Upgrade to SP2 or wait till it's official?? ***UPDATE***

[yos]

Should I wait till Win2k SP2 is official from Microsoft or install the SP2 patch now???
My system acts a little funny and has it's querks.... should I install this new SP2 floating around???

-the Yos

Reading around, this is what I found. I think I may wait until the end of this week. I have to backup my system anyway as I usually do before major upgrades.

http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=21074

 

[djs1w]

don't fix it if it's not broke. Wait till it's official.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

It is official...Microsoft is just quiet about releasing SP2.

It's solves a lot of problems.

 

[yos]

If it's official, why are they being quiet? That sounds kinda dumb of them, doesn't it? I mean, with all the people that were bitchin that they were taking so long? How did you find out that it's official, it's not on the web page or anything that I can find??

-The Yos

 

[Tedtalker1]

Microsoft probably wants all us tecno freaks to get it first because they probably read forums such as this to get last minute feedback.Plus it will take some of the traffic off their servers when they do put it on Windows Update.I will still download it again once they put it on Windows Update because they just might make some improvements afterall.

 

[jaywallen]

http://www.activewin.com/

The best information I've seen on it so far is at the above site.

Regards,
Jim

 

[Shudder]

Well jesus it's been in beta for about 38 months so it had better be just fine

Might as well install it, I'll probably have my system hosed because of my work software anyway.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

It is not dumb by Microsoft....they just don't want the public to think that there is a lot of problems with windows 2000.

 

[LordEdmond]

picking up on Jaywallen's link to activewin.com
they have a link up for the exppress version this is only 10mb for pro version 23mb for server works fine much betterthan the 103mb d/l for us on 56k

this will be ok till I find a cover disk ( PcPro ) should have it soon

 

[Humanoid]

According to this site, http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=21074

the current SP2 is supposed to be the official version.

 

[Dually]

yes they did say if there are major problems they will fix them before the release this week.

However you won't be able to get it from windows update cause you will already have it installed (it will register as sp2 even if its not final) and you will have to go downlaod it on a dif part of their site.