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Chris102 Chief Captain
Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 1063
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:57 pm

Can installing Windows updates slow down your computer??

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 18001 Location: U.S.A
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:13 pm

With certain computers, SP2 has proven to slow down machines, especially older ones. (2 years or more).
They (MS) has a 10% (guess) problem rate.

I never loaded SP2, I just keep updating XP-with SP1.

Radar

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tomthetank Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 24, 2003 Posts: 3400 Location: Newport S/Wales
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:14 pm

It may also slow down whilst you are downloading,but should go back to normal after d/load is finished

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Rambunctious First Officer
Joined: Mar 29, 2003 Posts: 110 Location: Sydney
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:31 pm

I heard a guy's wife left him after he installed sp2... 😂

I have not noticed any change at all. In fact my benchmarks haven't altered one iota since sp2 with all driver updates.

There are some issues with conflicts with certain setups, and some spyware will cause your firewall (if you enable it, recommended) to make your machine misbehave in weird ways.

If you're having probs, I would suggest unloading all known & suspected "adware", and trying again. SP2 is way too useful to not install it because of adware conflicts...

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