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Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Shankar Unni <shankarunni at netscape dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:23:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
- References: <BAY10-F31eEqG38HM5G0002cfbe@hotmail.com> <cg5a15$mdh$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 12:48 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote:
>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.
Cannot or does not? You can always allow the service to interact with the
desktop.
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