Windows XP SP2 Build 1213 Beta

[softwareguy]

Microsoft continually works to improve its software. As part of this effort, we develop updates and fixes to recognized issues and release them for customers. On a regular basis, we combine many of these fixes into a single package and make the package available for you to install on your computers. These packages are called Service Packs.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides the latest security and reliability updates to the Windows XP family of operating systems, and includes Internet Explorer 6 SP2. Windows XP SP2 is designed to ensure Windows XP platform compatibility with newly released software and hardware, and includes updates that resolve issues discovered by customers or by Microsoft's internal testing team.

Anybody willing to give this a try?
A beta service pack for Windows XP?

You can download it here:
FTP Server: ftp://download.hirekmedia.hu
Filename: 1213_xpsp2.xBetas.exe
File Size: 0.15GB 152.13 MB

Have Fun!

 

[scarecrow]

For those who were brave/fool enough to try Windows Server 2003 there is also an official beta Service Pack 1 Build 1023.
Some of the most serious charted problems supposed to be fixed by this service pack are:
817472 - IDE ATA and ATAPI Disks Use PIO Mode After Multiple Time-Out or CRC Errors Occur.
817686 - Computer Stops Responding When Running BPStress.exe, Error in UsbhFdoCleanup Process.
817688 - "Error on a Request to Write Data to Media" Error Message When You Use Ntbackup.exe
817689 - Routing Entry Is Not Deleted from the Routing Table After Network Adapter Is Disconnected from the Network.
817690 - When You Disconnect and Reconnect Your Primary Network Adapter, the Secondary Adapter No Longer Works.
817691 - Windows Server 2003 Stops Responding During the Windows Update Process.
817771 - STOP 0xA Error Occurs When a Program Accesses a File on a Single Instance Store Managed Volume.
817789 - Computer Stops Responding with "Stop 0x000000D1 Driver_ IRQL_ Not_Less_Or_Equal" Error Message.
817790 - "STOP 0x000000D1" Error Message When You Try to Run Ntbackup.exe
817812 - System Information Reports Incorrect Number of Processors When You Run an IBM eServer x440 in a 16 - Way Configuration.
817892 - Cannot Connect to a Windows-Based Server That Is Running NAT If the Client Source Port Is 1723.
818053 - Multiple Removal Messages Appear When You Hot Remove SCSI Adapter in Windows Server 2003.
818529 - Download - MS03-020: June, 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer.
819957 - Cannot Drag Objects in the Active Directory Users and Computers Snap-in.
820524 - Computer Does Not Shut Down and You Receive a "System Could Not Find the Environment Option That Was Entered" Error Message When You Schedule a Shutdown Task by Using the AT Command.
820759 - Problems Occur When a Program Tries to Access a USB 2.0 DVD Drive or CD-RW Drive.
821138 - Computer Stops Responding with "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_ EQUAL" Stop Error If CD-ROM Drive or Tape Device Is Connected to SCSI Controller.

 

[softwareguy]

Just tried installing this on my computer...
It has a watermark on the desktop showing that this is only a beta and also it also seems that it has messed up Windows a bit...
Will GoBack soon!
Anyways, hope the final SP2 will be better than the beta!

 

[The-poacher]

To call a microsux piece of S/ware beta is a misnomer most of their stuff is beta even when they say they have finished with it & there will be no more updates

 

[banzibaby]

What poacher says lol

BaNzI

 

[softwareguy]

So an example of that would be Office 97?
Remember to image your drive / use GoBack Auto Revert feature before installing this beta!
I wonder what happens if you don't?