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Windows Forum / Windows XP / General Topics 1 / May 2008SP3 installed via Windows Update disabled all apps
This is a post to inform of my experience. The SP3 installed via Windows Update killed all my application softwares. I attempted to repair by repair install of WXP with SP3 slipstreamed but the problem was not cured. I restored the WXP from its backup and installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, then no such problem happened. Installed SP3 from WU, no problems like the ones you experienced . All programs working as they were with SP2. Did not even disable AV or did a backup. Can't understand why so many are having problems. Did the same installation on a laptop Sony VAIO PCG-K33. All I had to there was unplug, plug power supply and USB connection. > This is a post to inform of my experience. > The SP3 installed via Windows Update killed all my application softwares. > I attempted to repair by repair install of WXP with SP3 slipstreamed but > the problem was not cured. I restored the WXP from its backup and > installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, then no such > problem happened. > Installed SP3 from WU, no problems like the ones you experienced . All > programs working as they were with SP2. Did not even disable AV or did a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, then no such >> problem happened. Well, a very significantly high percentage of WinXP SP2 users are having problems. Your statement that YOU did not have problems should be accompanied with an analysis of why YOU didn't have a problem, but millions of other have had problems. Q >> Installed SP3 from WU, no problems like the ones you experienced . All >> programs working as they were with SP2. Did not even disable AV or did a [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Q RTFM >http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/cc164204.aspx< >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947311/en-us< I'll tack onto this post with my experience. I went to the Windows Update site, sat through the "checking your computer" message for a few minutes. Got a message about needing to update to SP3. I said OK and the files were downloaded to my computer. The update took place........over a half hour or so all told. Absolutely nothing has gone wrong with my computer. What did I do incorrectly? Gord >This is a post to inform of my experience. >The SP3 installed via Windows Update killed all my application >softwares. I attempted to repair by repair install of WXP with SP3 >slipstreamed but the problem was not cured. I restored the WXP from its >backup and installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, >then no such problem happened. You shouldn't have maintained your computer so well! :) > I'll tack onto this post with my experience. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>backup and installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, >>then no such problem happened. > I'll tack onto this post with my experience. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Gord Same here, Gord. Only strange hiccup was that mp3 files are now associated with WMP rather than WinAmp -- easy enough to fix. Bill Was the download interrupted or the install interrupted that you know of? > This is a post to inform of my experience. > The SP3 installed via Windows Update killed all my application > softwares. I attempted to repair by repair install of WXP with SP3 > slipstreamed but the problem was not cured. I restored the WXP from its > backup and installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, > then no such problem happened. In my case everything went smoothly. download stated time as 25 minutes. Right on. No hiccups. What I did right I have no idea, except to download updates as they became available. > Was the download interrupted or the install interrupted that you know of? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> installed the SP3 from a downloaded standalone SP3 installer, then no >> such problem happened. |
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