Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2

All I have to say is I'm not sure SP2 is worth all these potential program problems. Have BBS's upgraders experienced these problems?

 

The software vendors are going thru a process of updating their software for SP2 - NAV for example is one.

Have read that SP2 has tightened performance standards and that a great many software vendors got away with sloppy coding. That's what is going to have to change.

It is the MS dog that wags the software tail in this case

Regards - Charles

 

If true, I may go for it. I don't plan to use XP's firewall. Thanks for the info.

 

Thanks Pete...

Noticed some of them are programs we use here at work. Just passed on the link to the rest of the guys in IT I work with.

Sounds like I'm going to have to do some more testing before rolling out to the users.

Thanks again,

 

Does anybody beside me think it's sorta funny that the largest list of apps that may have problems with SP2 (48 of them) are Microsoft programs?

That being said, I have several of the 'may be affected' apps on XP-pro and they are perfectly happy with SP2.

 

Same here. Note, if you read the whole page you'll see this.

This must be the case for me. The only glitch I've noticed in any of the programs I have is in ZA. It's not really a problem (as far as I'm concerned) but XP's health center sees that it's installed but can't tell if it's active or not. Big deal. I know it is so..... I suspect there will be an update for this in the near future. There may be already; I haven't checked to see. It's not a worry for me.

As a sidenote, I have found one program that no longer works (but it's not in the list). I use a program called Surfsaver for saving webpages. I just tried using it tonight and received a script error of some sort and the program wouldn't work. I found that I can still save webpages but can't view them with it. Never had the problem before SP2. If that's the worst of my problems I think I can consider myself lucky. Guess I'll have to check for an update.

 

I noticed eTrust and KPF on that list. Anyone here using eTrust and KPF with SP 2? How do they get along?

 

LOL

Regards - Charles

 

I'm using eTrust. Haven't had any problems with it at all. XP's new health center sees it and says it's up to date. Not much else I can say.

 

Well, just started the testing at work. Installed SP2 first thing this morning on my work PC and knock on wood (or my head) all programs are working without any problems.

WRQ Reflection X 10.0 => No issues so far
Symantec Antivirus Corp Ed => No issues so far
MSOffice 2003 (including Outlook 2003) => No issues so far
Symantec pcAnywhere 10.5 => No issues so far

THe next step is to test the MS Visual programs...

 

Nice to see your work is up to date with software Kent.

Mine still runs W2K SP2-4, Office 2000 and a plethora of other software that is rarely updated.
But I guess with 5300 desktops, 875 Laptops, 150+ servers, 43 Macs ( )
and these are just the IT supported ones, it's big and expensive business updating software.

We may start going to XP SP2 when the next lot of PC's are replaced at the end of their 3 year lease, later this year. That's after the extensive testing period.

So we will be running W2K on many PC for at least another 3+ years!

I'm busy enough with 4 OS's at home.

 

Hi Paul...

Most of our 500+ users are WinNT 4.0 SP6a which we are slowly migrating over to WinXP SP1 and now SP2 if the testing goes well. The rest are already at WinXP SP1 so they will get updated after testing phase.

43 MACs woohoo We used to have 1 but it has gone to puter heaven.

 

I just saw on this site in Google News that the update will be available on the auto-update thing TODAY! I thought it wasn't going to be out til next month.

 

While you always expect problems from a Microsoft update , maybe most of the problem with SP2 aren't as major as they seem. Most of the problems seem to be related to the new *improved* Windows Firewall (previously known as ICF). The firewall is *on* by default when you install it, and a large number of the reported problems have to do with certain programs not being able to connect to a network or the internet because the required ports are closed. See this article for more info... GO HERE

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What a bummer. Some of the world's most popular programs. Be interesting to know what causes the bugs in Zonealarm & Norton.

 

I just d/l'd SP-2 and Windows Firewall did not activate so far as I can tell. It puts an icon in Control Panel than, when I click on it, says not activated.
I'm running Zone Alarm Pro which, I suppose, is taking control???????anyway, ZA seems to be working normally. Diskeeper tried to defrag during install but errored out but is running a normal defrag now.

Other than a slow re-boot I can't see any problems right now with SP-2. I'll keep ya posted.