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"My tonic may be your poison!". The introduction of Windows XP SP2 will undoubtedly greatly enhance the protection of Windows XP in system security, but for many institutional users or individual users, rushing to install SP2 in the operating system may not bring them the greatest benefit. . For example, software compatibility issues, so far Microsoft has listed hundreds of applications that may generate large and small conflicts with SP2. Also included are Microsoft's own software products, such as Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, and Visual Studio.Net. Many users may intend to suspend the installation of SP2 before they can completely solve these problems.

to give the user a period of adjustment or transition period will not be compatible with SP2 application software upgrades, as well as allowing users to complete the upgrade of various types of testing required when SP2, Microsoft specially prepared for the user to install some of the suspension of SP2 The program prevents the user's computer from accidentally downloading and installing SP2 from Windows Update or Automatic Update.

we all know, SP2 is the operating system of Windows Update or Automatic Update feature to download and install. However, if you want to avoid accidentally downloading SP2 without starting Windows Update or turning off Automatic Update, this will cause users to miss other important upgrade downloads, which may seem a bit "druin". The system administrator can use the upgrade management system such as SUS (Software Update Services) to control the computer system in the LAN to selectively update and download. The problem is that not all users have set up and adopted this management system. Therefore, if you want to prohibit the accidental download and installation of SP2 for the first time, users should use any of the following methods provided by Microsoft.

a group policy

If the LAN is running the Active Directory Group Policy, ADM template file provided by Microsoft specifically, the system administrator will be able to quickly and easily to a central co-ordination method , for each computer in the LAN to suspend download and install SP2 settings.

Second, the implementation of special programs

For users not using Group Policy, Microsoft provides an executable file named XPSP2Blocker.exe of, and to a program written in Visual Basic for users use.

XPSP2Blocker.exe must command line in Windows XP "Command-line" mode of operation, if the fitting parameters "/B" is used (ie running XPSP2Blocker.exe /B), it can prevent the system from Download and install SP2 in Windows Update or Automatic Update. As for the lifting of the ban, simply execute XPSP2Blocker.exe /U in the command line mode.

In addition, Microsoft also provides a sample program written in two Visual Basic.

first sample allows the user (the need for a system administrator or domain administrator) one-time setup to specify multiple computers in the network. The method is: Open Notepad (exepad.exe) program, copy the sample program (sample download address: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/solutions/blockxpsp2-multi.mspx) into Notepad, And save it as a file with a .vbs suffix. Then create another notebook file, record the name of each computer in the following arrangement, and save it as a file named Hosts.csv. Content

Hosts.csv files include:

client1, b

client2, u

server1, b

server2, u

(which client1, client2, server1 and server2 on behalf of computer name, b represents the ban, u represents the lifting of the ban. the last line, do not press the Enter key)

Finally, run the vbs file with the following method : cscript blockxpsp2-multi.vbs

second program samples can be individually set from any computer on the network. Also copy the program sample (sample download address: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/solutions/blockxpsp2.mspx3/) into Notepad and save it as a VBS file, such as blockxpsp2.vbs. Then press the following command line can be run:

cscript blockxpsp2.vbs /b client1 (b behalf ban, client1 on behalf of the computer name)

Third, e-mail

If you don't use the above two methods, Microsoft also prepares two samples of Word documents for everyone. The system administrator only needs to send the files to the user by email. The user just clicks the URL link in the Word document, and the related computer. It will be set automatically.

to note that computer users need to have the relevant identity system administrator.

four, modifying the registry file

Finally, the user can also modify the registry file (Registry) to either block the way. Enter "regedit" in the "Start" of Windows XP, run the registry editor, look for the following primary key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdate, add a DWORD value named "DoNotAllowsXPSP2", enter the value "1", this can be set to It is forbidden to download and install the SP2 upgrade package from Windows Update. All EXE files, ADM files and Word documents

above methods involved, all available at the following link address one-time download (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/&#LinkId =33517), they are contained in a self-extracting file called XPSP2BlockerTools.exe.

Finally, one thing we must note that, SP2 prohibited method described in this article are suspended nature. After all, SP2 is a major update, and eventually Windows SP systems must install it. Therefore, the prohibition setting is limited, for a total of 120 days. That is, starting from August 16, 2004, the expiration time is December 14, 2004. When the deadline is up, all the above settings will no longer take effect. Windows Update and Automatic Update will re-enable download and install SP2. In addition, even after the above blocking settings, users can still use the CD or other means, such as downloading and then running from the Internet to install SP2.