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re: SP3 will not install
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 11:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1281 messages posted)
Martin...I generally agree with your comments that if one is up to date with SP2
updates there should be no real rush for most users to install SP3. I think at least
some of the problems the early adopters might be having is not carefully reading
the release notes and "what to do to prepare for SP3" etc. from MS. I spent a good
part of late afternoon yesterday doing that and have updated three machines so far
today. All them installed fine and run flawlessly. MS says that some antivirus programs
and other antimalware programs (Spybots Tea Tmer as an example?) lock certain system
files and thereby cause various installtion failures. Same thing with some firewalls.
So, the thing to do is examine the various types of these apps on your computer and
disable these functions if possible, or to be really safe to uninstall them and reinstall
them after SP3. After doing this, I figured all I probably needed to do was turn
off the Resident Sheild in AVG 8.0, and since I'm behind the "hardware firewall"
of my wireless router I turned off my ZoneAlarm firewall just for the heck of it.
I did these two things ONLY on the machine I was least concerned about and all went
perfectly. I then did the next two and got the same result. I've got several more
to do, and with my experience with SP3 so far I'm not concerned at all. Just my two
cents worth...
On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 2:30 am, MartinM wrote:
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>David,
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>You may care to read through this_thread
>before you decide whether or not to continue with SP3 at this time.
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>If your PC has SP2 and is up-to-date with subsequent fixes then SP3 has little to
>offer, and you may as well let others sort out the bugs before submitting yourself
>to this torture. Things will improve once there's a body of knowledge "out there"
>but today I would just wait unless you have a pressing need for SP3 (and I'll bet
>you don't).
>
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