Hi all

Nothing at all to do with EasyPano products but as many of you may be WIndows XP users, I would strongly suggest staying well clear of this latest update - that is at least untill Microsoft sorts out the maze of bugs in it.  There is a high percentage of users out there (including myself) that are very unhappy to have installed this bloody thing.

Luckily, I had a recent Ghost image to fall back to.

Cheers - Steiner

Yes, in several forums I read each day.. I am beginning to hear the same issues (read warning). 

The focus seems to be around.. having only ONE firewall operating.  It seems alot of software is blocked by the firewall.  Meaning you have to tweak the firewall to allow each piece of software to do its thing.

I read one comment where their Intel's Celeron CPU had to have its '?' rolled back in order to improve speed.  If you want me to go back and find the exact roll back procedure.. I can easily.  After the roll back, the machine was back up to normal speed.

I have put off installing service pack 2 for our local area networks workstations until they get their act together.

Dave

I had some stuff on my PC stop working after doing the XP updates of like 50 MB.

I suggest AVOID WINDOWS   - so sick of the wasting time on this os issues, even XP is a bit more stable then win me

I switched to MAC and I am more than happy!

You should consider it next time you plam to invest in new stuff.

cheers

Sven

Below is a list of software which may have problem when working under XP SP 2:

Pagemaker  7  Adobe  
PageMaker (German)  6.5  Adobe  
Photoshop Elements  2  Adobe  
Nero 6 Ultra  6  Ahead  
Nero Bruning ROM  5.5.6  Ahead  
AOL  9  AOL  
AOL Toolkit  1.13.2  AOL  
Corel Draw 9 - PhotoPaint (German)  9  Corel  
DivxPlayer  2.5.3  Divx  
Command & Conquer Generals  ---  EA Games  
Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour  ---  EA Games  
Earth & Beyond  v.1  EA Games  
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2  1  EA Games  
SimCity 4  v1.0  EA Games  
Freedom Force  1  Electronic Arts  
Rational's Clearcase  2003  IBM  
ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition 10  10  IBM  
SmartSuite Millennium Edition ScreenCam (German)  9.5  IBM Lotus  
ICQ Pro  3916  ICQ  
ColdFusion MX for J2EE 6  ---  Macromedia  
Freehand 8 (German)  8  Macromedia  
MapSend Direct Route  ---  Magellan  
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2004  6  McAfee  
McAfee Parental Controls  1  McAfee  
McAfee VirusScan  4.51  McAfee  
Netshield 4.5  ---  McAfee  
VisursScan  7  McAfee  Encarta Enzyklop?die  2002  Microsoft  
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings  ---  Microsoft  
Application Center 2000 SP2  ---  Microsoft  
BizTalk 2004  ---  Microsoft  
CMS  2001  Microsoft  
Comabt Flight Simulator 3  1  Microsoft  
Excel  2003  Microsoft  
Halo Combat Evolved (Arabic and Hebrew)  Trial  Microsoft  
MapPoint Europe  2004  Microsoft  
Microsoft Operations Manager  2000 SP1  Microsoft  
MS License  3.7  Microsoft  
MSBN  ---  Microsoft  
MSN  7.02  Microsoft  
MSN 9 QFE1 and 9.1 beta  9  Microsoft  
Office  11  Microsoft  
Office - Power Point 2002 (German)  2002  Microsoft  
Office Access 2002  2002  Microsoft  
Office System - Power Point  2003  Microsoft  
Office XP Access  10  Microsoft  
Office XP Professional Excel 10.0 SP2  ---  Microsoft  
Office XP SP2 - PowerPoint  11  Microsoft  
Office XP Standard  10  Microsoft  
Outlook 2000  9  Microsoft  
Outlook 2002  10  Microsoft  
Outlook 2003  11  Microsoft  
Outlook Web Access  x  Microsoft  
Revenge of Arcade  v1.0  Microsoft  
Server Administrator Tools  ---  Microsoft  
SMS  2.0 SP5  Microsoft  
SMS  2.0 SP5  Microsoft  
SMS  2003 RC2  Microsoft  
SMS  2003 RTM  Microsoft  
SMS  ---  Microsoft  
SNA Server 4.0 SP4  ---  Microsoft  
SQL  ---  Microsoft  
SQL  7  Microsoft  
SQL 2000a 2000a SP3  ---  Microsoft  
TaxSaver  1999  Microsoft  
Virutal PC  2004  Microsoft  
Visual Basic  6  Microsoft  
Visual C++ (16-bit)  2  Microsoft  
Visual Studio  7  Microsoft  
Visual Studio  97  Microsoft  
Visual Studio .NET Enterprise 2003  ---  Microsoft  
Visual Studio 98  6  Microsoft  
Windows Sharepoint Services  2  Microsoft  
Windows Sharepoint Services  ---  Microsoft  
Word  XP  Microsoft  
Works Suite 2004  2004  Microsoft  
WSS  2  Microsoft  
Real Player (free version)  10  Real Networks  
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne  1  RockStar Games  
Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5  ---  Symantec  
Norton Antivirus 2003  2003  Symantec  
Norton Systemworks 2003 - GoBack Personal Edition  Other MS  Symantec  
Norton Systemworks 2003 Professional Edition  2003  Symantec  
Norton Systemworks 2004 - GoBack32  Beta  Symantec  
PCAnywhere 11  ---  Symantec  
Smantec Antivirus Corporate Edition  8  Symantec  
Talkworks Pro  x  Symantec  
Yahoo  x  Yahoo  
Yahoo instant Messenger  x  Yahoo  
Yahoo Messenger  6.0.0.167  Yahoo  
PC Magazine Business Winstone Benchmark  2004  Ziff Davis  

For such a large programmar, bugs are inevitable. May God bless them. Amen.

Hmm, I'll give SP2 a wide birth!

Almost as far as Apple

My system works quite nicely at this point and see no reason to change.

Regards, Smooth

The main reason for going for XP SP2 is if you do not have a firewall.  It adds it's own version of internet security and pop up window restrictors as well.  If you have something like ZoneAlarm, you hardly need to mess with this update - certainly not until Bill Gates has sorted this mess out.

A word of warning to anybody developing sites for customers that use popup windows (never a good idea anyway) but this XP update will block these if they are automatically generated.

Good luck - Steiner