Last week i blogged that SP2 was imminent and sure enough the beta is now available for download on the MSDN subscriber site. So it’s kinda quiet in the run up to xmas so i thought i’d bite the bullet and install it.
So far so good. I’m actually using less space on my hard disk now - probably down to all the post SP1 hotfix uninstall information being removed. After installing and then rebooting it immediately prompts as to whether or not download updates automatically (this was prelogin) and the firewall certainly has been improved, this will warrant a whole blog entry itself.
As for IE, the popup blocker is pretty neat (once activated) it simply puts an icon down in the status bar next to where the SSL padlock appears, you can right click it to allow sites to ‘popup’ - on the whole pretty similar to the Google toolbar. IE Addon manager let’s you view ActiveX objects that are installed and you can enable/disable them from the menu.
Under add/remove programs you can now specify whether to show updates!!! What a great setting, it was really annoying before to open it up and have to wade through all the post sp1 pre sp2 hotfixes and such like to find the app you wanted to remove.
Most importantly everything i expect to be able to run is running, local CFMX server, DWMX etc - that’s a load off my mind, so now let’s see how long it lasts!
Recent Comments