From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Installed SP2 on Andrews new 2.4gig Athalon on Thursday, the whole install
took 20 minutes to complete.  It was fully patched prior to that.

Interesting the changes.  We have NAV 2004 (WinVirus), but the security
console claims that there is no AV installed.  I had to disable the AV
monitoring in the Security console.  The gray bar drop down in IE I think
is good thing for people who don't know what's being downloaded and why, so
I've left that intact for now.

Also, got a copy of Firefox for Andrew to play with.  It's really fast at
rendering pages, for sure.

--
Glenn M.


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
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>
> > I think he is saying that Windows Update builds the same 250-odd MB
service
> > pack as the download version, and then once it is all put together, the
> > same SP2 installer is run. When WU is putting together the large SP, it
> > takes advantage of files that are already on the computer.
>
> I don't believe it's the same, the full version doesn't care if you have
patch
> XXX installed, if that patch is part of SP2 then installing the service
pack
> will reinstall that patch along with all the others. WU doesn't do that in
> order to save bandwidth.
>
> So even if they use the exact same piece of code to check, the check is
ignored
> in the full version of the SP. That's why it takes so long to install.
>
> Simple enough test though, install the full version a second time and see
if it
> installs anything, WU won't.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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