XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

[tonymadge]

I will go with your advice Dave

[DaveG]

I installed SP3 (manually, not via autoupdate) on my system a while back without any problems.
My XP install has had a fair bit of abuse over the past few years, so I'm surprised it worked fine

[nigelb]

After waiting for several weeks for the early adopters to report problems, I finally allowed automatic updates to install SP3 a week or so ago. So far I have not noticed any problems. The computer does appear to boot a little faster, but not significantly faster.

[Quixoticish]

Nothing bad to report at my end either after quite a bit of use with SP3. I installed SP3 manually a few weeks after it was released (I don't use Windows Update so had to do the manual installation) and everything is working as expected, no hiccups.

[Tomliner]

Installed SP3 some time ago and haven't noticed any differences - good or bad. EricT

[Kevin Farnell]

I've had XP SP3 since its release, and haven't had a single issue.

Kevin

[Rich]

Thanks to all, think I will go for the manual update the Ms reccomendation of turning off anti virus and firewall for the auto update does'nt appeal to me.