Windows USB 2.0 drivers w/out SP2
Reply #28 – 2005-03-14 16:53:29
I wasn't trying to be an asshole or an elite bastard, by being so stubborn about SP2. I was trying to recommend the optimal solution to your problem. There is a lot of FUD going on with SP2, and to be frank, I'm tired of seeing people not installing service packs, for whatever arbitrary reason they've read on Slashdot. People often argue that it's their own computer, and they are free to do what they want with it, which is true, strictly speaking. But when someones computer starts hitting my servers with Blaster, or whatever the worm of the week is, or is filling my inbox with spam, it becomes my problem too, and they are directly to blame for it, for being too lazy, ignorant or uninformed. So that is why I'm zealous about getting people to keep their systems updated, and in that regard, at least keeping up with service packs is mandatory. [a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=282046"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] I agree with you completely. There's a lot of FUD regarding SP2, fuelled even by some respectable sites like eWeek and ZDNet. The truth is that you can turn off most of the new features in SP2 if you wish, and your computer will run as fast and trouble-free as it was with SP1 (or even faster). As I mentioned a few posts above, DEP can be turned off completely And the firewall, autoupdates and security center can also be turned off completely by typing these simple commands:sc config ALG start= disabled sc config Browser start= disabled sc config SharedAccess start= disabled sc config wscsvc start= disabled sc config wuauserv start= disabled Note: The Computer Browser service needs to be disabled because for some strange reason Microsoft decided to make it dependent on the firewall and will not work unless you have the firewall service running. Cheers.