Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Shankar Unni
shankarunni@netscape.net
Fri Aug 20 17:48:00 GMT 2004
Avery Bunker wrote:
> I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start
> KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the
> firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to
> be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the
> firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on
> the splash screen.
Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to
open a port doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot
interact with the desktop.
Try starting the KDE processes as ordinary processes and see what alerts
pop up.
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