e-B-a-y and WinXP SP2

[Ibateur]

Hey guys and gals,

Anyone know what needs to be done with WinXP SP2 to make it work with e-B-a-y? I recently installed the service pack and now cannot do anything with that favourite auction site...

I know that they have some kind of solution on their page, but I cannot even get to it.

Thanks in advance.

[bammbamm]

Easiest way is uninstall SP2, I consider it the upgrade that was not an upgrade.


Bamm

[fettouhi]

**** should work with WinxP SP2 without a problem. What problems do you have with it?

Regards

André

[Hobophobic]

Originally Posted by bammbamm

Easiest way is uninstall SP2, I consider it the upgrade that was not an upgrade.


Bamm

Yeah, what he said.

[jemsite]

www.mozilla.org

but assuming you don't want to change browsers, IE works great on several XP/sp2 machines here/work. sounds like a browser/settings issue, spyware or user-error ...glen

[Cedric777]

euh mine work fine and there is no problem between **** and SP2 ......
what kind of problem you have ?

[microdmitry]

I have no problem using it from IE, but I use Firefox most of the time, so even if I did have problems I wouldn't notice. :0)

[Ibateur]

Found the problem. It wasn't the upgrade. It was my firewall settings. I didn't change anything... thanks guys.

[Ralsch]

i dont know if this is your sollution but , try enabling your cookies to medium settings and type in e-bay's website in the section of "sites to be allowed".Also if you might want to enable pop ups for **** if you want.I had this same problem when i tried accessing bestbuy's webpage when i first got sp2.

[Ibateur]

Hey Ralsch,

My problem was the "web bugs" setting in my personal firewall. I had to turn it "on". Then, things worked. I also enabled all popups in IE, but am blocking them anyway on the firewall and that seems to have helped my yahoo stuff.

[Two hands31]

Works fine for me...

[pinto79]

Originally Posted by bammbamm

Easiest way is uninstall SP2, I consider it the upgrade that was not an upgrade.


Bamm

My system runs much faster with SP2. It used to take 2 minutes to boot up. Now it's like 20 seconds. I'm happy with it!

[Polaris20]

Originally Posted by pinto79

My system runs much faster with SP2. It used to take 2 minutes to boot up. Now it's like 20 seconds. I'm happy with it!

I kinda doubt it runs "much" faster. I did benchmarks with several different measuring tools, and while SP2 does indeed run slightly faster on the Athlon XP's, 64's, P4-HT's, and centrinos I've run the tests on, it's not a huge difference, and certainly not seat-of-the-pants noticeable.