Agreed, wasn't attacking or anything, just felt like playing Devil's
Advocate at the very least, just in case someone was confused as we know
people easily are nowadays. :)

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of myke predko
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:01 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Avoid Windows XP Service Pack 1
>
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Sorry, I should have pointed out that *Microsoft* were the
> ones that admitted that XPSP1 "isn't as stable as they would
> like it to be" (direct quote from one of the emails) and
> recommending removing it.  The reason why HP was mentioned is
> because Microsoft will not be the first line of support for
> OEM pre-installed O/Ses - all the conversations had to go through HP.
>
> This is the same if you had a Dell or any other OEM with
> pre-installed Windows XP.
>
> If your PC is working fine with it, then don't do anything.
> If it is acting strangely and you have it installed, then you
> might want to try removing it.
>
> The purpose of the email was to try and save people the grief
> that I went through this weekend along with the various
> experiments trying to identify the problem.
>
> myke
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Veys" <nick@VEYS.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Avoid Windows XP Service Pack 1
>
>
> > Am I the only one who thinks a blanket statement like this
> is kind of
> > irresponsible?  Seems like you run an HP from the text, which would
> > imply a certain model of HP, which would imply a certain
> problem with
> > hardware/software compatibility with XPSP1.  An issue I'm
> sure many,
> > many people will not have.  Mine and every system I admin have been
> > running SP1 for several weeks now with no issues whatsoever.
> >
> > nick@veys.com | www.veys.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of myke predko
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:03 PM
> > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > > Subject: [EE]: Avoid Windows XP Service Pack 1
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I just wanted to let Windows XP users know that XP Service Pack 1
> > > (XPSP1), which became available for download over the
> weekend should
> > > not be downloaded.  It took me four days to figure out
> why my mouse
> > > started working intermittently and why the system usage
> would jump
> > > to 20% after a few minutes. This was done with a lot of
> help from HP
> > > and Microsoft support people.
> > >
> > > The word I got this morning from HP is that they are
> getting swamped
> > > with people having trouble with their machines.
> > >
> > > If you already have installed XPSP1 and your PC is
> starting to act
> > > strangely, click on "Start" -> "Setting" -> "Control Panel" ->
> > > "Add/Remove Programs", scroll down until you find the
> service pack
> > > item and click on "Remove".  The "Remove" takes a LONG
> TIME, on the
> > > order of an hour, so unless you have a book or something,
> you might
> > > want to do something while this is happening.
> > >
> > > After you "Remove" and you've rebooted, you'll notice that your
> > > system will take a very long time to start working properly again
> > > (also on the order of an hour).
> > >
> > > myke
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