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BURN IT DOWN POOKIE!!!
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Before you upgrade to XP SP3...
A warning to you guys, before you update to XP Service Pack 3, please, for the love of all things good, do a backup. I just tried to install it on my PC this evening (made sure drivers, software, and all relevant patches were applied) and it ****ed up my desktop AGAIN! XP did this to me when SP2 was released as well... Idiots at Microsoft manage to do it again... How can it be so hard to make sure that it works with PCs correctly? I ended up with an endless sequence of reboots that never completed. Couldn't get to the point of loading the desktop.  to Microsoft. Thankfully, I transferred all my data to my macbook before this went down. Now I have to spend all tomorrow evening applying stupid patches and other **** to get to the point of attempting this again... 
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05-07-2008, 02:01 AM
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you should always perform a backup regardless how stupid the task, especially when fooling around with drivers or service packs. 
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05-07-2008, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by CoriolisSTORM
Idiots at Microsoft manage to do it again... How can it be so hard to make sure that it works with PCs correctly?
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Hmm....it's amazing what you can get away with (at least for a while) when you're number one. Makes me mindful of the U.S. automakers. Wasn't GM once the largest selling auto maker in the world but didn't address quality issues until it was too late? Now they're number 2 behind Toyota. Don't be surprised if some day Microsoft isn't looking up at LINUX wondering where they went wrong.
BTW, I own 3 American made cars (2 Fords and a Jeep) and 2 WinXP computers. What does that say about me?
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05-07-2008, 07:19 PM
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FWIW - if you're a home user there is no need to install XP3. you have all of the rollups from windows update, and the only other additions are better integration with SCCM 07 and NAC from Server 08
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05-07-2008, 07:27 PM
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Your motherboard bios is out of date. I just went through this issue where I work. Ran a BIOS update and updated the PC's out of the test lab and everything was fine.
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05-08-2008, 04:46 AM
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Your motherboard bios is out of date. I just went through this issue where I work. Ran a BIOS update and updated the PC's out of the test lab and everything was fine.
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BIOS and everything else are all the latest available from HP. Havent fixed it yet as I was setting up a friend's laptop yesterday.
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Its like a (silly censor)roach, the Wrangler - you can't kill it And now there's a four door. Joy.
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05-08-2008, 08:33 AM
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I upgraded to SP3 on two computers without any problems
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05-08-2008, 08:48 AM
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I upgraded to SP3 on two computers without any problems
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x2 cept make that 4.
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05-08-2008, 10:51 AM
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Something to do with this POS HP. It screwed me with SP2 as well.
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05-08-2008, 11:44 AM
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get a mac....
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05-08-2008, 02:42 PM
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RTFT 
My laptop is a Macbook but I keep the outdated desktop around just in case. I don't really need to anymore since I got '98 running in a virtual machine on my Mac but ya never know.
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05-08-2008, 03:37 PM
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also beware. sp3 will disable remote desktop, we did it to a pc here at work and went to remote into a server and said " please buy full version".........so we undid it.
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05-08-2008, 03:45 PM
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BURN IT DOWN POOKIE!!!
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also beware. sp3 will disable remote desktop, we did it to a pc here at work and went to remote into a server and said " please buy full version".........so we undid it.
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That'll suck as I work at a place that uses remote desktop to remote into the PCs to monitor equipment... Hope they realize that before pushing out the update!
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05-08-2008, 04:00 PM
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^ I've looked and I see nothing that says it removes RDP Client, in fact SP3 has a newer version.
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