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I know some people still use sp1.
Thanx!
When sp3 came out i did not bother updating it onto the home pc. What I want to know is is it ok to carry on using sp2???? I mean the the windows update still updates.
I know some people still use sp1.
Thanx!
Last edited by AledJ; 22-11-2008 at 02:30 PM.
the way i look at it is if microsoft are releasing sp3 and updating sp3 then there are holes to be fixed. I do have one machine that is running sp2 and it seems fine. i guess i dont have a definitive answer for you. but personnally i try and stay as upto date as possible.
what age is your pc?
Pirates ?Originally Posted by AledJ
I know you all folks and you all keep your AV solutions and firewalls up-to-date, so why does this ethos not carry over towards the operating system?
SP3 includes a LOT of hot fixes for vulnerabilities within the files that make up windows and as such it should be an essential upgrade when installing/updating.
The pc has a pentium 4 and running xp. Not sure how old it is as it was my dad's work pc, until he got a laptop. The reason i didn't update when it came out was due to the problems i had with my pc. On my own pc i updated to sp3 but it caused the pc to really slow down, so i had to go back to sp2 and now it will freeze for 5 seconds maybe on getting into windows. But I found out that that may have had something to do with my amd processor and the update.
So when the updates came for the home pc which is on a pentium 4 i didn't want the same to happen. When i saw the update i cancelled it. So bit worried of now dl sp3 and something going wrong.
I'm running SP3 on my machine (after having re-installed the OS for a hardware upgrade) and haven't had any issues with it. SP3 looks more like a bundle of updates grouped together rather than any significant OS changes like SP2 was.
I too noticed a significant performance hit in terms of boot up speed after installing SP3 on my old machine, not quite sure what in particular caused it.
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Well just updated my laptop which i have not used for a while. But not sure if i should update the home pc as the pc is not fast (i guess you can call it normal speed).
Don't want update and find its slower than before.
Is Microsift still giving updates for sp2? Because as I said the windows updates still happen.
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