Frustrating experience with Automatic Updates and SP2

Lawn...

I'd like a status report on your SP2 Automatic Update.

Hawk

 

The way you have been hopping up and down, fuzzing and peeing your pants all week about this I am not surprised you are frustrated. Just have a little patience for god's sake! You will get SP2 eventually, promise...

No, I am sorry if I wasn't clear, maybe I should have added a smiley there. You are not aggravting me at all. "Amusing" would be a better word...

        Something is downloading right now.  Double-clicking on the AU icon in systray doesn't bring up any info.  Status has been at 0% for 10 minutes now.

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       Oh sorry!  I didn't realize I was aggravating you so much.

Lawn....

My advise is to not restart.  Let it do its thing.

I'm only doing the AU process for SP-2 so I can learn how MS is doing it.  I have many "very-biginner" friends I can help/assist/advise/etc. about this.

Now with my luck it will begin installing and require a reboot the second Google's IPO starts. 

it may be that it is simply not available.. i read an article, dated aug 17th, that said it was pushed back another 9 days..

At least yours is doing something.  My drive is filled with new files and folders and nothing is happening.  Nor is the AU icon in the sys tray.I also have a download meter running (DU Meter) and nothing is downloading.

Dimension 8300 P4, 2.8 GHz
512MB
WinXP Home SP-1
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T
NEC DVD+R/RW ND-110A
80 GB HD
128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800
SB Live!
Intel PRO 100 VE Integrated NIC
Dual Samsung Syncmaster 192T

     No, SP2 for Home Edition was released on August 18th.  Other people have reported downloading it.  And I received a notification that SP2 was available 30 minutes ago.  SP2 for Pro users should be available on August 25. 

     When I saw the notification window, I clicked "download," the window disappeared and nothing happened.  Then, I rebooted the PC and the AU icon suddenly appeared, saying it was downloading something.  Still at 0%.  Don't know if this is normal or another glitch with AU.  We shall see.

Ahh Ha!!!!  Idleness.  That was my question yesterday.  

My guess would be that it is simply slow. Automatic updates is designed to not interfere with other activities. In particular, if you are using the computer to access the network and browse the internet as you seem to be doing, then AU will be heavily throttled so as to make sure you do not see reduced transfer rates in IE, for example. Now, given the fact that we are talking about what may be an 80MB+ download, which proceeds at a slow transfer rate, you will probably see the 0% for quite a while. Things should get faster if you do not use your machine for a while, but I don't know what the capacity of MS' servers, or the capacity of your ISP's connection (wich is receiving all those AU streams in parallel) is. Both are certainly limited, so even if you do not touch your computer for a while, the download may still take hours. Again, patience is the word...

Message Edited by Dietmar on 08-19-2004 10:28 AM

Anyone heard if you need SP-1a or even the roll up installed first, before window's update will download SP-2 ?

Ahh Ha!!!!  Idleness.

No. Patience!!!

I seem to recall Denny Denham responding to this question in a recent post saying the SP2 install doesn't require SP1 installed first.   

Another thought! . I am going to send for the CD since I have dial-up. Too cheep to get DSL.  If I don't get around to installing it for a few weeks, after all the pros and cons have been digested...will there any more up dates applicable to SP1, and would they have to be installed   before SP2, or is SP2 the whole new ballgame and anything else MS finds and creates a patch for would have to be installed after SP2. Hope I haven't made this too confusing. 

Message Edited by dalem29 on 08-19-2004 12:57 PM