[Important]DO NOT DOWNLOAD SERVICE PACK 2

[Heavygain]

Warezing is bad, i have ended my swindiling ways, sept for pr0n, that i just cant go without movies.

[Red October]

oops.

But...I haven't had any problems so far (legit w/ CD key).

*knocks on wood*

[Kam]

Eh? What's that you say? pr0n? Do you know of good movie sites that arent just scams?

[Hamma]

Here's a friend of mine's experience:

So feeling adventurous (or stupid, I still dont know) I installed SP 2 for XP. A almost 300 MB file... It starts by telling you to backup your system, as would be expected. Hitting next makes the thing start going, so I walked off and come back 5 minutes later and it says "backing up file..." so I walk away again, and come back.... 15? 20? or so minutes later and it asks me to reboot, so I do so, apon reboot its like xp was reinstalled, with those childish setup screens on a fresh install only it was asking about installing the firewall, so once again I said sure and it did something, I dont know what. XP starts up and a setup screen comes up telling me that I have the firewall installed, automatic updates running, but is pissed because I dont have antivirus software running. how would they know if i was running it or not? anyway, I get rid of the screen, play around for a while and got to start to shut down, and to my surprize most of my start menu is missing and i cant get to the rest of the network. so i reboot, and all but
2 icons are gone off the desktop, that setup screen appears.. again, and it wants me to take a tour of XP, like a fresh install. start menu is back though! i'm still thinking about taking that XP tour, maybe there's free drinks....

[Navaron]

This isn't part of those "automatic updates" is it? This is something you actually have to go and DL right?

Cause if it's part of the Automatic Update, I'm probably fucked because I don't ever register my copies of windows (haven't since 95) cause I'm a pretty private/paranoid person.

[Rbstr]

My comp is legit all the way down To MS office, nothing happend to me except that the firewall made Enemy Territory crash once, but that was an Easy fix. Iit gave me better FPS in Planetside too.

Thought it is basicaly a new install of XP + games, havent doen any tweaks or stuff scence i reformated.

I never register either, you don't need to at all, you just need a CD key and you need to activate, but all that does is make sure the CDkey is not in uses someware else already. registering is a different thing, thats telling them your name and Address and stuff.

[Kam]

You mean a thief.

[Navaron]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

I never register either, you don't need to at all, you just need a CD key and you need to activate, but all that does is make sure the CDkey is not in uses someware else already. registering is a different thing, thats telling them your name and Address and stuff.

Phew, I'm cool then. Although I've got no freaking clue where my CD is.

[Navaron]

Btw it is part of automatic updates. I haven't reset yet, can I just uninstall now and not fuck with it? I don't want any of my shit to reset or change.

[Papagiorgio]

I got in on the $39 Windows XP deal from Microsoft a couple years ago. $39 for a legal full XP Pro, a Microsoft bobblehead, chewing gum, an XP baseball, and various other Microsoft propaganda. I <3 legal XP.

[Corrosion]

I got windows xp as part of a microsoft class action lawsuit. Lost it thou.

[Red October]

Just realized that I haven't downloaded it yet (nothing that large gets on my comp w/o me noticing)....nor do I intend to for it least a month.

[Navaron]

Originally Posted by {BOHICA}Navaron

haven't reset yet, can I just uninstall now and not fuck with it?

That being said, when was it released? I've got it Downloaded, but I didn't notice anything different when I started up today, so unless it came down today and stealth DL'd it works fine for me.

[Hamma]

I doubt you can uninstall SP2, and it just came out in the passt several days.