Re: Is WinXP Sp3 update necessary?

On Apr 17, 11:27 pm, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Roy wrote:
On Apr 17, 9:53 pm, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roy wrote:
Hello Guys, after must trepidation I installed the WinXP3 update
now,,,,as of now I noticed not much an peculiarity except
1) Drastic decrease of free space in the C drive,( by1.4 gb)
2) Slow boot up time..
The installation took about an hour.... and I have to reboot it and
then thats it.
I am keeping my fingers crossed while I have to see what are the
other changes that it may have done to my PCs performance...

SP3 should not increase bootup time. Do you mean the first bootup was
slow but subsequent botups are fine? Or do they continue to be slow?
What method did you use to install it?

Thanks for your reply Dave..
First I tried the windows update, but it failed due to error
notes...so what I did I downloaded the complete file ( about 316 megs
IIRC) and backed up my files dually using the Acronis tru image, as
well as by using the System tools in a separate hard disk. Then re
read all the given salient steps from this thread , shut down
temporarily the Kaspersky Internet Security and Installed the Sp3.
Well it took me almost an hour as if my PC freezes( which gave me some
goosebumps earlier<grin>). Then when the installation is complete I
restarted the PC which normallytook quite a time to boot up ( about 5
minutes?) Then to check the boot up time, I restarted it and it still
took me about 3 minutes....
Before the SP3 installation, the boot up time was just slightly above
a minute.

I wonder what's happening...

Keep in mind that since you imaged your hard drive, you can certainly
restore your most recent image. If it were me, I'd be tempted to do that
and then reinstall SP3, but only after configuring a Clean Boot:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353

I'm guessing there was *still* something running in the background when
you installed SP3. If you have time to experiment, it may be worthwhile
to try it again, using the Best Practices method outlined by Shenan in
an earlier post.

I did some post clean up but just careful not to touch yet the
restore  points and windows back up folder .
I did compress the C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles.  but reluctant to
clean the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download,  and the old hot
fix storage,worrying that if this Sp3 will give problems this might
come handy? Or is still so?
I have noticed that there are 7 restore points but is worried also
that If I remove the 6 and retain the last one,  it might be difficult
to get back to do the system restore if the upgrade plan turns awry in
later time?
Any more ideas and suggestion to further remove all the excess files
during the installation?

Bookmark this page:

http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=33827

But I wouldn't do that right away!

What are the dates of your Restore Points? What date did you apply SP3?

Once you are satisified with your SP3 installation and you tidy up
(removing the tons of files outlined in the link above as well as
deleting old restore points and temp files and even your hiberfil.sys
file if you don't use hibernation -- and you still might have the
Automatic Updates SP3 installation file in that downloads folder!... you
can delete that, too), a defrag would be a great idea.

Last question: what mode do you run Automatic Updates in? For most
people, I recommend "Notify me but don't automatically download or
install them." Actually, I turned mine off and I visit Windows Update
twice a month!- Hide quoted text -

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Well I am unsatisfied with the installation as the boot up time
gradually increased , so there must be something wrong with the sp3
installation, So I went to control panel and Uninstal the sp3, but it
said that is erroneously uninstalled? how was that??? Anyway I went
with the uninstallation, but it seems that the removal from that Add
remove list did not sort the problem as when I checked the system
information there was still Sp3. So what I did was to do the system
restore , few days before I installed the Sp3. But there was one
pecularity after that restore, some softwares just malfunction, like
for example the kaspersky internet security which says that the file
was corrupted.
Anyway I was able to repair it by updating the files twice.
Now , I would like to replace the back up files to what I believe was
an already corrupted system files due to theinstallation and
uninstallation of Sp3 but would want to do it carefully and safely, is
there any simpler way to do it as even if I follow the wizard
Hope somebody could give me some advice on this area.

TIA
.

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