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Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 10:20
by tonymadge
I will go with your advice Dave :)

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 12:39
by 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 :lol:

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 12:58
by 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.

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 13:10
by 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.

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 22:54
by Tomliner
Installed SP3 some time ago and haven't noticed any differences - good or bad. :dunno: EricT

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 23:46
by Kevin Farnell
I've had XP SP3 since its release, and haven't had a single issue.

Kevin

Re: XP sp3 and Vista Sp1 ready and waiting ...

Posted: 20 Jul 2008, 03:54
by 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.