Microsoft Releases winXP sp1

Also a good point. As a matter of fact I think I read that in one of the pc mags. Not sure
madc250

I just got the email from the webmaster about this thread. NAV 2002 discovered a file being attached containing the following:
W32Klez.H@mm. This already the second time today that NAV 2002 found something . The first time, the email came from my brother with his email.

Should we be worried. I think so.

I was just reading some of the threads about microsoft eating the cost of the SP1 CD. It is my opinion, that they would not have to "eat the cost" of the CD if they had done it right to begin with. Why so many fixes for a program just over a year old??? M$ could save money by putting all the programers on the program and haveing them find the errors before it left the plant.

I worked for a company that was trying to sell a flight simulator to the Army. The demo test was very bad and the president of the company had to eat it the hard way.

What did he do about the problems??? I spent the next 10 months running the simulator every day for 5 hours writting up all the problems I found and pointed out to the programmers. They fixed them. We should have done it the first time.

Let M$ eat it this time and maybe they will be more careful next time. LOL

Off the soap box.

Cheers mac :D

You can bank on one thing - if the Justice Dept. wasn't so far up MS's butt, there would be no SP1!!! This sure as hell wasn't done from the goodness of their hearts. I will be surprised if they make it easy for anyone to download w/o hi-speed connect - that would nullify their reason for integrating all their crap in the first place.

Just my humble opinion.

Having said that - downloaded in about 14-15 min. and installed - so far no major problems, other than giving ZA permissions all over again to allow connections of various programs. Just joyous it didn't screw up my network or cable connection. Knock on wood...

Wino, I'm sure Microsoft had a big party when Mr. Bush was elected. You know the current Justice Dept. has no intention of pursuing any actions against them. You've seen SP1 now, and do you really see anything in there that would have satisfied the Clinton Justice Department's concerns? It's more likely that Microsoft is using that as an excuse to try to get some of the people with illegal copies of XP to purchase a valid license.
If Microsoft can push this silly service pack out and get the current Justice Dept. to say it satisfies their concerns, they will have won a big victory. It's a pretty smart legal move.

Gerdog,

You are right on - in retrospect, I think the nine States holding out on JD settlement probably had more to do with SP1 being released than anything else. And yes, SP1 is more of a cosmetic ruse, than a real solution - hiding things you don't want rather than removing totally will satisfy JD they have done a good thing for the average consumer - can you say smoke screen?

am I gonna get in trouble for saying that I downloaded it at about 265 kb/sec?... ::ducks::

I just visited the Windows Update site and I do not see the SP1 listed. Have any of you gotten the SP1 from the Windows Update site?

I was wondering the same thing. Why isn't SP1 posted somewhere on Microsoft's website?

I just tried downloading SP1 from

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...sp1_en_x86.exe

all was going well until I got to 50Mb when it bombed me out & refused to let me back in. Pity because I had a good link d/l at 58k/s so it would have taken just 38mins on my DSL link.

Has it been pulled from this & other sites??

Tony P

for thos having probs downloading it, i'd recommend using a download manager so u can at least resume it if it fails, also u can be downloading it from several sources at once so it should max out your connection with no probs...

myself i used GetRight, worked flawlessly... flat out on my cable connection.

Thx again for the slipstreaming links, i've made a new updated XP Installation Disk with it, later on this evening i'm gunna do a fresh install and see how it goes, should save me many MB's of downloads from Windows Update as pointed out by The Elder Geek.

Might have to do the same with the Win2k disk as well, i like this slipstreaming stuff :D

BTW, no XP Service Pack on windows update here neither!

Regards :)

Nosing around the MS site I saw where they have XP/SP1 slipstreamed and available for download but you have to be subscribed to MSDN to get access.

Surprisingly enough the other sites have been doing pretty well to this point, hovering between 250-350 Kb/Sec. I'd almost be willing to bet that doesn't hold up through the evening and night hours. :rolleyes:

Heres the official

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...p1/default.asp

Do any of you who have download and installed the SP1 know where Microsoft hid the way to get rid of Windows Messenger? Or is it that Microsoft has determined that all the screwed up ways to get rid of it is enough?

Well for anyone interested the XP Install with slipstreamed SP1 went perfect...

...no critical updates needed at all after the fresh install...

...and the install size was only about 10MB's more than a standard XP install with the original disk.

In my case this has saved me a pile of junk on my hard drive equating to about 300MB's and will make future installs take alot less time to update... So M$ does actually do things to make it easier for us, :D D*** good feature, I'm impressed.

Regards :)