Re: window xp service pack 3

SP3 seems to improve performance (those are the TechBeta testers' reports) and networking is better. I like it better than SP2 for those reasons. You'll probably pick up 5% to 10% in performance in some tasks. Depends on what you do.

"Alias" <iamalias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eCsQ75YdIHA.4972@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
I am irritated by the wga updates. They come any old time and sometimes demand a reboot. I don't know why the wga team is so privileged that they cannot wait for Patch Tuesday like everyone else. (Just venting).

*None* of my three computers that have XP on them have WGA. I use the Auto Updates, inform but don't download or install setting. If WGA should rear its ugly head, I just tell it to not download or install it and to not offer the "update" again.

I like XP and it has served me well. Once SP2 for Vista is out, I'd probably like that too. What I don't like is MS telling me I am a pirate until I jump through their "anti piracy" hoops and prove otherwise. Hence, I started learning Ubuntu Linux and I'm glad I did.

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HEMI - Powered wrote:
Colin Barnhorst added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...
The cd has to be the best choice for dialup folks, especially
the ones in regions where they pay for download time, etc.

A CD is best for everyone, Colin. I've heard numbers from 67MB to 300MB, but no matter what it is, that's iffy even for a cable modem user. I ordered the CD for SP2 back when. But, for this and many other threads, I have yet to see even the remotest compelling reason to even bother if my system is as up-to-date as I want it and it runs fine. Beyond that, why risk a visit from Murphy?

In all fairness to XP, I have never encountered an issue with updates on three machines, two in English and one in Spanish. The only issue I had was when MS decided to rate the WGA tool as "critical". It still installed fine and informed me of what I already knew: my copy of XP was "genuine".

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"HEMI - Powered" <Nyet@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9A4C2E85E6081ReplyScoreID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Colin Barnhorst added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

The upgrade should only be about 65MB on an up to date SP2
system.
WinXP SP3 has not been released.

When it is released, it will be offered to your machine
via Automatic Updates.
Thanks for the warning, you can be damn sure I will NEVER
take advantage of something this huge with the potential
for so much grief via automatic updates!
It isn't the size, even though that large a file is a LONG
download so I would order a CD, it is that I would never
allow autoupdate to attempt such as thing. Call me paranoid
but I have very little confidence in MS's ability to "do it
right the first time". e.g., I NEVER install critical updates
right away, and never all of them at once. I lurk here and
other places to see what early updaters experience. I've
already stated why I wouldn't do an SP3 for any reason, so I
don't need to repeat it.
--
HP, aka Jerry

"Surely you jest - and don't call me Shirley!" - from the
movie "Airplane!"




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