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08-28-2003, 08:06 PM
Microsoft was supposed to release SP2 later this year but has announced that the release date was a typo and will be released late Q3 of 2004.
In the meantime we are experiencing a troublesome error that is more annoying than harmful. When a user goes into Word or any office product and opens a file that is on a network drive, XP holds the file locked in their username and will not let anyone, including the user opening it to reopen the file. It will keep coming up as a file lock or access denied error. This will keep happening until the user either shuts down their machine or logs off the network. My employees are having a difficult time working with this problem and I would hate to have to have everyone downgraded to a lower OS.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue and have you developed a work around?
Here is a link describing the problem. Microsoft's answer is to wait unti SP2 comes out... that is NOT good enough. Their other workaround does not even exist in the XP registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;812937 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812937)
In the meantime we are experiencing a troublesome error that is more annoying than harmful. When a user goes into Word or any office product and opens a file that is on a network drive, XP holds the file locked in their username and will not let anyone, including the user opening it to reopen the file. It will keep coming up as a file lock or access denied error. This will keep happening until the user either shuts down their machine or logs off the network. My employees are having a difficult time working with this problem and I would hate to have to have everyone downgraded to a lower OS.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue and have you developed a work around?
Here is a link describing the problem. Microsoft's answer is to wait unti SP2 comes out... that is NOT good enough. Their other workaround does not even exist in the XP registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;812937 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812937)