Finally decided to install SP2 on my Windows XP box. I must admit to wondering what might happen, given the news coverage it had received, with reports that several major applications ceased to function once SP2 had been installed. I guess it wouldn’t sound so bad if these applications were old and obsolete, but a few in Microsoft’s list were mainstream applications, with one or two even published by M$ themselves! Anyway, I figured I really only use my XP box for games, so I went ahead. After waiting a while for 79MB to download and install, I watched intently as my machine rebooted, with messages such as “Please wait” popping up periodically until, finally, the familiar log in prompt appeared and everything looked just as it did before the install. All seemed to be painless until I started clicking on web links \u2013 for some reason, the computer had returned to producing a click sound every time I followed a web link! After rummaging around the “Control Panel” for a good ten minutes, I finally disabled it. Other than that, so far so good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Finally decided to install SP2 on my Windows XP box. I must admit to wondering what might happen, given the news coverage it had received, with reports that several major applications ceased to function once SP2 had been installed. I guess it wouldn’t sound so bad if these applications were old and obsolete, but a… <\/p>\n