Re: XP SP3

nah... My philosophy is always use the latest and greatest UNLESS its total
crap like vista for example.. LOL

in that case its not latest and greatest
but latest and crapiest


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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.

A very sane and reasonable approach to ANY update, not just a Windows
SP, and exactly the philosophy I use - I ONLY update to get specific
bug fixes or specific new features but NEVER to "keep up" with
anyone.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"And, that's all I'm going to say about that" - Forrest Gump




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