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Re: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things


From: Will Image <xillwillx () yahoo com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:49:11 -0700 (PDT)

the only problem i've encountered so far is that my
printer , a canon multipass f20 .. which has a flash
card reader freezes when trying to view drives when i
click on the 'my computer' icon ... also it freezes
when i try to open a file from within a program using
file/open.. when trying to get list of drives... im
not sure if this is a driver problem with xp seeing
the flash card as a drive... has anyone with usb/flash
drives experienced this problem?





--- "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
wrote:

All,

Just FYI, my company is experiencing a high volume
of calls from customers
claiming that they have installed Windows SP2.
Customers claim that SP2 is
"breaking" previously working network behavior.
Initial testing indicates
that the cause is the "Internet Firewall" settings
on SP2 which have been 
set to default closed! SO by FINALLY doing what
ought to have been done 
ages ago (as often argued in posts to this and other
lists), Microsoft has
inadvertently "broken" several customer network
installations that got used
to having transparency to network protocols that,
after the installation of 
SP2, are no longer permitted.

Yay Microsoft, you finally got it right (sort of).

G


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