[Frances]

I installed SP2 on one of my machines prior to installing M~R V1.1 and it has really lost performance. All of my programs are running sluggishly. I disabled the stupid firewall. I'd like to roll back to SP1. Am I going to have to reinstall XP and then SP1?

Machine specs: Dual Xeon 2.8;2GB ram; Asus PC-DL board

[glebe digital]

Yep that firewall in SP2 is a disaster, that went in the bin pronto.
Are you in 32 or 64bit? the 64bit is remarkably un-slug-like.

[Frances]

Hi Stuart,

I'm 32-bit. I'm sure glad I didn't install that on my main computer!

[ricardo]

Hi,

I have been using SP2 for a long time now, no problems... Did you run windows update again after SP2, there should be a bunch of things to install after that also.

Ricardo

[ivox3]

Fran, ...you can try what Ricardo said, and if that tanks, then just use system restore to roll back to SP1. Upon installing SP2 a natural restore point gets created, ......so it's fine.

[Frances]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a shot.

[MarkM]

Hey Fran,
I installed SP2 awhile back and had to roll back as Chris suggested. I had nothing but problems with SP2… When I installed Maxwell V1.1 all I did was updated the installer to MSI 3.1… Lets us know how you make out.

[ivox3]

Finally some more company for the Service Pack 2 Challenged.

Rock on SP1 !

To all you SP2'ers with your ' No problems over here, running fine ! fine ! fine ! ' Bah ! Pound salt !

[Frances]

I ended up rolling back to SP1. Rhino was reduced to a crawl, VIZ 2005 was comatose. I was getting flashlights searching for folders in Explorer. It was freaking me out. Things are back to normal now.

[lebbeus]

isn't MS stopping support for SP1 this fall?

I'm on SP2, no real problems here, but I keep thinking that my machine is getting slower, but I think that's more of a hardware problem

[Frances]

isn't MS stopping support for SP1 this fall?

I'm on SP2, no real problems here, but I keep thinking that my machine is getting slower, but I think that's more of a hardware problem

Maybe I should stop supporting them.

[lebbeus]

I totally agree Frances…if only AutoCAD (and Rhino) ran on Linux or OSX

[b-kandor]

Just curious - but are you guys updating an existing installation to sp2 or doing a fresh install.

I've been installing sp2 onto systems (probably about 50 or so) for over 2 years now with no trouble at all - and yes there are currently about 75mb of updates to sp2.

But if your updating an sp1 install to sp2 maybe that is what is causing the trouble?

sp2 really is fine! no fooling

[Frances]

Just curious - but are you guys updating an existing installation to sp2 or doing a fresh install.

I've been installing sp2 onto systems (probably about 50 or so) for over 2 years now with no trouble at all - and yes there are currently about 75mb of updates to sp2.

But if your updating an sp1 install to sp2 maybe that is what is causing the trouble?

sp2 really is fine! no fooling

My theory about computers is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

[b-kandor]

That's a good theory in general, but in computers it would mean I'd be still be using my amiga 2000 from 1988.