XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

[nigelb]

As I have said before regarding XP service pack 3, I am waiting for the final release and then I am going to wait a few weeks to see what others experience. My philosophy is I don't have the time or patience to beta test Microsoft products.

Selfish, I suppose, but we are talking about Microsoft here! :@

[airboatr]

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[Chris Sykes]

rom what ive been told the SP3 XP is back into beta... :roll:

[Chris_UKMIL]

XPSP3 was never out of BETA, it was put onto RC status, that was all.


NEVER, EVER download an update of Windoze Update without checking it's KB first!

[Chris_UKMIL]

OK, I've just downloaded VSP1, hopefully it'll do something to speed Vista up!

[TSR2]

Chris, I can assure you it won't make a difference to speed on a stand alone machine (i.e. one that isn't joined to a domain) ;-)

[Chris_UKMIL]

so that's M$'s KB info out the window; they say "faster boot times" and "increase system alertness"

I've yet to receive either, will perform some more tests later!

[TSR2]

It does make a massive improvement for Domain attached machines on a business network, but not much difference for a home user. ;-)

[Rich]

Windows XP service pack 3 is being pushed on automatic update now, after all the horror stories I found with Googling I have turned off auto update till the horror stories subside, has anyone allowed the auto update had any problems

[DaveB]

Rich..

You can decline XP SP3 (unless you have update set to auto download and install)

I have SP3 on a 'new load' XP system (XPSP2 clean install followed by SP3 then FS9, FSX e t c) and the pc itself runs fine. FSX seems totally unfussed but I'm seeing odd things happen in FS9.. so much so I don't use FS9 on that pc :-( I honestly couldn't say if SP3 is the culprit but I'm fed up of seeing g3d.dll.. g2d.dll.. terrain.dll and unknown module errors I won't be putting SP3 on my other systems for a while.

ATB

DaveB :tab: