Reloaded XP home -- now some problems

[Guest Moi]

Hello all

 

I recently had to wipe my disk and reload. I have a very old XP Home

recovery disk, and have left automatic updates on.

 

Here are my questions

 

1 I seem to be getting odd copied folders appearing within other folders.

Reason?

 

2 I use Outlook 2000 (yes, I know its old but I like it and it has always

been great fo me). But now I notice postings in newsgroups are slow to

marked 'read'. This used to be instantaneous. Reason?

 

3 How can I see what Sps have been automatically applied?

 

4 What are the "horror stories" with SP3 that I've seen mentioned.

 

5 How can I arrange to be warned when an update wishes to be uploaded?

 

Thanks all

[Guest Ben Humpert]

Re: Reloaded XP home -- now some problems

 

Moi schrieb:

>

> I recently had to wipe my disk and reload. I have a very old XP Home

> recovery disk, and have left automatic updates on.

>

 

Depending which type of recovery cd you have, you can build a normal winxp

home setup cd in which you could slipstream SP2/SP3!

If you boot from that cd, does the default windows setup show or a

customised recovery screen made by the manufacturer?

>

> 1 I seem to be getting odd copied folders appearing within other

> folders. Reason?

 

Huh?

> 2 I use Outlook 2000 (yes, I know its old but I like it and it has

> always been great fo me). But now I notice postings in newsgroups are slow

> to marked 'read'. This used to be instantaneous. Reason?

 

Do you let Outlook automatically delete old newsgroup messages? If not, i

guess the amount of saved messages is to high.

> 3 How can I see what Sps have been automatically applied?

 

Don't trust the COA label or the informations on the cd. i have a new WinXP

Prof. SP2 setup cd but SP2 is not well integrated into the cd so Windows

Update and some applications think i still use SP1. After installation of

SP3 everything works fine.

 

You can check the version information of the kernel32.dll, eg. 5.1.2600.2180

(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158). On the CD the file is called KERNEL32.DL_, you

can open it with WinRAR or WinZip, extract the kernel32.dll, right-click,

Properties, Version.

> 4 What are the "horror stories" with SP3 that I've seen mentioned.

 

I don't have any problems. I run my unattended WinXP Prof. SP2 DVD, install

WMP11, install IE7, install SP3, getting updates from Microsoft Update.

Never tested with slipstreamed SP3!

> 5 How can I arrange to be warned when an update wishes to be uploaded?

 

"...to be downloaded" you mean?! In the Control Panel you have a new entry

called "automatic updates" after SP2 is installed. There you can choose

between "automatically download and install updates", "automatically

download updates but ask for installation", "only show information on new

updates" and "disable automatic updates".

 

 

I also suggest to use Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update. It checks

not only for all Windows Updates, it also checks for updates for other

Microsoft software such as Office, etc.

 

While in the Windows Setup i disable the automatic updates when asked, after

the installation finished i install WMP11, IE7, SP3 and then check for

Updates using Microsoft Update. After all updates are installed i enable

automatic updates.

This way you don't get in fight with automatic updates and microsoft update.

The URL to install Microsoft Update is

http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=de

[Guest allstreamit@yahoo.com]

Re: Reloaded XP home -- now some problems

 

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