Grrrrr SP2

[mmonnin]

Well I installed SP2 last night and rebooted this morning and its already pissing me off.

How do I get rid of the damn Windows Security Alert thing in my system tray.

Windows Messenger is back, at least in the tools menu.

It took away my theme and I cant get it back. I dont remember exactly how I got in the first place. I have a .theme file and a .msstyles file that I clicked on but I dont that the different options in the appearance tab under the down down box 'windows and buttons'.

Its driving me nuts already and I have only had it for 5 mintutes.

[Access_Denied]

my suggestion (what i did also) Start>control panel>add remove programs and nuke that sob.. i had it for about a day and fortmatted then realized on moms computer that it can be uninstalled, farther lowering my opinion. :shakehead

[QCH]

SP2, IMO, is really saved my PC's and my 200 users a lot of hassle. It takes some getting use to. I think there is a registry setting to turn off the toolbar notification. Norton Security 2005 found a way to disable it and replace it with their own...

[csimon]

try services.msc>Security Center click stop then disable it

[mmonnin]

Blackhawk helped me out with the Theme thing. I had to use Style XP even tho it worked before without it.

I almost succommed to leaving Auto Updates on all the time just to get rid of the icon. I didnt know SP2 install another service. Thanks Chris.

[csimon]

Blackhawk helped me out with the Theme thing. I had to use Style XP even tho it worked before without it.

I almost succommed to leaving Auto Updates on all the time just to get rid of the icon. I didnt know SP2 install another service. Thanks Chris.
yeah buddy!
well i installed it 3 times so far here at school in this past week.
I noticed that if I just update to sp2 then msn explorer is ok but if I do a fresh install of winxp + sp2 then msn wants me to pay for it.
So ...I won't be using msn explorer anymore from here! :bawling: ;D

[tcith]

I have zero issues with SP2 - installed it on many many many computers with zero issues
I install with firewall disabled and use 3rd party firewall

The alerts are easy to disable

Goto control pannel - Windows Security Centre
then select the "change the way security centre alerts me" in the left column and viola.

Other than that all the machines I have installed on have run better and the users, my mum (aussie spelling) especially, it has greatly reduced her spyware take up. (I usually have to clean her machine on a regular basis)

I select for auto updates the "download updates but let me choose when I want to instal them" that way I know what it's up to and can choose when I want it to act or discard those I don;t want.

[Giancanna]

How do I get rid of the damn Windows Security Alert thing in my system tray.

Some versions of SP2 don't have as many annoyances, I know exactly what you're talking about and didn't have the same problems in the final version, only the beta versions. You can either peruse the control panel for the Windows Security options, or search google for a direct approach to turning it off.

Windows Messenger is back, at least in the tools menu.

You may want to put this string into your Run window, it removes Windows Messenger if it's installed, and then it's up to you to download MSN Messenger if you want to. Here's the uninstall string:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

It took away my theme and I cant get it back.

Try using a Theme Manager of some sort to get it back, TuneUp Winstyler might be able to handle it but don't hold me to it.

Its driving me nuts already and I have only had it for 5 mintutes.

The system defaults on SP2 are more secure than previous versions, for example NetBIOS is turned off, the RPC vulnerability is fixed, etc. So if it takes a half an hour to an hour to fine tune it to your liking, you're still much better off! :)

[mmonnin]

Messenger in fact wasnt back. IT was just listed under Tools in IE where it wasnt before.

[Giancanna]

Good deal, hope the other suggestions come in handy or the problems are already resolved :)

[mmonnin]

Yep I am good to go...for now that is.:)