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02-24-2003, 06:38 PM
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Service Pack 3
Just installed Service pack 3..wondering if it was a wise choice? I heard that service packs are suppose to slow down your system?
Seems to be an increase in navigational speed 
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02-24-2003, 06:42 PM
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Where did you here that it slows your system down?
All SP's do is fix bugs and securty holes (are supposed to, anyway  ).
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02-24-2003, 06:45 PM
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I was talking to my cousin about Service Pack 3, and from what he said that he heard that service packs have the tendency to slow down PC's. I dont know where he heard that from, but I heard it from him.
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02-24-2003, 06:54 PM
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Pardon my ignorance, but SP3 for what??
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02-24-2003, 07:07 PM
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Microsoft Windows 2000. The Service Pack 3 that you get when you run Windows Update. Not Service Pack for Internet Explorer or anything like that, just straight for the OS.
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02-24-2003, 07:18 PM
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Ok thanks...I was thinking XP and was a little shocked that they had gotten beyond SP1.
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02-24-2003, 07:21 PM
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Last time I looked, MS had SP1a available for XP.
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02-24-2003, 07:25 PM
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I don't know guys..I guess SP3 kinda fixed the bug with ATA100 and 2K as I read on viaarena.com that said ATA100 will work better with atleast SP2 installed..so I installed SP3..and it seems like my hard drive performance navigation has improved by some bit.
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02-24-2003, 07:27 PM
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SP's are supposed to help
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02-24-2003, 08:55 PM
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Yes you should install service packs unless you have a particular reason no to.
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02-24-2003, 08:58 PM
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What was the problem a while back that some people were having when installing SP1 on XP?
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02-24-2003, 10:46 PM
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Disable the "Automatic Updates" service they decided we needed.
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02-24-2003, 11:17 PM
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ANytime you make a bunch of changes at once you run the risk of having some problems. There were a variety of problems reported with XP SP1. I installed it on a bunch of systems and it went smooth for me on all of them. I think they run a little better afterwards also.
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