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J Tinsby
If you read my first posting that SP3 failed to install because I got
an " Access Denied" message you'll see that there is a KB 949377
article that addresses this issue.
I thought I'd be brave ( or stupid ) and run the registry mod that is
suggested in that KB article. This only took a few minutes and I went
about installing SP3 on my XP Pro Machine. While that was chugging
away I thought I'd put it on my wife's machine that she doesn't use at
all that runs XP Home.
That install went off without a hitch.................but it made the
machine so slow that it was unuseable, so yet another SP3 un-install
for me!
Now to my machine, it installed OK but I found the same thing the
machine was unacceptably slow especially on boot up and I had the fun
of watching the icons fill in one by one then the taskbar and then the
tooltray <sigh> just like my buddies machine acts mine did the same
thing afer a second try at an install.Plus in rendered my firewalls
inoperative on both machines........... So out it came.
The machine is back to normal now and it boots and runs like it did
before the dreaded SP3 install. I have now changed my auto updates to
warn me there are updates but don't d/l or install them. I don't ever
want to see SP3 again until it's "fixed" if such a thing is even
possible.
J T
an " Access Denied" message you'll see that there is a KB 949377
article that addresses this issue.
I thought I'd be brave ( or stupid ) and run the registry mod that is
suggested in that KB article. This only took a few minutes and I went
about installing SP3 on my XP Pro Machine. While that was chugging
away I thought I'd put it on my wife's machine that she doesn't use at
all that runs XP Home.
That install went off without a hitch.................but it made the
machine so slow that it was unuseable, so yet another SP3 un-install
for me!
Now to my machine, it installed OK but I found the same thing the
machine was unacceptably slow especially on boot up and I had the fun
of watching the icons fill in one by one then the taskbar and then the
tooltray <sigh> just like my buddies machine acts mine did the same
thing afer a second try at an install.Plus in rendered my firewalls
inoperative on both machines........... So out it came.
The machine is back to normal now and it boots and runs like it did
before the dreaded SP3 install. I have now changed my auto updates to
warn me there are updates but don't d/l or install them. I don't ever
want to see SP3 again until it's "fixed" if such a thing is even
possible.
J T