Guest JonathanVerrier Posted August 8, 2004 Report Posted August 8, 2004 If you try and upgrade to the new ROM on here and use XP with SP2( Sevice Pack 2) installed the install will hang if you had your Firewall on, which is now the default. You can unblock the exe file ( VoUpgradeUt.exe) which you can find in the directory where you unpack the files from the upgrade. You have the options to install in to permanent directory or a temporary one, choose the second option for a permanent directory. This may help some people who are nerdish enough to have SP2 installed and not checked the firewall settings. XP SP2 is on general release later this week, some will have early access to this or may be using the beta versions. Of course a true nerd or geek would never have had this problem :-)
Guest Cybertronic Posted August 9, 2004 Report Posted August 9, 2004 Very good post for someone who has just first posted on MoDaCo! :P Welcome! :D
Guest bauer Posted August 9, 2004 Report Posted August 9, 2004 Hi, My rom update hangs, how do i go about unblocking the exe file? i have turned off my zonealarm, getting the same porblem. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Guest Professor Frink Posted August 10, 2004 Report Posted August 10, 2004 It would be a good idea to wait for 30 days before installing XP SP2. I have checked out the SP2 beta and had some compatability problems with it. Let someone else (an early adopter) be the guinea pig, as even Microsoft are intimating that there may be some issues with the final version and some applications. Give it a month and we will have a good idea what these are. If you have a firewall and antivirus correctly installed, you have covered most of what XP SP2 does. :P
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