200 Apps Broken By XP SP2

[gitreel]

I found this at the register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/17/xp_sp2_glitches/

200 apps clash with XP SP2
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 17th August 2004 13:12 GMT

Consumers will be offered a major upgrade of Windows XP after Microsoft releases Service Pack 2 through Windows Update later this week.

The 272MB enterprise version of SP2 was released earlier this month and a smaller consumer version - weighing in at around 80MB - was due to be released via Windows Update yesterday (16 August), the BBC reports. This automatic delivery has now been put back until tomorrow (18 August). SP2 was due to debut last year so a couple of extra days wait is hardly going to make much difference.

The release, which made its debut as a beta back in March, bundles major security revisions and a new Windows update procedure. Principal additions with Windows XP SP2 include: Windows Security Centre; automatically turning on Windows Firewall; and browsing enhancements to Internet Explorer (providing far more control of ActiveX controls, for example). Less mentioned so far, but arguably more important, is revamped memory protection to prevent buffer overruns, the perennial source of so many security problems.

Consumers should note that some programs will 'stop working' after they install Windows XP Service Pack 2. With SP2, Windows Firewall is enabled by default and will block unsolicited connections to your computer. So users will have to make exceptions in the case on AV software, network games and a variety of other popular packages (including some published by Microsoft). Microsoft has published a list here.

This factor is there by design so it's of greater concern that a number of different applications "behave differently" after users install Win XP SP2. Games, third party firewall products and several popular business programs clash with Win XP SP2. The extensive list includes games like Unreal Tournament, McAfee VirusScan 7, Adobe PageMaker 7, backup programs, Zone Alarm personal firewall and even some flavours of Microsoft's own Office applications. More than 200 applications with compatibility problems with Win XP SP2 are listed.

These glitches are far wider in scope than the occasional problems that surface when users install personal firewalls. And it's not just shrink-wrapped applications that are affected.

eBay has posted a notice saying that some of the features of its eBay Toolbar program will cease to function after users install SP2. Meanwhile XP SP2 users are completely locked out of eBay's Enhanced Picture Services. eBay is working with Microsoft on addressing the problems it has unearthed.

Little wonder then that companies like IBM are holding off from deploying SP2 despite the considerable security improvements it offers. Consumers might well be inclined to follow suit. Those who push ahead with XP SP2 are advised to buckle in for what promises to be a bumpy ride.

[808smokey]

I wish I knew how to use Linux.

Microsoft is retarded. Why would you make a Program update that screws up everything you have on an otherwise good working computer?? If it ain't broke, don't fix it?? I know there's a lot of security issues and what not but c'mon fix it right the first time. This happend when they released windows 95, it crashed 99% of the computers in my neighboorhood. I'm waiting til the update for the the SP2 update comes out before I install it.

[Hardcoreruss]

As am I

[Craig Tucker]

I think I will wait for the updates to the updates for the sp2 update. This could go on forever

[Hardcoreruss]

Indeed ourobourus or however you say it.

[Craig Tucker]

Isn't that the northern lights

[Hardcoreruss]

God knows what I am talking about, in hindsight is that not in a Red Dwarf episode?

[Craig Tucker]

I was being facisious, aurora borealis - northern lights, sounds similar to ourobourus, which I believe is the serpant eating its own tail. So you knew what you were talking about

And yes it was an episode in the seventh series.

[ViRaL1]

I wish I knew how to use Linux.

There are tons of different free distributions of Linux available online and most will work with minimal configurations if you have an older maching that's not beinng put to much use, as well as being able to dual boot with Window$ if you're daring and want to try it on your main PC. Check out...

http://www.linux.org/

and see if you can find one that suits your needs.

Like they say 'ain't nothin to it but to do it.'

[gitreel]

I wish I knew how to use Linux.

There are tons of different free distributions of Linux available online and most will work with minimal configurations if you have an older maching that's not beinng put to much use, as well as being able to dual boot with Window$ if you're daring and want to try it on your main PC. Check out...

http://www.linux.org/

and see if you can find one that suits your needs.

Like they say 'ain't nothin to it but to do it.'

I have a Fedora Core 2/Windows Xp dual boot system.

[Greg12]

The windows firewall seems to be an issue.

[gitreel]

disable it

[HillJack]

I don't get it. Anybody with enough smarts to find and download SP2 should have the brains needed to know not to be online without a decent firewall or behind a good old fashioned router w/NAT along with a good virus scanner. Yet, people are whining about SP2 breaking programs, yet others still install it?

The only good thing I can see SP2 brings to the table is the new memory protection, which 95% of the PC's out there don't support anyway.

The people who need SP2 and all the fruity fluffy b.s. it adds are the dumb shits that are online without a firewall, have no virus protection and whatever else it takes for people to get themselves f**ked up with spyware and other b.s. You know, the people who "drive" and talk on their cellphone at the same time.

Until MS stops offering individual patches and makes people download the SP's only, SP2 will come nowhere near any of my boxes.

Unless SP2 is actually fixing something you're having a problem with, why go through all the b.s. with it? You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Just my 2 cents.

[gitreel]

I don't get it. Anybody with enough smarts to find and download SP2 should have the brains needed to know not to be online without a decent firewall or behind a good old fashioned router w/NAT along with a good virus scanner. Yet, people are whining about SP2 breaking programs, yet others still install it?

The only good thing I can see SP2 brings to the table is the new memory protection, which 95% of the PC's out there don't support anyway.

The people who need SP2 and all the fruity fluffy b.s. it adds are the dumb shits that are online without a firewall, have no virus protection and whatever else it takes for people to get themselves f**ked up with spyware and other b.s. You know, the people who "drive" and talk on their cellphone at the same time.

Until MS stops offering individual patches and makes people download the SP's only, SP2 will come nowhere near any of my boxes.

Unless SP2 is actually fixing something you're having a problem with, why go through all the b.s. with it?

Just my 2 cents.

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Because it plugs security holes.

I know what I am doing. I use a firewall and a virusscanner and I run sp2.

I am also a tech running sp2 so what is your point.

I am just reporting the news.

[ViRaL1]

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¿Que?

[gitreel]

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