pslewis

Loaded SP2 last night and my PC is now at a crawl!

Is it common??

Or has my mind just got faster?

Pete

unclebuck

We've been expressly told not to use it at work.

Summat to do with networks and firewalls.

ajm

Havn't noticed any appreciable drop in performance on the 100 odd pcs I have rolled it out to thus far.

The networks/firewalls thing is no excuse not to roll it out, the new windows firewall can be disabled or exceptions made for individual applications through group policy, your work IT must be lazy, useless or both!

The only good excuse for not using it as far as I can see is that some applications (or versions thereof) will not work with SP2 and these are "fairly" well documented.

Nicks VR4

Would be better posting this in the puter forum

You should check your security settings maybe set at high so will check everything and everywhere you go

pslewis

Cheers, it just seems really slow - slow to fire up, slow to open windows - and I'm only surfin'!!

Pete

lightning101

It is most likely to be a conflict of securities, SP2 is mainly security upgrades and until you disable the main ones nothing else seems to work right, i.e. norton firewall, panda, mcafee all seem to cause some kind of processor time blockage.

After a couple of days setting up ports, disabling inbuilt firewall completely etc., it all seems to be playing ball.

So if you have a good firewall and anti-virus solution, don't bother with the upgrade unless you understand security.

Oh and the new firewall is ****e.

Iain Young

Mine's definitely running faster since installing SP2. Getting higher benchmark results in 3dMark03 / Aquamark as well

spanky

A guy at my work loaded sp2 onto his laptop a couple of days ago and it was really slow but today it was back to normal he hadn't made any changes in that time.

wheelie_sti

Had some issues with XP and bluetooth adapter already installed. Sent completely ****-up that required a reinstall of the base xp, not pleasant.

Holding off at work at the moment until some of the issues are addressed.

wheelie_Sti

kelvin

My laptop seems slightly quicker following the update - certainly from a startup point of view

K.

WRX_Rich

iTrader: (5)

sp2 is the bollocks.. just runs allot better on a fresh install of xp

fast bloke

Pete - get an extra 4 Mb of memory - maybe even have a look out for a nice new (to you) 486. Some of them have 16 MEGS of ram ('s gonna make your 286 look as old as you though)

16vmarc

Seen a though more software has being installed has any been removed/updated as not to take up more space??