SP3 installed via Windows Update disabled all apps

[churin]

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.

 

[Sgt]

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.

 

[Gord Dibben]

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

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You shouldn't have maintained your computer so well!

 

[Quaoar]

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.

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

 

[Frank-FL]

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
RTFM
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/cc164204.aspx<
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947311/en-us<

 

[Guest]

Was the download interrupted or the install interrupted that you know of?

 

[Bill Sharpe]

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

Same here, Gord. Only strange hiccup was that mp3 files are now
associated with WMP rather than WinAmp -- easy enough to fix.

Bill

 

[Sgt]

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.