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MS France confirmed SP3

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GalvanizedYankee

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Link. Did a search and only one post came up dated 9/2/05 and it was speculation. i will subscribe to this post to read what you might have to say. I do the hardware end ok but you folks have been a real help as i've searched and lurked here at Operating Systems.


Galvanized
 
I would much prefer a single SP 3 file instead of those 3 dozen plus files which I have to install each time I re-install Windows XP......

 
Originally posted by: STaSh
stop reinstalling every week and you wont have that problem.
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That will work. Or you can make a ghost image after you have installed all of the updates.
 
Originally posted by: timswim78
Maybe it will have WinFS or some of Vista's features.
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I dont think they would include these additional features in a service pack. Most likely SP3 will be a "more typical" service pack - basically just a very large update rollup with additional minor fixes/additions; nothing major (like SP2).

The features that they do back-port to XP will probably be seperatly installable add-ins.

-Erik
 
I reinstall after around six months and by then, the images/slipstreamed cd's are old......

It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
 
Originally posted by: asadasif
I reinstall after around six months and by then, the images/slipstreamed cd's are old......

It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
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why do you reinstall every 6 months?
 
Windows XP SP3 will be available sometime next year--after the launch of Windows Vista, which "is the priority for the development teams," according to Microsoft France.
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Windows Vista won't be released till late 2006. I would assume that means no SP3 until closer to early 2007. Too long away to even start speculating what it might contain.
 
Originally posted by: spherrod
Originally posted by: asadasif
I reinstall after around six months and by then, the images/slipstreamed cd's are old......

It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
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why do you reinstall every 6 months?
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Slow PC with lesser RAM (PIII 700, 128 MB RAM). The notebook (Compaq PM 1.6GHz) works fine but the PIII accumulates too much junk in 6 months from various softwares I use like VS, Corel, Acrobat 7 and the like.
 
Originally posted by: STaSh
It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
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But it isn't irritating to unnecessarily reinstall your OS twice a year?
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It isn't unnecessary when it takes ~1-1.5 minutes to switch from say; Firefox to MS Word and back again during peak usage.......

It is better to re-install OS at that time to clear the junk.....
 
I thought I read somewhere that XP was going to be upgraded for WinFS
but mostly I imagine the new service pack will be about integrating IE7
Oh joy
 
if you have to reinstall every 6 months from "junk", you should fix what you are doing.

Perhaps look into another OS, as I get all the latest files when I install Gentoo, no patching at all after install, but really, windows SHOULDN'T break every 6 months, I have a P3 700 laptop that has the same XP install for 2+ years, although it's thrashed now, and does need a format.
 
Originally posted by: asadasif
Originally posted by: STaSh
It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
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But it isn't irritating to unnecessarily reinstall your OS twice a year?
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It isn't unnecessary when it takes ~1-1.5 minutes to switch from say; Firefox to MS Word and back again during peak usage.......

It is better to re-install OS at that time to clear the junk.....
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Sounds more like you don't have enough RAM in the machine. You said in your above post that you only had 128MB. Going to at least 256 would help out greatly. Much more than reinstalling an OS every 6 months.

 
I was interested in Linux at one point in time but the learning curve sort of put me off. Please don't start extrolling the virtues of Linux and comparing it with Windows. It's a very combustible topic, so to speak. I have read about it plenty in articles and on this forum. I even have it available at my uni PC's (Red Hat 7 or 8, probably 8) but I am just not cut out for Linux. It's all a matter of personal ease and comfort.

I am holding off on upgrading my RAM in favor of getting a new AMD 64 3200+ rig soon, so the problems will be rectified.

Has anyone tried this 'Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack #2...'?
 
It's definitely not from Microsoft. It looks like a collection of patches since SP2. Getting updates from a site other than microsoft.com is really stupid.
 
Originally posted by: MBrown
Originally posted by: corkyg
XP SP3
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Have you tried it yet. Try it out and let us know if its worth it. Its prolly not even legit.
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This isnt a MS service pack; just a bundle of post sp2 patches. As Stash said, if it's not from s trusted source dont run the code...
 
Originally posted by: asadasif
Originally posted by: STaSh
It's just irritating to waste so much time on patching up your OS.
Click to expand...

But it isn't irritating to unnecessarily reinstall your OS twice a year?
Click to expand...

It isn't unnecessary when it takes ~1-1.5 minutes to switch from say; Firefox to MS Word and back again during peak usage.......

It is better to re-install OS at that time to clear the junk.....
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You may not have to reinstall to take care of your problems. Try running CrapCleaner to clear out 'junk' files. Get some more RAM if you can afford it. Also, run some diagnostics on your hdd. It may be a dog.

 
I regularly defragment (Disk Keeper 9) and clear my HDD and registry (Iolo Sys Mech). Effective for sometime but then it starts going downhill..... it would probably be solved soon when I get a new rig............
 
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