Win XP sp2 Download

[LocalH]

I don't know if this is the same one, but Microsoft does offer SP2 for public preview - I'm running it at home. I don't have a URL handy, but I downloaded it directly from their site, without any special access.

Edit: Yeah, I looked at the URL - it's directly from Microsoft. Now, that WMP10 might be a bit more sketchy, I dunno, I know it's not part of SP2 right now.

[LocalH]

The second WMP link gives me a 404 anyway.

And for confirmation, here's Microsoft's page with SP2.

[LocalH]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i`ve just had to remove that `update` completely....(and i almost didn`t manage....)

That (build 2096) looks ok on paper, but my machine just crawled along and won`t boot or close down properly.
And the display scramb;les up every so often (directX 9.0c ?)...
(i had to use the Force to reboot...)

media player 10 seems ok though, (hasn`t crashed , and has added a few extras), looks like that`ll stay.

My `Wreckamendations` are don`t bother with this SP2 build...

Hm, that's weird, I'm running SP2, and I've not had any problems with it (well, I did have one minor problem where I had a custom bootscreen kernel set as the default and was getting weird ntfs.drv errors, but that was fixed as soon as I edited boot.ini, and was my fault since the install informed me that I had to boot with an unmodified kernel). I quite like the upgraded firewall, it now auto-blocks new software on the first net access, giving you a dialog allowing you to immediately unblock, or keep it blocked. I've not really noticed any stability or performance issues as compared to SP1, for me SP2 seems rock-solid so far.

And to think a year ago I said I'd not run XP... =P