I had SP2 installed and uninstalled it, upon restart, the Passwords are NOT recognized anymore, I hope you guys have your system backed up or know how to reset the password, cuz I did not.

If someone knows, how to reset it, please let me know.

sir

I have 2 machines and other than the BID issue I havent noted a real barnstorm in either direction from sp2. I seems quite stable though , but that is from the standpoint of a late model machine in either case. coppermine/asus board/256mb crucial/micron pc-100/tekram/lvd-scsi/pure data-nic/standard crap. runs fine. I am leaving my 933 out of the loop until we move further down the road. We will see how it goes but the machines seem fine working together through belkin switch. I noted a little bit more of a bumpy ride through the switch than before but stable enough. I will see you guys when the news advances further.

im running low on HD space, and i'd like to remove the backup files made when SP1 was installed on my computer. is it safe to remove the $servicepack$ or whatever the directory is called , and remove the uninstall option from my add/remove program list?

It works fine for me :-)

Working fine for me too. Things do seem to be a little speedier pulling up. Only problem I had was that CDROM access was unbearably slow after installing SP2. After checking out the properties, I noticed that MS added an option to specify your cdrom speed and for some reason it had defaulted to 1x. After switching it to 9x-20xCAV things were much better. I haven't tried my geforce 2 mx in the system yet to see if the lockups were fixed yet, Perhaps I will give it a try next weekend.

How do you set your CD-ROM speed? Please help me. Thanks. =)

Well looks like sp2 has cured some USB problems for me on my K7V. Kept getting lockups with the mouse and keyboard. 3 days and counting ad still no problems yet!! Looks like Microsoft have got their act together on this one

You'd think it's a whole new OS the way everyone is clamoring for this. It's like people who want betas of SPs and DirectX as though it's going to be going from a Pinto to a Porche.
They pulled it, obviously they aren't confident to release it even to the beta testers yet; hence, why try and break your pc?

We are relaxed my friend. We are just passing on what we are experiencing with this thing. Results will surely differ from system to system. All I am saying is that MY system experienced a tremendous boost in performance! No kidding! It could be a service pack, but a great one at that I might add. For my BX-440 shipset it was awesome. Now, for my brand new VP6 board, it remains to be seen. I will update the progress as I am installing the MOBO as I type this reply. BTW, sweet MOBO Abit came up with and it only cost me $160 from COMP-USA.
Imagine, 2.4Ghz of firepower with 1/2 GIG of PC-133 CAS-2 RAM!! WOW.
Salivate you guys, salivate !!!!

I would imagine that these types of forums are havens for companies like Microsoft. The more people who download SP2, the more people who can offer their feedback about it. Granted, some feedback is useless, anyone willing to install a Beta like Win2kSP2 must have something to say about it.

I don't think, that M$ must read Betanews etc., to get qualified feedback. ;-) If you have ever visited the Whistler Beta Page, you know, that technical Betatesters must make a survey for each installation and much more. People, who downloaded internal Betas from warez sites can't (or won't) do this. But a problem is, that some webpages, who post the old link to SP2-files last week, did'nt write, that it's an internal beta build. So people must assume, that's the final SP2 from M$. I won't know, which of them have troubles with their systems now (and normaly would never install a buggy beta).

After installing SP2 RC2, i noticed that IE5.5 was crashing a little too often (crashing all of Explorer.exe actually).

So I uninstalled it and everything is fine and dandy again. At least Microsoft is getting better with their patches (you can finally install and uninstall something without much remance left over).

I have noticed exactly the same thing, glad you posted this, i had other believes, but know i know.

sir

The above web site is mirroring sp2. To download it, click on the link in the orange pane.

Is it a joke or your site is down?
Anyway, I get only "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" notice...

Some times I have to restart for various reasons, and so it may be down for a short time. I'm sorry if you started downloading got cut off unexpectedly.

I have had problems running VMWare for the last couple of months - it just wouldn't run! (Not enough free memory pages).

Nothing I did (including re-applying Win2k SP1) would fix it, however SP2 has just been installed and now VMWare is running perfectly!

I'd be interested to know if anyone has any idea why this has happened.

This is a good one from MS. Works perfect on my machine, bit quicker too! Get Zone Alarm that does work on SP2, then switch back to black ice when the finally fix it. I dont think they have the SP yet so I doubt it will be fixed until FEB/MAR 2001.

Anybody come up w/a work-a-around for the filter problem with Black Ice after installing SP2? Everything else working fine.

2.1cn had one filter fail in 2 days on my machine . I just upped it to 2.2cc beta that I was running during the sp1 disaster . Network ice will move quickly only when it becomes official on sp2 being released. I have been waiting to see if they invite me again when they start preparing. No apparent problems although it hasn't been long enough to be conclusive on the 2.1.56/58 version yet. Once properly motivated though they do a jam up job. Sp1 saw a much improved Blackice setup with a smooth shutdown and install. If you can get them on it , they do quality work. I guess until big brother goes official that anyone with sp2 beta up is just in limbo though.

been running the service pack for a day now... everything seems fine. it seems to have fixed a problem i was having with two nic's in my system that was causing problems when i rebooted. running a celeron oc@450 on a abit-bh6. yep.

it's working great.. but funny thing happened.. after installing SP2 i went to MSDN Support Knowledge Base and where you type your question.. here what i got "(kbJSCRIPT500*) and (b****) and (not kbfile and not kbhowto and not kbinfo and not kbsample)" this is the exact URL to it.. http://search.support.mi...=C&FR=0&spr=vst

Hey guys, my system's speed just improved by about 30% with SP2. I do not know why!! My IE5.5 is rendering pages like crazy now!! MS has done a good job on this one. BTW, ZERO glitches so far on my system. I have an abit BE6-II with OCd PIII@1000Mhz, but now it feels like a 1.2 Ghz PIII. Can't wait to get my frickin VP6 and do this thing with 2xPIIIs and see it is going to fly. Merry Xmas to me, WOO HOO !!!

How do you explain the drastic system performance increase after installing SP2?

Amazing the speedincrease, IE 5.5 flies, ms word loads in less then 1 second, compared around 4 in win98 (PIII-800).
Yep it's like running a 1.3GH system. This is the best thing MS has put out for a while.

WOW!@$#@!%

WORD OPENS IN LIKE ONE SECOND!#%@!%#

HOLY ****, I'M SO HAPPY I SPENT ALL THIS $$ ON GREAT HARDWARE AND A PIRATED VERSION OF WIN2000 THAT I CAN OPEN WORD IN NO TIME AT ALL@!^#@!^#

some people are so pathetic

WOW !! What pissed you off loser.
another 12 year old who knows it all.

Whatever "amazing" speed increase you are experiencing is NOT attributable to the service pack.

Possible, but what else can I attribute it to? All I know is that after I installed SPK2 my machine sped up a whole lot. One thing I can think of is that my HPT-UDMA66 controller is working optimized with Win2K detecting it as such. Even encoding DiVX is taking about an hour less then before. So, I am not sure, but I KNOW that something happened to my system, something wonderful.
P.S. I still havn't received my VP6 MOBO, WHERE DA F**K is it?

hah

so sad

im looking to install windows 2000 on my system (windows 98 just isnt cutitng it anymore) but i dont know which network card i need to get that is compatible w/ 2k. any suggestions on which card works well in 2k?

I've always had good results with Intel cards and W2000 works very well with this one. And Intel is conscientious about continuously working on updating the drivers to improve performance and reliability.

I have used 3com 10/100 and pure data 10/100 cards and pretty much even genius ethernet jumpered 10 base cards even. I havent found any issues with any of those . even a crappy old smc 10base card worked hehe. Good luck though . win2k will run a compatibilty hardware and software check on your machine and save a printable text of all issues the opener might have. I would suggest uninstalling blackice and reinstalling and acrobat reader . It will tell you if it has a problem. If you migrate it will keep some of 98 and retain the windows folder along with the winit folder. also in migration it mixes the 98 feel with 2000. I preferred a clean install after migrating the first time. LOL. out with old in with the new. prepare by stashing .dat email ,bookmarks ,etc. on another drive . If you are installing to an ide drive just unpartition and repartition disk 0 in the start and let it reboot and format in ntfs. It likes it : )
You will have a choice of dynamic or basic format of ntfs. I just chose basic and it has always worked well. I want to watch the progress of the dynamic set for a while before I take a full plunge.
you can leave any or all of the other drives in fat32 until you feel safe and can juggle the data. also any drive letter juggling can easily be done through start /control panel/administrative tools/disk management logged in as administrator. Nice OS and rock solid . I have one up with sp1 and another running sp1/sp2_beta . comparing them trying to see what I like. also after doing the sp2 beta dont go to the update page hehe. It will try to install a critical service update as far as I know that will fail . I think it has to do with the 128bit encryption in the beta that is irreversable . enjoy and I hope I have helped. Issac

Without a doubt the 3com 3c905b

For the guys who would like SP2 RC 2.52 it's available on my site at http://www.frewzy.com/cis/software under the section service pack.

Have fun!

BTW, SP2 is running fine on my computer...

Windows 2000 has never been buggier. I can't count how many system crashes I've experienced since installing the RC of SP2. It's got to be over 20 - and I've had the thing installed less than 12 hours. Nothing but problems with Easy CD Creator 4.02e, and DirectCD 3.01e. Everything ELSE seems to work fine, I'll admit, but this thing isn't worth even the 15 minutes it took me to download it (thank god for broadband, at least :)). Hopefully they'll eliminate the incompatibilities with Roxio software before they release this set of "fixes" (although the original Windows 2000 broke EZCD/DCD, too).

how about you use a real CD burning program like Nero and/or CDRWIN?

how you like them apples

I used Easy CD too. I was wondering with problems you came across after installing SP2. I remember after installing IE 5.5 SP1 I couldn't install Adaptec after it screwed up on me. The installer kept saying that my IE was too old and kick out of the installer. Anybody else have problems with Easy CD after installing SP2?

Easy CD creator sucks big time.. been having lots of problem and blue screen cuz of it and not even having the SP2 installed.. it just sucks..

Cuz they both SUCK? Not to mention that neither has the features or interface to make it usable. I got ahold of a BIN-to-ISO converter to do everything that CDRWin does that EZCDC doesn't handle.

Basically the problem was with one of my CD-RWs that is in less-than-tip-top shape. I had tried to add something to it, and the import session was screwing up. It just wouldn't import it. Had some corrupt files on the disk - ended up MANUALLY copying the good stuff to a folder on my desktop, re-downloading the bad stuff, and erasing and reburning the sucker. THAT worked.

Also, the problems I think I was having were from installing the Roxio patches in the wrong order. The last time I used it, it worked (crossing fingers that it will still work in a little bit).

AHAHHAHA

oh man, some people

"its not easy to use, so it sucks"

it IS easy to use, both actually

ezcd doesn't conform to red book audio standards, so i would NEVER burn an audio cd with it.

If some would like to send me a link I can download the service pack ffrom I would appreciate it...
pauldietrich@home.com

Hi I have zone Alarm And as long as I use it I have to reboot everytime I need to login to my internet. This is cause from a bug in win2k. I hoping SP2 fixes. Anyone out that has this same problem and knows that it was fixed in SP2 email me please!!!

Jeff_Giampetro@hotmail.com

get the last update of Zonealarm and you are good to go! My blackice will not work so I use the new zonealarm and all works good with the sp2. So Far ;}

I cannot offer any advise, but I would like to add that I have a similar problem. I use a laptop and when I go to class or even connect somewhere else in class, I must reboot. Win2K doesn't offer a winipcfg utility and the win95/98 version doesn't work (even with the .dlls it asks for). I use BlackIce but I do not believe this affects the situation.

Load a command prompt and type ipconfig

ipconfig /release (releases all DHCP info)

ipconfig /renew (i'll let you guess ;)

Looks like mikiesoft has pulled the plug on the beta download.

only problem I got is my blackice filter. It will not load the way it should. Other than this it looks good !

Installing this BETA for ATA100 support is INSANE. It's a beta! If you at least have something
beyond a 440BX chipset mobo go and get the Intel ATA100 6.03 driver here http://support.intel.com...ort/chipsets/driver.htm It did WONDERS for the W2K machines we have
at my site. Please for the love of gawd try this before you take a beta plunge and regret it.
Hope this helps you.

Definitely. That driver makes a HUGE difference.

Sorry but I am an AMD man, Intel blows. I know many people that have already installed SP2 and are up and running fine. I had no problems with SP1 beta. For god sakes thats why I have extra PCs to beta test this sh** before implementing it on my everyday PC. :) So somebody hook me up with SP2 please. r00t187@hotmail.com

it is in the following news group.

sorry, here it is: alt.binaries.warez.win2000 Enjoy!!

anyone who needs it can email me and i will give my FTP info so they can DL it..... danny70@bellsouth.net

I take off for 2 hours to catch up on office work and they have posted it and pulled it all in a short short. If I could get it I would post it at myspace.com open shared or I could make it available to several people at a time with a 20kbps download max per client via static IP and servu.

Can someone please upload it to their website so I can downlaod it? Thanx!

I got the service pack before beta news posted it :) i honestly don't see much of a difference.

If someone has a working link or is willing to upload it, I can provide a place. I really want to get my ATA100 working

OK, contact me paulvb at mail.com ...please have ftp

I would love to get your ata100 a workout! : ) I am at
james@battlesbailbonds.coxatwork.com ;p

I posted the link much earlier today on my site www.neowin.net
just maybe :)

or a mirror. this link is **??=)=))

The link has been pulled
Error 404 =(

Any of the big bugs about windows not focusing correctly and even though they are selected you have to alt and tab to get to them? or the problems with Tcp/ip lile taking ages to hang up sometimes ?

Well, installed the SP and so far nothing weird has happened, but then all was running rather well previously. At least I was able to reboot after the installation, and other tried it?

Not yet. My comfort factor with even Microsoft's final service packs is very low - not to mention betas. Still waiting for a few more brave souls to try it out :)

as SP1 upgraded IE5.01 to IE5.01 SP1, does this pre-release verison of SP2 upgrade W2k to IE5.5 or IE5.5 SP1????????

everything is working great so far, i notice no real diffrence, IE5.5 sp1 is still listed as IE5.5 sp1

nope the IE version is the same as before the install 5.50.4522.1800 what it does do is update the cipher strength from 56 bit to 128bit (as if you did'nt have that already with IE or SP1) maybe the final release will include both 56 and 128bit versions as did SP1

any chance you would be willing to upload it onto my xdrive account? please email me at maneufeld@hotmail.com.

Can you share the service pack with me then.. so i can test it too ??

Thanx in advance..

Contact me @: jozef@isgestoord.nl please, if u feel like sharing.

It's ironic really, you guys post the link and bam, they remove it within a few hours after...gee, I wonder why...