OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19774/Windows_XP_SP3_s_Aches_Pains_and_User_Complaints Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:56:04 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315303 http://osnews.com/thread?315303 None of the users whose systems I installed SP3 have complained, or noticed any difference. Thu, 22 May 2008 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Angel Blue01) Comments RE: None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315364 http://osnews.com/thread?315364 Well, as one of the users that did experience issues, I can certainly tell you that SP3 isn't a total bed of roses. I installed the final RC (in fact, a few days before the release was marked as Gold). System boot up took at LEAST ten minutes, sometimes longer. Once in the system, it ran like a dog. Like I had installed XP onto a Pentium 133 with 64mb of RAM on a 5gb HDD. That bad. I put up with it for a few nights and said screw that and rolled back the install. I had expected the rollback to **** up, but thankfully it didn't. After that experience, I certainly won't touch SP3. SP2 for this lad. SP3 offers SFA advantages anyway.

Dave Fri, 23 May 2008 12:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (melkor) Comments RE[2]: None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315367 http://osnews.com/thread?315367 Well, I had a couple of problems with SP3 on my machine(s) but since I know what I'm doing, I was able to iron them out. Sorry you couldn't. Fri, 23 May 2008 12:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments RE[3]: None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315378 http://osnews.com/thread?315378 we've had several issues with it. The dreaded endless reboot, among other things.

Didn't SP2 have the same issue when it first came out? Fri, 23 May 2008 13:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments When SP3 (or Vista) install doesn't go well... http://osnews.com/thread?315468 http://osnews.com/thread?315468 ... switch to Linux or *BSD... ;) Fri, 23 May 2008 23:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (obsidian) Comments RE: When SP3 (or Vista) install doesn't go well... http://osnews.com/thread?315550 http://osnews.com/thread?315550
... switch to Linux or *BSD... ;)


Ha! My upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 was worse than my WinXP SP3 update.

Thankfully, with a little bit of digging, everything is working relatively well. I wish I could say the same for my Leopard installation.

Anyway, I feel bad for those who suffered with the SP3 problems. Some of it was apparently avoidable. Sun, 25 May 2008 04:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE[4]: None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315553 http://osnews.com/thread?315553 SP2 pre release had lots of issues, I think the final release was pretty stable from memory.

I wasn't going to spend hours fart a$$ing around to try and resolve something that just shouldn't have happened. Linux updates all the time, and it rarely screws up systems like this!!!

Dave Sun, 25 May 2008 06:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (melkor) Comments RE[5]: None yet http://osnews.com/thread?315593 http://osnews.com/thread?315593 yeah, I've only had an update hose things in a linux distro once. But it was spectacular ;) Mon, 26 May 2008 03:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments