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re: SP3 will not install
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rich
(5 messages posted)
The info on SP3 is NOT getting out, though. I just happened upon it yesterday via
Windows Update, which showed it as a critical update and said nothing about doing
any preparation! My install failed ( my CPU is AMD) so THEN I started to look into
it more. Before I did the "Update," I did quickly and briefly Google SP3 and "cautions"
and "warnings" but did not see a wave of problems.....Now I know to stay away from
it for a while and to look into it first. Thanks for the info, all of you!
On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 11:52 am, Larry wrote:
>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...
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