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Atrocities
September 11th, 2005, 12:00 AM
Ok I have finally got a new HD for the blue box and am in the process of installing Win2k onto the new HD. Installation is complete and I have updated to SP 1 and installed FireFox. My question is, should I go ahead and install the rest of the services Packs? 2, 3, and 4?

Also are there any good sites for helping me set up FireFox to bock pop ups and other pest pop ups?

EaX
September 11th, 2005, 02:36 AM
well, i've w2k with the serv. pack 2, a firewall & av. and i'm pretty clean of viruses and those things. as for firefox i dont know i use opera.

Thermodyne
September 11th, 2005, 11:29 AM
Just put sp4 on it, you don't need the others.

Fyron
September 11th, 2005, 03:19 PM
It is a good idea to install SP4.

Arkcon
September 11th, 2005, 05:08 PM
Atrocities said:
Also are there any good sites for helping me set up FireFox to bock pop ups and other pest pop ups?

You'll want to go to the Mozilla homepage, and get the Adblock plugin. I use that, and the Proxomitron.

Atrocities
September 12th, 2005, 12:13 AM
Thanks guys, SP 4 is in. What is the Authentice Microsoft Validation crap? -

Baron Munchausen
September 12th, 2005, 02:47 AM
It's a new 'anti-piracy' tactic where you have to prove that you have a valid purchased copy of Wind'ohs in order to be allowed to download patches. Since Win 2K is officially 'non-supported' (or soon will be) you probably don't need to bother with that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Atrocities
September 12th, 2005, 07:04 AM
Time to buy a second copy of XP- Professional then. Too bad about Win2k... was a good program.

Whats this new OS they are talking about.... Vista or something?

El_Phil
September 12th, 2005, 08:23 AM
Was called Longhorn, now it has a nice fluffly marketing name. It will have many new and useless features and be epically slower. I don't know this, I'm just going on past performance.