Alias <alsoknownas@maskedandanonymous.ru> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> Alias <alsoknownas@maskedandanonymous.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> Streaming wrote:
>>>> "Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:kgdq635042r1ne4f096h7s2t3otku6utnf@4ax.com...
>>>>> At http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/s...hattoknow.mspx I read
>>>>> "Before you install SP2, get your version of Windows completely
>>>>> up-to-date with the latest performance and security updates.
>>> False. Install the SP2 first and then get the updates. I've done it on
>>> dozens of computers with outstanding results. Even though this is from
>>> an MS site, SP2 includes all the updates from the release of SP1 to the
>>> release of SP2 so I don't understand their guidance.
>>>
>>>
>>> Go to the
>>>>> Microsoft Update, click Express Install, and then install all high
>>>>> priority updates listed."
>>> You should *never* use Express Install unless you want WGA/N, IE7 and
>>> other flawed crap.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>> Thanks, that proved sound advice. A little after posting I came across
>> a non-MS thread that effectively said the same, i.e. SP2 already
>> includes all SP1 updates. So I'm glad I ignored the MS article!
>>
>> I also agree entirely with you about Custom v Express. Although in
>> this instance the only exception we made was to exclude IE7. (Last
>> time WU inadvertently installed it on her PC, it gave a variety of
>> problems, and no apparent benefits over IE6.)
>
>Outlook has a big problem with IE7 if you use HTML in Outlook. IE7 makes
>typing really slow and very, very frustrating. Personally, I only use
>IE6 for Windows Updates and do all my Internet surfing with Ubuntu Linux
>on another machine, being as there isn't one single Linux virus in the
>wild. Not one.

I use Firefox myself, but my wife seems happy enough with IE6.

>> So all that SP2 upgrade part of the exercise went OK. But it didn't
>> fix the issue that I mentioned at the outset. When run on the new PC
>> the Wizard refused to recognise the compressed files it had made on
>> the old PC. (Something like "Location contains no valid files...").
>>
>> I tried this using both an external HD and a 1 GB memory stick. I
>> tried Files & Settings and then just on the Settings Only option. No
>> joy with any of these.
>>
>> I'm pressing on manually now (just cracked the Outlook Express bit,
>> for example), but for future reference and academic interest can
>> anyone suggest why this failed please?
>>
>
>Sorry, I have never used FAST. I just back up the data on an external HD
>and after reinstalling XP, put the data back. I manually configure
>settings which really doesn't take that long and may even be less time
>that you've spent fighting with FAST.

No question about that. On this (admittedly limited) evidence, FAST
seems poorly named ;-)

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Terry, West Sussex, UK