RE: Windows XP SP3 error

Dear Microsoft Support:

In the unlikely event that you should actually read this, please consider
this letter as an assignment by my personal counselor as therapy. It has come
to this…and I composed this offline so I would not get hacked.

It is obvious Microsoft has a problem with Win XP SP3, but is responding to
it like a frozen wooly mammoth. I receive different errors each time I
attempt to install it.
Here is my most recent error message:

“Installation Failure

Error Code: 0x8007054F

(And the canned suggestion:)

Try to install the update again, or request help from one of the following
resources.

For self-help options:
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Find Solutions
• Windows Update Newsgroup

For assisted support options:
• Microsoft Online Assisted Support (no-cost for issues related to getting
updates)”

Done... Done... Done... Done and done! No chages noted. No real fixes noted.

The problem hass always been listed as a WIN XP System32 executable file in
use by an unspecified application. It is a different file each time. Yet,
Task Manager does not list the named file as running, and all applications,
except the Install Wizzard, are shut down.

I now am ignoring the Microsoft induced urge (URGENT – upgrade NOW) to waste
hours on my personal laptop attempting to install an un-installable service
pack.

SP3 will probably never work with the MS operating system packaged in my
Hewlett-Packard machine.

As a controls system software professional, I only test my own company's
software product on lab machines with the commercially purchased version of
MS Pro operating systems. The versions sold to HP and other computer
manufacturers are actually quite different than the “Gold” commercial
version. I can't meet ISO 9000 standards if I don't use the commercial
versions of Microsoft product.

I am unimpressed with WIN XP SP3 as a half-baked effort, for show only, for
software which Microsoft will soon withdraw support for. This a shameless
push by Microsoft to brow-beat users into upgrading their perfectly
acceptable Windows XP suites to Windows Vista.

I have submitted reports to Microsoft and attempted to get a response from
support, but have been ..... IGNORED. I suppose when you dominate a market
without a viable competitor for unhappy customers to switch to, you don't
really have to be concerned with customer satisfaction.

Shame on you Gates. I grew up in Seattle with you and knew your friends at
Lakeside. You were arrogant in prep school and your corporation has adopted
the same arrogance - the child has embraced the same character traits as the
parent.
--
orcas-boat


"qithasn" wrote:

I have tried installing SP3 at least 5 times now. Each time it fails in the
middle of the install. When I check on the update page as to why I get this
"Error Code: 0x80070005" I think it has something to do with my registry, but
am not sure. So I have no idea really how to fix the problem. Further
either indirectly (because I don't have SP3) or simply the because the error
is effecting other things, many of the important updates I have tried to
install since SP3 have failed as well. It seems most have this error
code"Error Code: 0x8007F0ED" any help would be appreciated!


"qithasn" wrote:

I have tried installing SP3 at least 5 times now. Each time it fails in the
middle of the install. When I check on the update page as to why I get this
"Error Code: 0x80070005" I think it has something to do with my registry, but
am not sure. So I have no idea really how to fix the problem. Further
either indirectly (because I don't have SP3) or simply the because the error
is effecting other things, many of the important updates I have tried to
install since SP3 have failed as well. It seems most have this error
code"Error Code: 0x8007F0ED" any help would be appreciated!
.

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