Windows XP users up in arms after SP3 download
by Stevie Smith - May 9 2008, 11:18
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While not the Steve in the other comment, this Steve wanted to offer a few cents worth of commentary. Users are making the normal gripes and complaints about the release, and likewise about the IE7 issue and SP3. The problem is that not all sites have the same post count, there are a few forums where there are pages and pages of rants. So I think up in arms, is a good title for the article IMO.Honestly, the image is what sells it. Steve
Service pack 3 sucks. it crashed my computer twice and just got installed on my lap top which took tow try's. I will not down load it on my last desk top until microsoft clean up there act and I would advise other to do the same.
I have installed SP3 onto a power system 3 yrs old(6 HDD's running onboard Promise RAID (0) and onboard Intel Raid(1) C: drive and a removeable caddy.
A notebook 2 years old entry level.
No problems with either, MUST comment bothe systems were SR2 with all the MS updates and patches, both have AVG licenced antivirus, Office 2003, Photoshop 5.2, MYOB 17 accounting.
There is NO way I will move to VISTA tried problems (1 12 mths ago and then again 3 mths ago) VISTA interface sucks and as for navigation sucks. Office 2007 same interface (ribbon ) and navigation sucks.
We and my clients will be staying on XP PRO and Office 2003 PRO.
There are truths everywhere giving some latitude to make our own better choice. In every infrastructures both good and bad are inate to an imperfect world. That being said, my experiences with both SP3 and Vista Ultimate have been strange indeed. My slowesty, oldliest and most problem prone Intel 945 @ 2.4 Ghtz and 4 Gb of 333 ate XPSP3 up quickly and without any issue. My 2 Dual CPU AMD 64x2 4600 on A8NSLI boards with 4 Gb of 400 DDR2, providing normally flawless graphics to DAW computing, have yet to complete the installation before I punch the reset and watch the restore operation. Both the Windows Update and the ISO Image process have been extremely suckful. Then I have a couple of oc'd Q9300s running 1333 DDR3 on the P35T-D6Q mobo and the Vista experience has been like Ipod nano.These machines score 5.9 out of the 5 point performence standards so I figured that its a simple issue of $6500 and a clean install to be one of the chosen. Vista runs very well except for the scanner dilema and the distaste for MIDI. But it gives you neat solutions for problems which never used to be problems on Shwingg-XP.
I guess if you are not 'up in arms', you must be 'fat, dumb and happy', huh?
I am up in arms! I allowed the sp3 update install and now I do not have the option to do a restore. The fine HP product is just a piece of clutter on my desk, now.
One hour before I had loaded a lot of customer information, including billing and now due to HP's don't give a crap attitude I have to pay them to help me. I don't think so.
I called HP's 'customer no service' to get help and they informed me, very cheerfully I might add, that they could retore my operating system, TODAY, not to worry (with my best Indian accent)by paying them.
It's OVER for HP, for me! I will go back to a stone tablet before I will EVER purchase another product from the scammers.
The good part, though is that I purchased a 3 year warranty from Best Buy, who will now have to 'fix' this hunk of garbage.
In the film and movie industry which we are in, we can't afford to jump in and install just any XP Service Pack that comes online... Everything on our systems can and will be at stake! or even lost!!
I decided way back when first looking into sp2 to hold out for a year and a half before we updated our systems. No problems once all those bugs were worked out...
This morning the opportunity arose once again to become 'Tempted' with the xp-sp3 updates....
Again after reading this sites post and over 20 other complaint related forums, its time once again to just sit back and let every other xp system owner who wants to 'beta' the sp3 beast... live and learn for us!!
Our advice.. Why would you want to 'beta test' this release?... If your SP2 systems are running fine... Don't download sp3 for at least 6 months or longer.. It's just an option friends, and your XP world won't come crashing down for not downloading it....
I do have to say something nice about XP SP3. i downloaded it and i haven't had any problems.....yet. in my personal eXPerience my desktop and my laptop are running faster than when i had sp2. as far as vista goes.....stay away from it. i purchased an HP that came with vista home edition of course and now i'm looking for xp drivers.
I'm actually having a bad experience so far with SP3. Both my iTunes and WMP libraries keep crashing. Not to mention Safari will also occasionally crash but not frequently as the other two. I'm trying to figure it out but meanwhile I can't help but say I didn't really need this update.
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SteveMay 9th, 2008 - 15:09:24
Sorry to be so negative, but really, what a moronic report. Are users really 'up in arms'? I've been in the business since Microsoft started offering service packs, and every one of them has had these kinds of complaints (usually quite a bit worse). Seems to me that this SP is going quite a bit more smoothly than SP2 did (just go back and do a search for SP2 news reports at the time). However, 'SP3 release going smoothly, relatively few complaints' just doesn't have the zingy headline does it?
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