SP4 issues

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aveks

Had a system completely virgin & re-installed last week.
Arrived from a (so-called) ''tech'' who had applied SP3 &
about nothing else. Over the course of several days have
been updating everything except SP4.

Have Norton SysWorks 2002 & NAV 2003 & Interenet Security
2003 all on it & updated. Feeling like I have achieved
digital integrity, system hummin' along nicely, full
maintainance, defrag etc.

Install SP4 & now speedisk is ''unavailable,'' although
(thank gawdz) the native win2K defrag still works.

Also, cannot use disk cleanup; system hangs at
calculating ''Scanning: compress old files.'' I _never_
use compression, but somehow that option has been switched
on and there is no way to switch it off (that I know of)
without the utility actually running to completion.

None of these issues an hour before SP4, but have been
fighting 'em for about 18 hours now. Had run very full &
complete system maintenance in every way I could imagine
prior to SP4 and very glad I did.

I'm feeling lucky after reading through some of the other
small nightmares being posted here.

Thank you, MS, for once again posting a patch that's even
buggier than the problems alleged to be fixed. Just one
more brick in the wall to speed up migration to BSD &
linux. Happy our org has avoided the XP nightmare you've
inflicted on the world.
 
Before installing SP4, I've had an endless disk cleanup too. This was
because of the Anti virus which creates as many temporary files that the
system opens to clean it...

This problem happened with Norton AV as well as with other AVs. when trying
to clean the Win2K system directory.

After disabling (totally) the AV, the disk cleanup works fine. even with
SP4.

Maybe in your case all issues are not coming from MS (but this does not
prevent MS from checking their patches twice before releasing).

Hope this could help.
 
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