Has anyone had any trouble with Xp service pack 3? It comes up as an update, but have not installed yet , waiting to see if any bugs are found first. Thanks.
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There is a huge older thread down there somewhere. Basically there was an issue where HP installed some wrong image on OEM PCs with AMD processors and that caused the big issue with Sp3 updates. I am not 110% sure how that turned out; BUT on all my PCs it took just fine.
When my daughter installed it, she says that it slowed her computer down. I'll go and defrag for her. Hopefully that will help. Didn't affect my computer when I downloaded it, but she has a terribly slow dial-up provider. Perhaps that had something to do with her problem.
I am having a pair of related problems since both my work and home machines were updated.
First, office applications are not closing properly. If you close them, they keep on running in the background. If you kill the background tasks, they will come back up later as not having been closed properly and will attempt to recover the in box and any saved documents. This is Office 2003 SP3.
Second, there is a serious memory leak if ANY office app is left open. It will slowly build up to the point where a gig plus is being allocated, although no app will claim it. You must close all office apps and kill any background processes, and then the memory will start slowly recovering.
I have no control over the work computer, but am seriously considering re-imaging the home one back to XP SP2 and Office SP2. I put in a request for 4 GB memory on the work machine to at least delay the problem.
First, office applications are not closing properly. If you close them, they keep on running in the background. If you kill the background tasks, they will come back up later as not having been closed properly and will attempt to recover the in box and any saved documents. This is Office 2003 SP3.
Second, there is a serious memory leak if ANY office app is left open. It will slowly build up to the point where a gig plus is being allocated, although no app will claim it. You must close all office apps and kill any background processes, and then the memory will start slowly recovering.
I have no control over the work computer, but am seriously considering re-imaging the home one back to XP SP2 and Office SP2. I put in a request for 4 GB memory on the work machine to at least delay the problem.
Something is definitely wrong with both machines. I would re-image both and load sp3 before reloading any apps.
Are they AMDs and what AV apps are you using?
Oh, and are they HPs?
As said above me if this AMD happens to be an HP OEM (or variant of HP) then HP had provided an incorrect image of Windows and they should provided a fix.
Both are Intel P4s 3.2 GHz.
Work machine is a Dell GX620. I have no admin rights to this one.
Home machine is an HP laptop. I did do the iTunes trick mentioned earlier with no effect. I hate to re-image because I no longer have access to the developer's studio discs. Had an MSDN Universal, but it has since expired. Also had a standalone dev studio set, but that all got left behind in Colorado when we closed the business. I need to dig deeper, as something funky is happening on startup. There is a rogue app bringing up an empty dialog. Looked into the windows startup entries in the registry and didn't see anything unexpected there.
The Dell should have upgraded fine, that's what I use at work. Something on there must have stopped sp3 from overwriting a file and now you have a blown up app.
Yeah, I've been stuck in a place where I really needed to re-image but didn't have the one disk I needed.
HPs are the biggest problem for SP3 right now. Have to do more reading on the fixes for HP owners.
Yeah, I've been stuck in a place where I really needed to re-image but didn't have the one disk I needed.
HPs are the biggest problem for SP3 right now. Have to do more reading on the fixes for HP owners.
I built my own machine. It is the first 64 bit version but I am running the 32 bit windows.
I have a HP with AMD processor...no idea if AMD made it but I'm not taking any chances.
I don't really see what SP3 has to offer as it's clearly nowhere near what SP2 was. I'll hold off for now.
I don't really see what SP3 has to offer as it's clearly nowhere near what SP2 was. I'll hold off for now.
