Here is a useful article about the imminent release:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=61594

Only an 80Meg download, lol, and it is going to be filtered out to the end-users gradually.

However, priority is going to be given to those who have 'auto-update' turned on. Mine is, so may be worth checking your settings.

I don't have a bandwidth problem, but can imagine someone on dial-up and having auto-update 'on', this download then clogging their system.

OR just buy a magazine as stated in the article, get it on CD-Rom.

Stu

You can get the systems admin network install here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

It's 266 Meg, but then I wanted it now, gotta get round to deploying it now

Dial-Ups are being told to wait their turn as priority will be given to those with ADSL Broadband & ISDN. It's supposed to be a 266meg download as i got the details thru work.

Ah, 266 Meg only if on a network, and as per Sh33n's link.

The 80 Meg I quoted was for stand-alone home machines, and that will be maximum. I presume if the machine pretty much up-to-date, may be a slightly lesser download. Be interesting to see when I get mine in a few weeks.

to be honest i think it will be a waste of time if you have dial up.

it will take you hours upon hours to download and I dont think the benefits of it will outweigh this time taken to download it. Don't bother i say.

That was my point of this thread - if you got dial-up AND auto-update on, then I am suggesting you turn it off and buy a mag with it on. Otherwise you may wonder why the machine has started to clog up for no apparent reason...

Just glad I am on ADSL at home and work

Will get it at school then. T10 line. Can go put a dime in the soda-machine and it will be downloaded before I get back. My modem dial-up at home is useless I see.

Will it work with my not-so-very-paid-for XP? Have SP1 installed.

Morten.

Thats what I was wondering Mort, I "accquired" a copy with certain vulnerabilities written out and was thinking about that.

Regarding auto-update you can set it so that you are prompted to download and install any updates available as opposed to it doing it automatically.

Liam

SP2 has been out since earlier this week...

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

Does it have DVD +/- R/RW facilities does anybody know?

Morty Mort.......Will it work with my not-so-very-paid-for XP? Have SP1 installed.

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I can not see why not, if you download just the file and them install it, i.e. without using the autoupdate then u should have no problem. I am in the same situationas you, but time will tell. I have just started the download of the 266Mb version, i am on a newly upgraded (for free) NTL 300K connection and it says it will take 2hours 15mins from now and i have done 7.05Mb so far. Here is me hoping it does after waiting that long for it to download.

Gimme Windows2000 professional SP4 anyday stupid XP crap... I can see whats going to happen once SP2 rolls out at work. 1 months worth of faults and me getting totally pissed off

All working fine and dandy here on a slipstreamed XP Corporation version

Even recognises NOD32, after I had to get the beta of it from a source

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I can not see why not, if you download just the file and them install it, i.e. without using the autoupdate then u should have no problem. I am in the same situationas you, but time will tell. I have just started the download of the 266Mb version, i am on a newly upgraded (for free) NTL 300K connection and it says it will take 2hours 15mins from now and i have done 7.05Mb so far. Here is me hoping it does after waiting that long for it to download.

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Hehe, took me 35 seconds to download the entire 266 MB.

Morten.

that a mega fast download rate, nice one. Took my 2.5 hours the other night. Its all installed now, with the extra security things i don't like (hence i turned them off). the computer is running faster now

peaster2k said:

that a mega fast download rate, nice one. Took my 2.5 hours the other night. Its all installed now, with the extra security things i don't like (hence i turned them off). the computer is running faster now

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Yeah I know, fast as hell. School's line is the best in town.

What extra security settings are you mentioning? I have XP's firewall installed with F-Secure anti-virus (has NEVER let me down in 5 years!!!) running on the side.

Morten.

you get more internet security options, i.e. pop up blocker. which i have found useless already as some sites i go on use the pop feature and it stopped me from using them. hence i tuened that off. Also it installs a virus protection and brings the XP firewall and automatic updates more in your face, i.e. keeps asking you more about your settings etc. I have tuned all of these off as i am running Macfee AV and Zonealarm Firewall which has not failed me yet, one of the reason why u turn it off.

Took me just under 30 mins to download it, disabled ICF because I already use ZAP and I use Firefox (superior browser 10x better than IE) so spyware isn't a problem for me

i am still using IE and have not had a problem with spyware cause of the setup i am running. I use a little program called spy sweeper to kill any spyware that i get. Since i last formatted the pc 3 months ago i have not had one bit

IE is an insecure, and generally unstable browser compared to many others out there. Whilst it may have been the best a couple of years ago, the competion have overtaken it in terms of quality