XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

[airboatr]

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[Quixoticish]

XP SP3 is giving quite a nice little performance increase, when I installed it my system felt as though it had just had a re-install, it was very responsive and did everything asked of it when told to do so rather than hanging and waiting a minute or two.

I doubt you'll see a fps improvement but in general I get less hitching and stuttering on everything.

[tonymadge]

Does it install IE7 and Media player 11 or can you choose to leave those out, fianl thing...can it be uninstalled if your not happy??
cheers Tony
XP I am on about

[Chris_UKMIL]

I know they're core in Vista, but I don't think they are in XP, so you should be OK without them.


I might try SP1 soon....just got to mirror my HDD first!!

[TSR2]

In so far as SP1 for Vista is concerned, I've had no problems with it on my x64 machine at home, and its still on there (been a month now)

On my work Laptop... ummm. After installing (32bit this time) my laptop couldn't log on to the domain in work. So I removed it from the domain and added it back in. that worked fine until the next morning when same again, it had lost the machine domain trust. Uninstalled SP1 and all is fine on that one. So a bit of a mix, but at least its working where its needed (at home )

[Chris Sykes]

any one got a link to XP SP3???

[petermcleland]

I tried 3 times to install SP3 for XP on my system but it expands my Registry to over the maximum permitted for the OS...The installation thus fails and cleans itself up...I tried uninstalling several large things like "Lock On" and ran Registry Mechanic to clean things as much as possible but all failed. BTW this is Release Candidate 2 and it may well be fixed in the actual release version, so I'll wait for that before I try again :-(

As for a link...well I would rather recommend waiting till the real version comes up automatically in your Windows Update

[airboatr]

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[tonymadge]

Yes Peter I found that it is not the release version and upon looking at write ups it seems to offer little to the end user if you already have the regular updates, it does not install IE7 but applies fixes to IE7 if you already have it, along with fixes to IE6 I doubt I will bother with it as I am pretty much upto date, just like I should not have bothered updating DX9c as I have found FR drops since!!!! They do say "If it aint broke dont fix it" So I must learn my lesson

[petermcleland]

Yes Peter I found that it is not the release version and upon looking at write ups it seems to offer little to the end user if you already have the regular updates, it does not install IE7 but applies fixes to IE7 if you already have it, along with fixes to IE6 I doubt I will bother with it as I am pretty much upto date, just like I should not have bothered updating DX9c as I have found FR drops since!!!! They do say "If it aint broke dont fix it" So I must learn my lesson

Hi Tony,

Yes, I think I spotted the error in the RC2 install...It loads SP3.CAB TWICE...Once in the middle of the procedure and again just before everything stops to report that your Registry has exceeded the maximum permitted size for the OS :think:

I saw it happen on two install attemps so that confirms that it really does happen :-(