James

how long should this normally take?

AlexRS2782

Took a total of 2 hours on my laptop including download & installation - then the next time i rebooted my computer found that it had deleted my all my internet connection & ISP settings & i couldnt connect to the internet - ended up having to do an emergency recover on my computer to get internet & ISP settings back - mine is staying on XP SP2 now

Stu.H

Id do new pc installs with SP3 now.

When starting with this as a base, it does seem quite stable from what Ive found.

Now .. Vista Service Pack 1 ... AFPMSL

jonnyboy

took a hour or two on the old desktop but works ok

Stu.H

Why not use a full xp install that includes sp3?

Fil

what issues you got?

not had the blue screen of death since sp1,

tho now the pc shuts itself down after 20mins running in windows media center watching videos ????

Red16

no idea how long this takes, but i'll tell you shortly as ive just started searching for windows updates on my laptop.

Stu.H

Vista



Its lovely

adamS2RST

Anyone else found issues with XP SP3 and RDP? We have...and it seems LOTS of other have too. I must get on to MS about this, this week.....

Shonky

After installing XP SP3 I had a problem with the windows update but adding the following to the trusted sites makes it work:

http://*.update.microsoft.com
https://*.update.microsoft.com
http://download.windowsupdate.com

Red16

still downloading it

Stu.H

vista sp1 is pants - vpn has issues that are unresolved

xp sp3 - fook knows ive just whacked it on my laptop and it seems ok

Red16

installing now, taking ages to do this stage mind

Stu.H

i installed it fresh, not over other user probs, if people are having problems, it WONT fix um!!!

Red16

installed, updated and restarted now, been using it for a few minutes and not had any problems so far... touch wood

slowpoke

the tabbed browsing on ie7 has stopped working on sp

if i try and open a new tab it just crashes internet explorer, tried to re install ie7 but its still not fixed it

really miss my tabbed browsing lol

Matt

mad_on_Series_one

use firefox then mate

Jim Galbally

whats RDP problems? working ok here

Markb_s1

taking us about 20 minutes per machine at the moment.

Jim Galbally

mark, WSUS

CossieRich

iTrader: (1)

seems ok for me

BM08

Xp pro sp2 is working so nicely on my pc that i dont want to install sp3 incase it fucks up or something

Markb_s1

no, but you're not a million miles off....

BM08

Just downloaded it, took about 15-20mins to download/install and then restarting took about 2-3mins then back on with no problems at all, *touch wood*

G2RSR

sp3 works great its been benchmarked on various pc specs and shows a a performance increase over sp2

James

well after 2 hours i gave up ctrl/alt/del and restarted, blue screen came up saying rebooting previous config as setup was interrupted, ran a wizard for something. went to windows update and installed it from there, took about 30 mins. all now running fine!

Magic Numbers

Hour to install

5 minutes to download

BM08

Where did you originally download from then? should always go start bar> all programmes> windows update and it takes you straight there also MS site has got the best download speeds

BM08

Fast internet connection and slow pc then for me its the other way round although my 1meg net downloaded it in just under 20mins so thats not too bad

DanRSturbo

Took about 5 mins to download, 10 mins to install on my machine, the laptop, and the spare machine

BM08

Havent noticed any difference so far really, have you? not done a reboot to check boot up speed yet but just knowing im up to date is good enough for me, wasnt expecting anything spectacular to happen.

James

downloaded from ms website!