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re: Should I accept SP3?
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 9:27 am
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Posted by bob wells (1132 messages posted)


larry,

thanks for the info. I havn't seen SP3 on CD, care to provide a link to the source.


BW



There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. _________________________________________________________


On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm, Larry wrote:
>I've also installed SP3 on five machines successfully. The main thing to do (per
>MS release notes and how to prepare for SP3) is to disable or uninsall any software
>that provides any kind of system file protection/locking, then reinstall it later.
>BTW, you can buy SPe on CD from MS for five bucks plus shipping. The file sizes from
>the udate site are much smaller. All my downloads were 66MB so the download time
>was minimal via cable. The actual installation time though, after download, was around
>an hour.
>
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Written in response to:
re: Should I accept SP3? (Larry: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Should I accept SP3? (Larry: Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 10:31 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Should I accept SP3? (RM Weston: Mon, May 12, 2008, 2:35 am)
*re: Should I accept SP3? (Mark: Mon, May 12, 2008, 3:31 am)
*re: Should I accept SP3? (Geri: Mon, May 12, 2008, 3:41 am)
-re: Should I accept SP3? (bob wells: Mon, May 12, 2008, 9:01 am)
-re: Should I accept SP3? (Wetjet: Mon, May 12, 2008, 4:56 pm)
-re: Should I accept SP3? (Rich Kurtz: Mon, May 12, 2008, 8:18 pm)
*re: Should I accept SP3? (SteveH: Tue, May 13, 2008, 1:49 pm)
*re: Should I accept SP3? (Steve: Tue, May 13, 2008, 1:52 pm)
-re: Should I accept SP3? (Larry: Wed, May 14, 2008, 1:36 pm)
-re: Should I accept SP3? (bob wells: Thu, May 15, 2008, 9:27 am)
*re: Should I accept SP3? (Larry: Thu, May 15, 2008, 10:31 am)
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