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Posted by Cassius
Oct 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Yes, this is strange but true. We never did find the answer. XP seems at
>once finicky and erratic in its handling of DOS programs. on the whole I think WIN98 may
>have done a better job as it had DOS 7.1. Added to this is the fact that successive
>Service Packs applied to XP (I’m on SP3) have also probably played a role in further
>“individuating” all our windows setups.
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Derek, do you recall if you had SP3 installed when we tried to get my GV to work better. I haven’t installed SP3 because I’ve found that a lot of MS updates foul up other software. By the way, GV also worked fine under Win 2000.
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Cassius,
I installed SP3 on August 29th 2008, if that’s any help. I don’t recall having had any problems with it, although some people with versions of ZoneAlarm Free Firewall earlier than version 7.0.483.000 apparently lost their internet connection. Presumably any initial glitches have been worked out by now (ever the optimist).
Derek
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 13, 2009 at 07:36 AM
Cassius wrote:
>I haven’t installed SP3 because I’ve found
>that a lot of MS updates foul up other software.
Sideline: My own experience with the various Service Packs is the opposite; performance actually has improved after installing SPs on my Windows—which had grown buggy and slow from long term use, as well as installing/uninstalling trial programs (as I tend to do). The Service Packs apparently ‘clear the terrain’ much like a fresh install would do.
This may mean that some settings are not preserved (for example, Outlook seems to again become the default mailing program after any Windows update, no matter what I have changed it to), but I don’t remember software having trouble running after installing any of the SPs, quite the contrary.
In addition, I would strongly advise anyone to install the most recent Windows service packs for security reasons. Unpatched Windows installations can be remarkably vulnerable.