Holy F**K

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

Can anyone tell me why Service Pack 2 would take over 2 hours to install on a fresh install of XP Pro?
I've never seen it take this damn long.

EDIT: Yes, I know this is techsupport. Yes, I know this isn't a place for help or solutions. Was just seeking any similar experiences, not a solution.

So, go fuck yourself, or flame away. After all, it is Monday. :D

Comments

[bitterfun.livejournal.com]

...because you accidentally typed in microsfot.com and are actually installing a comprehensive malware package?

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've installed SP2 many, many times. Its the official distro from Windows Update burned to a CD.

Again, not asking for a solution, just experiences. Yes, I posted in the right community.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Because you are soooo observant and are asking the snark community a technical question? We can only guess you are just as brilliant when choosing installs.

Damn I am being to nice today. Someone take my clue by four and whomp this user over the head for me?

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

No SHIT! I know this isn't a tech support community. I was just asking if anyone had a similar experience, not for a solution.

[wyldthyng.livejournal.com]

Somebody else who was a frequent poster in the community posted a similar gripe and didn't get flamed. Just sayin'.

[typhoid.livejournal.com]

I <3 your answer.

[manuka.livejournal.com]

2 hours seems pretty normal to me. Just wait until SP3 :)

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Is that the one they make XP-Pro slower then Vista so we upgrade?

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

because it's a piece of shit, updating a piece of shit. shit plus shit equals two shits. afraid that's all I can give.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

It is a late model HP, so you may be right.

[bitterfun.livejournal.com]

Wait, are you saying you can give two shits? Personally, I didn't think anyone here would give a single shit, let alone two shits.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it. (Ours are all slipstreamed.) But it wouldn't surprise me. I just did Windows Updates for only the past two months on a Dell laptop here that's about 3-4 years old and it took over an hour. :(

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

because it is a microsoft product. if a microsoft product is too slow, the engineers are requires to work on stretching time instead. that's the microsoft way.

[grayhawkfh.livejournal.com]

I don't know that it's ever taken me 2 hours, but an hour or a little more, yes.

And I am not, repeat, NOT looking forward to SP3.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

SP3 isn't that bad...

[jecook]

It's gotta be better then manually installing all the post SP2 updates...

*blew 7 frelling hours at work saturday fetching and installing the bastids*

[sethb.livejournal.com]

It's taking so long because your machine was zombied in the first 3 minutes and the zombie is carefully defanging SP2 to ensure its own safety.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

bwahahahaha.

[superbus.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that Windows 2000 was the best consumer operating system ever. Even better than Hardy Heron.

Just putting it out there.

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

But.. but.. but.. it wasn't pretty.. and we all know pretty sells. Look at vista breaking all the sales records. oh yea, go vista go. Give my etch-a-sketch a run for it's money...

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

Two frelling hours?

Did you remember to sacrifice an unspoiled virgin to the gods of MSFT?

You have posted here before with the snark - so you are allowed to bitch.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

slow-ass hard drive or a lack of RAM?

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

I had a customer request that I install Windows 98 on a 486SX 33MHz. I think it had 16 Megs of RAM.

I started the install just before closing. It still hadn't finished by the next morning.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

We tell our peeps 20 minutes to 2 hours, just to be safe, depending on the connection speed/memory of the PC/how many people are downloading it off the ftp/space beams from Mars/solar flares/thunderstorms in Australia/etc. Yay hospital.

PS: I (thankfully) lack the "equipment" to fuck myself, so you get the "fire" icon. :P Happy Monday (now Tuesday).

[syberghost.livejournal.com]

GTFOMI