{"id":14,"date":"2004-08-30T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T04:32:52","slug":"hold-off-on-installing-windows-xp-service-pack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/hold-off-on-installing-windows-xp-service-pack-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold off on installing Windows XP Service Pack 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not suggest that you install the Service Pack 2 update to Windows XP just yet.  Seems like Bill jumped the gun on this one.  I installed it on my laptop, and it slowed it down a bit.  Even though it is now available via Windows Update, hold off a bit.  Check back here for updates.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font><b> Some have reported success with SP2.  So, you&#8217;ll just have to download and install it and see how things go.  If it won&#8217;t work for you, just go to START>CONTROL PANEL>ADD\/REMOVE PROGRAMS>and remove Windows SP 2 (a.k.a. Windows Service Pack 2).<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not suggest that you install the Service Pack 2 update to Windows XP just yet. Seems like Bill jumped the gun on this one. I installed it on my laptop, and it slowed it down a bit. Even though it is now available via Windows Update, hold off a bit. Check back here for updates. UPDATE: Some have reported success with SP2. So, you&#8217;ll just have to download and install it and see how things go. If it won&#8217;t work for you, just go to START>CONTROL PANEL>ADD\/REMOVE PROGRAMS>and remove Windows SP 2 (a.k.a. Windows Service Pack 2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}