Comments on: Windows XP SP3 More Harm Then Help

By: chad

chad — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:13 +0000

@CHOWDER

Etch-a-Sketch XP is still better than Vista ;)

By: Chowder

Chowder — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:40:10 +0000

abacus and a Etch-a-Sketch upgrades for everyone…

By: dov

dov — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:24:31 +0000

edit2:

it’s okay now, I managed to repair it..
btw, it was related to the new install and not sp3..
so sp3 also works fine with xp pro..

By: dov

dov — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:09:34 +0000

lol.. edit:

I just fresh installed hungarian oem xp pro, then sp3..
all my DVD drives are gone, XP says can’t start them.. :D

By: Emory

Emory — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:47:36 +0000

i <3 ubuntu

By: dov

dov — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:22:53 +0000

I have hungarian oem xp home, and I have no trouble after installing SP3 so far..

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:47:11 +0000

Maybe this is Microsoft’s way of getting users to change to Vista!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:33:25 +0000

Yeah, I reformatted two days ago and reinstalled Windows. I updated via Windows Update for SP3 and after the reboot, I never saw my desktop again. System restore never worked, so I was forced to reformat once again. I’m currently using SP2.

My laptop on the other hand, is using OpenSUSE 10.3, Vista is on the other partition, but I never booted into it haha.

By: Per-Erik Broz

Per-Erik Broz — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:17:09 +0000

Haha Chad, wish I could! ;) I myself is only running Linux and OSX here at home. But my workplace is still dominated by Windows. Forgot to mention that the trouble we have had is only verified on Norwegian Windows XP.

The error is that Windows Installer (I guess 3.1 which is in SP3) can’t find a function in a dll file. Could probably be fixed by fetching the file from a working system… not tried.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:52:44 +0000

@PER-ERIC BROZ

Add / Remove Programs > Add / Remove Windows (OS)

try that one.