Comments on: Windows XP SP3 Survey Results

By: 1394net

1394net — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:45:36 +0000

I love this blog! Will come again next time for sure,

By: Bob Saget

Bob Saget — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:18:14 +0000

you are retarded just like MS…first of all they shouldnt make users a test bed for their shitty sp3…sp3 needs to be pulled as it causes all kinds of issues…you suck and so does MS

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:15:01 +0000

XP3….left it running at lunch doing the install…now I cant even get safe mode….cant do a repair with the install disk supplied with the Laptop.
I have instaled 6 times ok and 4 times not on various computers. Its has stuffed this laptop. I try not to install period

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:15:56 +0000

PS: the safe mode start didn't work either.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:03:51 +0000

This morning I updated to SP3 and then it went into some endless reboot loop. Yesterday, after a security update (some VBscript blah blah blah) I had some error message telling me there was some corrupted file on my HD. Today I got the SP3 update message. Downloaded the update, installed… and now I can't use the dektop for more thna 5 minutes, then it crashes and reboot unexpectedly. The desktop has an ASUS P5QL-E Motherboard, Intel Quad Core processor (so I doubt it's an AMD-issue). The laptop I'm using right now works smoothly and has SP3 installed; it's a HP nx6120 with AMD processor. Again, I doubt it's an AMD / HP problem.

Why on earth I decided to upgrade to SP3???

After reading a bunch of forums… I don't feel like spending a week trying to restore system stuff, etc etc… I'm thinking of re-installing SP2 straight and DO NOT upgrade to SP3.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:41:43 +0000

…recently installed SP3 and Windows Media Player 11 began malfunctioning. I tried removing and reinstalling WMA-11 to no avail, so I removed it and rolled back to WMA-10 which is performing properly. I guess I should have left SP3 alone based upon the problems that seem to be inherent it it. Oh, well….live and learn.

By: Jerry N

Jerry N — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:29:10 +0000

I attempted to install XP SP3 on my Dell 340 workstation and it failed, missing necessary files. I prompted it to proceed anyway and it crashed. Afterwards, the search capabilities were gone and I had connectivity issues. So I decided to uninstall SP3, but it couldn't, saying that files that were supposed to be there were not there!? Next, I went into system restore to back it out, but it FAILED! After that I did a "repair" with the original OS disk. Guess what? The repair FAILED, losing all programs and all data in the profiles, the names were there, but no docs, pics or favorites. I had to wipe the f***ing disk and reload from the ground up. I'm an NT MCSE and usually feel fairly confident that I know what I am doing, HAH!
It gets better. The new install took many hours and when it was time to load SP3 I was reluctant, but it was presented as a VERY VERY VERY important update and I'd go straight to hell if I didn't comply. So I loaded the service pack, this time with no errors. My box was fine before all of this BS. Now it takes 30-60 seconds to open my Outlook XP, Word doesn't work (looping through safe mode) and the browser is hindered severely on the web. There is an annoying 5-8 second pause between navigation back and forward, so you click the back button and nothing happens, so you push it again, pause, pause, and then all of the clicks catch up and it flips back several pages at once, so you push forward and nothing happens, so you try again, pause, pause, then it clicks ahead several pages to where you were in the first place. It's like I traded my beefy workstation and broadband connection in for a old piece of PC crap with a 14,400 baud dial up modem. I'm not happy to say the least. Microsoft is a mixed bag, I like them usually, but their unsupported buggy software is undertested and over advertised, and is FAR too expensive. Like I'm gonna pay several hunnerd bucks for Vista, which will have a lifespan of a couple years, which I'll spend beta testing for Microsoft at my irritation and expense. I'm suspicious as hell, and feel the shi* service pack was designed only to f*** up our computers and steer us to the hugely disappointing and expensive pig they call Vista. I will toss my Dell into the sh*tcan before I install that weak effort of an OS. Bill can eat me.

By: Shinsa

Shinsa — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:51:01 +0000

With SP2 my SATA RAID drive speed varies from 90 to 110 (avg about 105) MB/s. After SP3 it drop to a variance of 58 to 82 MB/s (AVG about 79).

Removed SP3, and got my speed back. Re-install SP3, slowed it down again. Can't figure out why.

SIL-3114U-0 SATA 4 port controller with two
Seagate ST380215AS 80GB hard drives, in RAID(0) or STRIPED configuration.

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:51:57 +0000

SP3 is corrupting data on my HDD and my external USB HD's. It is systematically destroying my computer through nefarious means. SP3 is a cancer born from Vista type control over your PC and your files/folders. Stay with SP2. SP3 wants to own your data/hard disk and limit what you can do with your computer. BSOD nightmare and eating my HDD.

By: Badz Balangue

Badz Balangue — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:15:03 +0000

I know it's insane but i am having trouble after installing SP3. I installed XP SP3, delete the System Partition in which the SP3 installed, created new System Partition and formatted so i can install SP2. Here's the problem… the hard drive activity slows down(tried it on 2 hard drive installed the SP3 then SP2) also the CPU activity always at 100%.

Does anyone have the same problem?