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Well its been a little over 2 weeks now i beleive since i installed Service Pack 2 and i gotta say, i havent had any problems at all.
Im loving their pop-up blocker thingy too i can go to all those CJ sites now and find out who is using our content in a manner that they shouldnt be and not have to worry about being caught in a pop-up hell as i click links :thumbsup:
Anyone else here happy with SP2?
Regards,
Lee
I'm afraid to download it... my computers barely function as they are!
both the popup blocker and the script blocker RULE!!! I have had no issues with it since installing it and as I have said before highly recommend everyone get it installed asap.
cheers,
Luke
I've installed SP2 without any trouble.
Though, I guess I can't really take advantage of some of those features since I don't use IE.
I feel as if I'm learning a new language, reading this forum. Can I please ask what is SP2 (and do I need a prescription for it seeing that it makes everybody feel so good ...)
And CJ sites?
Tks
Albion
SP2 = service pack 2 from Microsoft which is an upgrade to the operating system XP by MS.
CJ = generally refers to a circle jerk type of site where the surfer is passed from one site to another within a group of sites either from the same webmaster or associated ones... but it can have other meanings too..
hth
Ian
I agree to a degree about the new script blocking in SP2; Usually it's been a real good thing.
It's annoying when I preview a webpage from my folders on the desktop; especially when there's no scripts running. Not sure what's up with that.
It's also annoying when I try to download files. Yes of course I want to download the file that's why I clicked on the link -- a couple of extra steps later... :)
On the whole though; yes, I'm glad I've upgraded.
Well I finally upgraded to SP2 last night and so far haven't had any complaints. Haven't really noticed much of a difference on pop ups as I already had the google bar enabled and a few others. Plus i use firefox for most of my surfing..
So for me haven't noticed much but at least I didn't get the blue screen of death.
Ian
I got new machines this week and have been reinstalling, a nightmare.
Now using XP and it came with SP2 and so far, so good -- only one minor crash so far and that was in Firefox, which I'm still not sure I like.
Robin, I think that has to do with your offline html page trying to pull something direct from an online site, like a graphic. I believe the point to that was to stop spam html based mail from automatically pulling email-specific graphics and thus "auto verifying" that you opened their mail.
cheers,
Luke
Good point Luke. I knew that images were being blocked in e-mail; I just hadn't thought of it being the same reason for web pages. Not sure why I thought that; probably because in email they refer to blocking images but in regular pages they refer to blocking scripts.
No biggie though -- as they're my own pages that I'm looking at offline, I just turn off the blocking bar gizmo.
I had problems with SP2 in the beginning, but it's fine now. Though I have the SP2 firewall and my router firewall installed and virus protection ( which slows my system) spyware somehow got installed on my new system. All this shit going and still not protected :evil:
I'm having problems with SP2 and my mouse. Click the button once and it clicks things 2-4 times. (I use a pen mouse.)
Other then that, it's cool.
Windows XP SP2 works great...only drawback for me it takes much longer (sometimes) to open files on my other network computer.