Re: SP3 uninstall question

xylophone wrote:
Bear,

Perhaps. One final question (?), how do I tell if I have SP2 installed - not in Add/Remove - so not installed?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23uSDm0a3IHA.3480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Why do you [think] the Sony program should be supported in SP3, too
Because very little in SP3 is new.

List of fixes that are included in WinXP SP3
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480

If you started out with WinXP SP1 and then installed SP3, uninstalling SP3 would return the machine to WinXP SP1.

If you started out with WinXP SP1, installed SP2 (which isn't necessary), and then installed SP3, uninstalling SP3 would return the machine to WinXP SP2.

[It might be time to get a new camcorder, ya know?]
--
~PA Bear


xylophone wrote:
Thanks, Bear, for hanging in here. I find your comment most interesting as
it reflects, if it does, my own view that things SP2 should be compatible
with SP3. In my case, I say that because I understand SP3 is no more or
less, as it were, than a collection of updates, and on that basis quite
different from SP2.

Question 1. Why do you the Sony program should be supported in SP3, too

Question 2 As I reinstalled form SP1 to SP3, I understood you to say
earlier in this thread that I missed out on SP2, in that if I uninstalled
SP3 I would revert to SP1. Is that correct? This is important because if
so, the question whether my Sony program (SP2) might be compatible with SP3
is academic, since I still couldn't use it.


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Of the Sony application was not supported in WinXP SP1 but it is in WinXP
SP2, I should think (but certainly cannot confirm) that it should be
supported in SP3, too.

xylophone wrote:
JS

Thanks. I think Bear has answered the technical question.

It may interest you, and Bear, that the reason for the Windows reinstall
was
that I installed
the Sony program, stupidly, without checking it was SP1. It wasn't.
I excuse myself to a large extent in that the program should have said
when
I tied to run it, beware, this is an SP2 program (you are on SP1).
Everyone
who knows about these things agrees with me this is what should have
happened, it didn't, and it has been suggested to me strongly that this
is
bad program design on Sony's part. After the program installed, my SP1
machine became unbelievably slow, so much so, Dell confirmed a reinstall
of
Windows was necessary. I did that, and in the trauma of that (I am very
nervous in such situations), I just went for SP3, on the basis that if I
wanted to get up to date, I might as well get fully up to date. If the
Sony
program is no good for SP3, on which the retailer willl advise me, I
can't
take stuff off the camcorder onto my PC. At least, that is how I see it
as
of now. Perhaps there is another program Sony say I could use to do so.
I
only bought the thing a few weeks ago, so my best bet might well be to
return the item to the retailer and get my money back, if the retailer
will
play ball. What a complicated web we sometimes weave - all because I
didn't
read the install instructions 100% - the OS bit was on another page of
the
guide.!! An object lesson for us all.



you that
"JS" <@> wrote in message news:%23Ei3MiS3IHA.3384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Uninstall SP3, Install SP2
(since you implied you went straight from SP1 to SP3).

Install Sony camcorder program, verify Sony program works OK,
Then install SP3 and again verify Sony program still works OK.

JS

"xylophone" <m-rharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Dell XP was on SP1. Had to reinstall Windows. Chose to do so to
SP3.
Used Dell reinstall CD and
thereafter Microsoft/Windows Update. Works perfectly. Now, may have
to
consider
uninstalling SP3 in order to install a Sony camcorder program which is
SP2. Enquiring via retailer if program OK with SP3 (Sony website not
mention SP3, at all: why not?). Meantime, I see in Add/Remove I can
uninstall SP3 there. My question is - if I do so, and bearing in mind I
reinstalled Windows to SP3, will the uninstall take me back to SP2?
Might there be problems there? The reinstall was traumatic, and I don't
want to reinstall Windows again if I can possibly avoid it.
Advice/comments?


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