Just installed the final official release of SP2 from the Microsoft Update site.Here is what I discovered...* Size of download... 75mb, not as large as before.
* Download time (on DSL)... 9 ½ minutes.
* Install Time... About 50 minutes.
* Total time from download to final boot up... about 1 hour (or a little less).
* Problem... none at first.
* Problem... I did have a problem with my Pivot Pro software (used for rotating the monitor from landscape to portrait; it kept saying that something had changed and Pivot Pro had to be reinstalled.
* Problem... after reinstalling Pivot Pro the computer would not boot, I also could not get out of SAFE mode. I finally reset the computer and ran 'Last known good boot up'. The computer did boot (while holding my breath; AGAIN). I reinstalled Pivot Pro a second time and all was finally well, good boot up and everything.
* Problem... An unwanted icon showed up in my Task Tray for Local Area Connect 5 (my DSL). Seems that SP2 security turned off some of the things that are considered normal for communications but my DSL is working just fine anyway. The thing I don't like about this is that it is an unwelcome icon (true it is only notifying me that there may be a minor problem with Local Area Connect 5). This is something that I still need to look at.
* Problem... SBC e-mailed me a few days ago about installing their patch for Yahoo and some other SBC components to be compatible with SP2. I downloaded the patch and tried to install it but kept getting 'No updates installed'. The only thing that I can think of is that just maybe the patch got into SP2 at the last minute and is not needed. This is something that I have to look at. Weird.
* Problem... SP2's new Security Center recognizes that I have Norton Anti Virus installed but it does not recognize that it is activated so it always shows a warning. Luckily, Security Center has a way to let me manually monitor items that I know are working. It is still strange as not recognizing Norton Anti Virus monitoring was a problem with some of the earlier Beta's of SP2 and Microsoft said that it would be fixed by the final release of SP2.
Soooo... other then that, everything seems to be running well once more with SP2 installed.
I guess this was the normal little things that makes Windows so d**m irritating at times.
I wish we did not have so many crooks, hackers and other idiots in the world so all this security would not be needed and we could just get on with living our lives without the feeling that we are constantly under attack.
I'm beginning to know what the Israelis must fell like.