Comments on: Why You Perhaps Shouldn’t Install Windows XP SP3 http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/do-not-install-windows-xp-sp3/ grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Marcelo http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/do-not-install-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-1378 Marcelo Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:13 +0000 http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-1378 I have problems with Windows XP SP3 in the Dell Optiplex 330 which I use in work. Windows does not startup! What can I do? I have problems with Windows XP SP3 in the Dell Optiplex 330 which I use in work. Windows does not startup! What can I do?

]]> By: Brian Haines http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/do-not-install-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-1377 Brian Haines Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:00:15 +0000 http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-1377 I have had success by using the Custom option on Windows Update for new computers. When you get to the option to install SP3 scroll down a little and click the button to view other updates. Do this more than once until all other updates are complete and then install SP3 and you will avoid the problem where SP3 breaks Windows Update. If you have already broken Windows Update then this batch file seems to restart the proper services to get it working again: http://www.mediafire.com/?0mbdodwsykn I hope that helps. I have had success by using the Custom option on Windows Update for new computers. When you get to the option to install SP3 scroll down a little and click the button to view other updates.

Do this more than once until all other updates are complete and then install SP3 and you will avoid the problem where SP3 breaks Windows Update.

If you have already broken Windows Update then this batch file seems to restart the proper services to get it working again:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0mbdodwsykn

I hope that helps.

]]> By: Do Not Install Windows XP SP3 http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/do-not-install-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-1344 Do Not Install Windows XP SP3 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:26:00 +0000 http://grumpyautomaton.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-1344 [...] designxpert wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIt’s not new news, most assuredly, but feedback for the XP SP3 patch have not been favorable. Yesterday I installed SP3 for the first time on a brand new computer from Dell, and Windows updates no longer worked. … [...] [...] designxpert wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIt’s not new news, most assuredly, but feedback for the XP SP3 patch have not been favorable. Yesterday I installed SP3 for the first time on a brand new computer from Dell, and Windows updates no longer worked. … [...]

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