Johncenawlife316
Joined Sat 06/30/07
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| Wed 05/07/08 03:38 PM |
Do not download this. I don't know if any body had the same problem as I did. But when I download it just after searching for updates and I went a head and download it not thinking noting of it and it restarted my pc which I thought noting about after it was done but something happened and it nearly killed my pc. Lucky I end up having to do a fully system removery and run all these updates on everything and redown stuff again, lucky I have High speed cable so things download rather fast for me.
Just thought I pass this along. I may go ahead and write MS about this issue.
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bl4cks4bb4th
Joined Sat 10/27/07
Posts: 1022
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| Wed 05/07/08 03:51 PM |
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I've heard nothing but bad things about the service packs. I just stay away from them altogether.
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Johncenawlife316
Joined Sat 06/30/07
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| Wed 05/07/08 04:14 PM |
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QUOTE:
I've heard nothing but bad things about the service packs. I just stay away from them altogether.
Yeah, the 3rd one was the only one I have ever had problems with as far as I know of.
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moofooga
Joined Thu 01/31/08
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| Wed 05/07/08 07:26 PM |
It should be noted that XP/Vista SP3 is a BETA as of right now and isn't meant for prime-time. As such, it's bound to have loads of problems with it. Heck- depending on where you've downloaded it, it might evne have all sorts of spyware (courtesy of hosting companies hosting bogus versions of the SP).
I've got all the service releases and updates (short of SP3, that is) installed on my copy of XP, and I haven't had ANY problems. At least not yet, that is.
Your best bet would be to wait until the service release is officially released... whenever that is.
That, or just go to Linux.
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Edited by moofooga on Wed 05/07/08 07:28 PM
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wiley
Joined Thu 12/13/07
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| Wed 05/07/08 11:38 PM |
There's nothing wrong with the official versions. And they usually fix a lot of things that are broken when the OS ships. Usually.
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Knightime
Joined Tue 12/04/07
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| Wed 05/07/08 11:48 PM |
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i leave mine on auto update ..
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DanyCJ
Joined Wed 11/07/07
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| Thu 05/08/08 04:00 AM |
It`s only the BETA version , wait for the final version , don`t install it 
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lee_siu_loong
Joined Wed 05/07/08
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| Thu 05/08/08 09:15 AM |
I've loaded and installed the final version of SP3 from the official Microsoft website last weekend and there ain't no problems at all - just a few new drivers, the common security updates and e.g. options for WLAN (WPA2).
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Spidercmb
Joined Fri 04/27/07
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| Thu 05/08/08 09:19 AM |
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I've heard nothing but bad things about the service packs. I just stay away from them altogether.
Service packs are wonderful, I'm not sure what you have heard. Try XP SP1 and XP SP2 and you will see a huge improvement in SP2.
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Johncenawlife316
Joined Sat 06/30/07
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| Wed 05/14/08 10:07 AM |
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Well maybe the problem was when it download from windows update it self, I mean when I checked for updates that's what happened to me. So I don't know.
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