September 14, 2004
XP SP2 WTF?
XP Service Pack 2 didn't start to annoy me until last week when I installed it on my laptop. Now I am left with a buch of broken apps, hardware and other annoyances. Ethereal no longer works, because Winpcap isn't allowed to make raw socket calls under SP2. My old hermes orinoco card no longer works, but my new one does with the newer hermes chipset. And the most annoying thing of all, that stupid Security Center. It was alerting me that I am not protected by the Windows Firewall and that I should enable it. Arghhh... I'm behind a NAT at work/ home and have my own software for locking down my PC when I bring it elsewhere.
As if that wasn't bad enough, I go to disable the notification about the firewall. I thought XP and I had an understanding that I wasn't going to use its firewall and it was going to accept that.
But I still get the stupid baloon warning me about the firewall settings every time I boot up my laptop. WTF?
But, just my luck... True to windows fashion "Security Center" is a service and can be stopped dead in its tracks.
start -> run -> services.msc
scroll down to "security center" and open it up.
click stop, and change the dropdown selection from "automatic" to "disabled"
Once you apply that, you won't have to deal with windows second guessing you on your firewall, anti-virus, auto-update settings.
Posted by mike at September 14, 2004 1:57 AM