A cautionary tale about XP SP2

[William]

Well evryone, after singing the praises about the installation of SP2 I have encountered problems with my brand new RZ502P.

Installed some software and then agreed to install SP2 (automatic download). After it rebooted there were no icons or taskbar on the desktop:smileycry:

Uninstallation or restore points didn't cure it so I finally resorted to the recovery disk:smileycry:

Blimey, a restore in safe mode takes forever and I tried two (Icons were there in safe mode)

I am now in the process of trying again:smileyconfused:

William

[William]

Appears to have worked this time:smileygrin:

Only about 4 hours wasted:smileycry:

William

[kee-lo_]

Thats odd.

[vaiodon]

My advice to all is backup your system (C: drive) as soon as you take it out of the box - Symantec/Norton Ghost is an easy tool to use and not expensive if you want to play legally.

It'll take a single DVD to backup a new PC. That's the easiest 'get out of the sticky stuff' mechanism. A major upgrade like SP2 is best done a clean install before all the 'orrible applications have been installed and messed up Microsoft's luverly configuration.:smileygrin: . Then Ghost it again, before start to install your favourite GHz gobbling applications! Keep Ghosting to get definitive return points/.

By having that Ghost of the "out of the box" install it's relatively easy to go back to the starting point which is invariably a necessity to provide to Sony support that there's a hardware problem when something fails.