Re: XP SP3

there is nothing that biologically forces you to wear clothes..

you could remain in doors if its cold outside,
and get in your car that has heating to go from place to place in the
winter..

but you do wear clothes although no one is forcing you to do it

why? lol



"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AliceZ wrote:
I've heard that MS will be releasing SP3 for WinXPsp2, in a month
or so. I searched but did not find any info about it, other than it
will be abour 328MB.

Is this SP3 "coming out" soon? Will everyone who has SP2 be
required to download (?) and install it?

At the moment it appears to me that this SP3 will make many changes
to our computers and possibly cause problems with other programs we
now have installed.

philo wrote:
Huh?

The world has not yet gotten to the point where one is forced to
apply as new service pack. The decision is up to you.

I suspect that once SP3 is officially released...the instances of
problems will be minimal...

hovever you may want to clone your drive prior to applying SP3 just
in-case of problems.

I did test out the pre-release of sp3 and found it made some nice
improvements to my system.

on the Bridge wrote:
Wrong

they force you indirectly, expecially MSFT

there are so many programs that require sp 1 or 2 or else they will
not install

so unless you want to live in a batcave with old ancient non updated
programs you need the service packs.

Many people choose to do this.
Again - you are NOT *forced* to change - especially not by any one entity.

I still know people running Windows 95 happily - as all they want is
something to pop their email with or play an old game they enjoy.

If you change it is because you have decided to 'keep up' with the rest of
the world that is changing around you. You make that decision. Sure - if
you plan on being in a career that utilizes computers in some major way -
you will have to choose whether or not to change because the world you
deal with changes. Again - your choice. There are still many places on
the planet that do not utilize computers and have changed very little in
many many years overall.

Also - the whole thing about blaming one entity for forcing the CHOICE to
change or not is ludicrous. A computer is not comprised of one single
component nor do the factors leading to the change in any product usually
based on one entities choices. It's usually done per requests and or
other factors that influence the product in question to also change -
which likely in turn causes many other products to change and the cycle
goes on like it always has.

What you are saying contradicts itself. You say you have to change (apply
a given service pack to a specific OS), but you add an "unless" - which
means you don't have to change(apply a given service pack to a specific
OS). So what you have done is say you agree that no one forces you to do
anything - but they do... ? Or you have agreed saying that someone does
force you to change - but they don't...? heh

Everything is a choice. You don't even have to use Windows XP - much less
apply said service pack in discussion. You don't have to have a computer
even. Anything else is an assumption.


As for the original poster - it will be out soon enough, you can choose
whether or not you want to install it (taking into factor security
reasons, new software, new hardware, etc) and you should - when doing
anything to your computer, even just using it - ensure you have a decent
backup plan so you at least do not lose the data important to you and
quite possibly a more advanced plan to make it easy to revert back to a
state you were in prior to any bad incidents.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html



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