Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc

Can some one tell or show me what thise Sp3 acctually does beside trouble on pc .Sorry for the offtopic

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Dimitrius07

Can some one tell or show me what thise Sp3 acctually does beside trouble on pc .Sorry for the offtopic

Download the pdf here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Nokia]

Not going to bother installing it. Going to get vista in about a month and don't want to try tos solve the problems that might show up with SP3.

[Officerpuppy]

Murder most foul!

Well, not quite, but time will tell. I had no problems with SP3 till I shutdown my PC, I started it up later in the day and I heard a clicking sound on my HD, now from past experience I know that when that happens that means the HD is in it's death throws but ignored it thinking it was just a fluke. Well, today I boot up the system and I got the clicking again but it was persistant and I get an error saying the system can't boot. Well, after starting up and shutting down several times with the same problem, I opened up my tower and wiggled the wires as a last attempt and started up and although I heard a click, the system booted.

Luckly, I did a system save before installing SP3, so I rolled back and shut down my computer, well it started up minus the clicking. I can only hope that the damage wasin't perminant but I suppose I'll find out the next time I reboot my PC to see if the clicking has really disapeard.

[kiwi_2005]

I turned updates off for good, not going to install sp3 nor any other updates i had a list of 15 before the sp3, i never bothered as winxp is running great. With Vista i update to sp1 as it did have some holes that needed filling!

[Geno_Mariner]

I've switch my auto-update to the option where I have a look before I install. Thankfully SP3 isn't installed yet

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

I turned updates off for good, not going to install sp3 nor any other updates i had a list of 15 before the sp3, i never bothered as winxp is running great. With Vista i update to sp1 as it did have some holes that needed filling!

Most of the recommended updates that the Windows updater recommends are not adding new features and gimmicks, but are closing security holes. Indded, the recommended updates are almost exclusively about closing security holes. You don'T do yourself a favour when not installing these.

I too have autoupdate deactivated, but I manually check once a month. And security updates I install. In the early days until short after SP1, this was sometimes a problem, making me reinstalling the machine many times. Since SP2, no more problems.

I will give it one or two months and then install SP3.

[Segwin]

I just installed it on my home built AMD / ASUS system. After it installed it wouldn't boot, not even into safe mode. Called MS and they said a level two tech would call me on Wednesday.

I Googled around (thank God for Google) and found a thread where others with AMDs were having the same problem. To get it to boot they suggested a USB flashdrive on a usb port. Tried it and it booted right up - I then proceeded to unistall SP3.

When will I ever learn not to patch something right away from MS.