Re: service pack 3, do I need it?
- From: Pdigmking <paugle@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:03 GMT
A little less "snot" would make these responses more helpful.
Why should I install a service pack that will simply re-inatall a bunch
of patches that I've aleady downlaoded? I use the internet, one could
deduce that given the fact that I am posting to newsgroup via the
internet. I need SP3 because I use the internet? According to the MS
PDF there is nothing critical in the new service pack, the only thing in
it that I've not already downloaded as a matter of course is some network
functions and IT functions that I won't use. It seems silly to sit around
for an hour running a service pack this is installing a bunch of stuff
that I've already installed. Am I missing something here?
As far as future upgrades are concerned, my installer has been upgraded a
couple times already. Why should I need an entire service pack to
continue to get patches? Why not just update the installer I (and
others) are using now?
I worry about these large MS service packs. SP3 has crashed some
systems, and MS response seems to be "that's your problem". I ended up
switching to XP from 98 because 98 literally ate itself after a patch
install. XP has been stable and trouble free, but now MS is pushing
Vista, and judging from the Vista on my wifes new laptop, I don't need
it. I'm using a PC that I built, and have maintained for over 6 years.
While it clocks as fast on most proceedures as my new laptops with
supposedly faster technology i.e. dual core processors, faster RAM etc.,
it does have some old components. One of the problems with Vista has
been that it simply won't run on machines with older technology. One of
the things I noticed in the MS PDF was that SP3 was that it includes some
kind of patch for running Vista compatable software on XP machines, this
makes me nervous. Does SP3 contain some Vista stuff that I don't need
but will crash my computer?
Paul
As far as 'needing' SP3 - no. You don't obviously *need* Windows.
You don't *need* to use the Internet for thaqt matter. Or do you - I
actually cannot say what it is that drives you on a daily basis from
this single posting.
I do know that if you plan on continuing to run Windows XP and that
Windows XP has access to the Internet (no matter whose products you
install on top of it) - you should at least consider applying whatever
patches that fill whatever security holes in the base OS that become
available to you.
SP3 is a culmination of patches released (public and otherwise) since
Windows XP SP2 was released as well as a few minor changes. That
means - given your statement, "I've been automatically updating
windows XP for years", you'll probably only have 60-70MB of
patchess/change you don't already have installed. Whethe you get them
or not is (always has been) completely up to you. Sooner or later -
it will become necessary (as it did with SP2) to obtain the last
service pack released before you can install any further updates for
the OS. That time may be a couple of years off. So you get to make
the decision (as always) of what you want to do or not do and live
with whatever consequences come of it. ;-)
.
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