WinXP SP2 gets its first patch

User Comments: 6

1. August 20, 2004 8:56 AM
   SNGX1275 said:
   YAY!!! I've posted about this before (long time ago) about SP1 breaking the VPN on my computer. I read on some microsoft message board that it was a known issue and it would be fixed by SP2, but they would not be releasing a patch before SP2 because not many people are affected by it (VPN works fine for some people with SP1 and not others). Well I downloaded from microsoft SP2RC something and was disheartened to see that the VPN problem wasn't resolved. After I installed SP1 and saw it broke it I uninstalled and I've been using XP without SP1 (or sp2) since. Now it appears I can finally get my OS as up to date as possible.If I remember I'll post back after I get sp2 installed and patched with an update.
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2. August 20, 2004 11:29 AM
   BrownPaper said:
   No wonder why VPN didn't work on my friend's WinXP SP1. I wonder if this fix will work right.
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3. August 20, 2004 10:49 PM
   SNGX1275 said:
   Well I've hit a minor setback, the network install of SP2 that I burned is corrupt (I blame it on a crappy cdr) so it will be Monday at the earliest that I can try this.
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4. September 2, 2004 9:08 PM
   SNGX1275 said:
   Ok well that hotfix is just like the crap I ran into over a year ago with SP1. There is nothing downloadable about it, and it doesn't appear on windowsupdate. It just sends you to a page to contact Microsoft.And for my update, I reformatted and installed, and figured I'd give SP1 a shot again since I had their feb 2004 security update cd laying around, I did that, set up the vpn and all was good (VPN worked). In the meantime I had ordered SP2 on cd, that came in today so I reformatted again and installed XP then immediately put on SP2. Then I set up the VPN, it connects, but it does nothing, no communication occurs through it. So its broke again, and I can't even dl the hotfix.This pisses me off.
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5. September 8, 2004 11:15 AM
   Unregistered said:
   SP2 broke VPN for me too.[url]http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=3
   &threadid=1372637&enterthread=y[/url]
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6. September 8, 2004 6:43 PM
   SNGX1275 said:
   Somebody on the forums (a guy that only posted a few times in one of my VPN threads, maybe didn't post at all???) sent me a PM, and then subsequent emails on how he fixed it, it involved replacing a couple files and turning off that thing that keeps you from doing that.UNFORTUNATELY he sent them to my fidnet.com email address, and when I moved my ISP killed that account literally minutes after I left their office. I had forgotten to get those emails, now they are lost :(
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