I dredged these posts up from last December:
For whatever reason, my Windows Update utility finally got around to nagging me about installing SP3.
I'm a good little computer geek, and I know all about downloads & installs & backups and all the "gotchas". If there was a major problem with SP3 then Kim Komando would probably have delivered a breathless update on it by now in my daily e-mails. However being good at computer geeking it is completely different from wanting to do it, and I prefer to do as little of this as possible with as little disruption as possible. And when I do it, I'm gonna have to do it to a Compaq Presario desktop and two Dell Inspiron laptops.
So... anyone notice any problems surfacing with SP3?
How long did the patch take from the moment you clicked the "Install" button? I ask this because my hard drive started thrashing enthusiastically to establish driver lists and Restore points and other "ruh-roh" precautions that didn't exactly instill me with confidence in the confidence of the SP3 programming team.
As a sidebar, I'm going to install Firefox 3 on one of the laptops and start playing with it. (Spouse has finally retired from the Navy Reserve and its [-]Borg Collective[/-] mandatory OS/software standards, so now I have the incentive to play around a little.) I'll probably get around to FF3 after installing the SP3 patch. If I'm happy with FF3 (and by "happy" I mean "spouse & kid can adapt to it without a lot of my tech support") then I'll do it to the rest of our machines. Any speed bumps on FF3 that I should be watching for, particularly with SP3?
I've turned the Mac Mini over to our kid, who just smirks at me when I ask these questions...
BTW Reference Vista versus XP. I actually have no way to compare Vista to XP however it has been a week since I downloaded (344 MB) and installed Windows XP SP3 RC1 and I am happy to say it runs just like prior to SP3 RC1. I have XP Pro and I am also running Firefox, Thunderbird, Office 2002 Pro, and the usual FREE Anti-whatever (Avast, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot S&D and Adaware). BTW I downloaded it from MajorGeeks.com. I did not intend to hi-jack the thread.
SP3 does allegedly contain some performance improvements, and actually darn good ones. Supposed to make XP up to 30% faster than vista in some benchmarks.
For whatever reason, my Windows Update utility finally got around to nagging me about installing SP3.
I'm a good little computer geek, and I know all about downloads & installs & backups and all the "gotchas". If there was a major problem with SP3 then Kim Komando would probably have delivered a breathless update on it by now in my daily e-mails. However being good at computer geeking it is completely different from wanting to do it, and I prefer to do as little of this as possible with as little disruption as possible. And when I do it, I'm gonna have to do it to a Compaq Presario desktop and two Dell Inspiron laptops.
So... anyone notice any problems surfacing with SP3?
How long did the patch take from the moment you clicked the "Install" button? I ask this because my hard drive started thrashing enthusiastically to establish driver lists and Restore points and other "ruh-roh" precautions that didn't exactly instill me with confidence in the confidence of the SP3 programming team.
As a sidebar, I'm going to install Firefox 3 on one of the laptops and start playing with it. (Spouse has finally retired from the Navy Reserve and its [-]Borg Collective[/-] mandatory OS/software standards, so now I have the incentive to play around a little.) I'll probably get around to FF3 after installing the SP3 patch. If I'm happy with FF3 (and by "happy" I mean "spouse & kid can adapt to it without a lot of my tech support") then I'll do it to the rest of our machines. Any speed bumps on FF3 that I should be watching for, particularly with SP3?
I've turned the Mac Mini over to our kid, who just smirks at me when I ask these questions...