link to the KB article? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 160632 | 2003-07-17 22:13:00 | No worries . . . . Here I was thinking Service Packs were supposed to fix things . . . one thing I've noticed was a requirement to reinstall IE6 SP1 post Win2K SP4?? Anyway, I found this ( . w2knews . com/anecdotes . htm" target="_blank">www . w2knews . com) site which is the anectdotal problems listed by W2knews . There are several links in here too which are interesting to follow . The more I read, the less I feel I should've installed it . . . Lo . |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 160633 | 2003-07-17 22:20:00 | Installed it, then removed it. Lotus Notes 5.0.12 stopped working. Uninstalled, then all was OK. Not ready for our corporate environment, until we have more testing. |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 160634 | 2003-07-17 22:29:00 | Hi, No I have had this installed 4 weeks ago without any problems yet. Though, the patches I had to re-install were just for IE6, and Virtual Machine. Sorry to hear that. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 160635 | 2003-07-17 23:02:00 | I have it on a couple of our servers and they have been working without any problems, same goes for some workstations we patched the day sp4 cam eout. As a side node I had no problems with notes 5.0.12; either on my desktop our on the citrix servers I patched. | TerryW (2183) | ||
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