Comments on: Windows XP SP3 Cheat Sheet

By: jun

jun — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:19:39 +0000

first im having lots of problem installing sp3 and when i succeed installing it another problem occurred. if I play 3d games my pc hangs. then i find hard time restarting my Pc. I decided to moved all my files to drive D. then reformat my pc using the sp3. delete the drive C to reinstall the sp3. succeed and no problem anymore playing 3D games.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:25 +0000

All,

Thanks for the tips but I finally needed to redo my entire system as it now crawls across the 'Net.
I wiped out the C: drive (thank goodness all data is on D:), reformatted and installed the initial WinXP Sp1 that came with the system and installed drivers, then installed SP3 automatically and viola! – Perfect install and runs like a supped up Porsche. Probably the only way to go – could not install SP3 before doing it this way and also freed up 3/4 of the OS drive at the same time!

By: Speedy XP

Speedy XP — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:28:08 +0000

Anybody heard of SP3 problems with Acer laptops (TM8100). I would like to install SP3 but am worried to brick my PC …

In the meantime, I am keeping my XP clean and fast (http://www.hl7.com.au/Fix&Optimize-Slow-Windows-XP.htm)

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:24:54 +0000

SP3 installed no problem on a
Asus Intel C2D T9300 laptop last month. Yesterday I installed SP3 on an old AMD Athlon FX53 with a MSI K8N Neo2 mobo. I made backups, held my breath and SP3 installed fine. If it had trashed my rigs I'd have been real angry like other posters, but here it installed just like a bunch of highly paid MS coders should write it.

By: Genghis

Genghis — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:41:38 +0000

I don't know about XP SP3 but I think that I'll wait until I hear less complaints about it before I install it on my machines. I DO KNOW that I abhor Vista. What a disappointment. I think that the Video Professor finds it tailor-made to his product line, as the user interface seems ridiculously alien to most XP users. I'll try to keep truckin' with my XP Pro (MCE) with SP2 for as long as I can. Hey, I might have to go back to a pad & pencil (for work) and reading the newspaper & comic strips (for fun & info)before it's all said and done. I don't know if I can be that tough again.

By: FRYED

FRYED — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:52:10 +0000

NEW extream graghics driver and app. accelerator,that allows for better detection of hard drives larger than 137 GB`ts. Addresses the problem i had, but a little late after one of my drives got to hot and shorted out.

By: FRY

FRY — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:40:40 +0000

SP3 FRIED my computer i started to smell burning rubber or plastic,then i saw it was stuck on autodectet drives. My computer was so hott i could have fried an egg on it and YES i would like to shuve sp3 up gill dates bass! It is not that i like to complain i just do not like and will not let people get away with injustice. Microsoft started develeping vista before XP,when the final product was releasted they saw what many workers were tryng to warn the others about.Any honest worker that had aneything to do with VISTA will tell you that everybody knew that they should have gone back to the drawing bord.But they didnt they realiced a program with known design flaws,DO NOT COMPRIMISE BECAUSE IF ENOUGH PEOPLE DO THEN IT WILL BECOME COMMON PRACTICE.

By: Dennis A Dort

Dennis A Dort — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:09:35 +0000

I installed SP3 after turning of anti-virus and firewall. I suddenly had all kinds of program "pop-ups" at startup, that were driving me crazy! So I un-installed SP3. But I still have program "pop-ups" at start up, but not as many and some now turn themselves off. Overall, SP3 still left my computer a mess !!! Have an off-brand computer with an AMD 1.4 Ghz processor and over 704 DDR MB ram.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:31:42 +0000

I have a Dell 8200 and a Dell laptop both are XP Pro pcs. I have tried and failed to install on both. I just cancelled the install after 6 hours on the desktop and 2 hours on the laptop. I had Windows firewall and AVG free verion 8 running. After reading everyone's comments I have decided to avoid this update. The trouble is that MS Update doesn't find any other updates now just the SP3 waiting installation. So, it would seem that if we don't install SP3 we won't maybe able to download any other updates. Incidentally, my last update on the laptop was the 20th June and on the desktop -four on the 11th July. My download history for the desktop lists two cnacelled attempts to install SP3. Whereas, the laptop doesn't list the cancelled install.

By: spoken

spoken — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:43:15 +0000

SP3 on 3 machines…no problems and they get heavy use. Although
my main box is Suse Linux…no problems there either!!