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Jul. 23rd, 2004 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roneCRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of [Windows XP Service Pack 2], and upon completion of the install on three out of five systems, the machines blue-screened.
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[Engineers] had to rename "spuninst.txt" to "spuninst.bat" and execute the batch command "batch spuninst.bat." When that process was completed, a rollback of the Service Pack file should have occurred. That didn't happen.
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After that process finished, some interesting events occurred.
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Date: 2004-07-23 12:17 pm (UTC)I'm not a total Luddite; when I buy my next PC, it'll have XP on it, as that's pretty much the home standard now.
But then I read articles like the one to which you linked.
And then I read other articles about how new XP installs often get infected by worms before they even manage to connect to Windows Update, let alone download and install the appropriate updates.
And then I look at the $100 price tag to upgrade to such glories.
And then I itch.