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Win XP SP2 problem?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:34 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:59 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:19 pm
by Frances
Hi Stuart,
I'm 32-bit. I'm sure glad I didn't install that on my main computer!
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:27 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:09 am
by 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.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:33 am
by Frances
Thanks guys, I'll give it a shot.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:05 am
by 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.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:11 am
by 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 !
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:24 pm
by 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.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:25 pm
by 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
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:36 pm
by Frances
lebbeus wrote: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.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:56 pm
by lebbeus
I totally agree Frances…if only AutoCAD (and Rhino) ran on Linux or OSX
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:31 am
by 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
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:02 pm
by Frances
b-kandor wrote: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."
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:53 pm
by 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.