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About LinkBacksRead more.Following its release six years ago, Microsoft's Windows XP is still going strong. Users of the ever popular operating system are now able to download a release candidate of Service Pack 3 via Microsoft's Download Centre.
Read more.Following its release six years ago, Microsoft's Windows XP is still going strong. Users of the ever popular operating system are now able to download a release candidate of Service Pack 3 via Microsoft's Download Centre.
Microsoft's aiming to bring XP to the same level of performance and reliability as Vista with this service pack... oh dear!
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Yeah I think I'll wait until I hear some feedback about this SP first, before I go ahead and download it. Is it time limited as well this one?
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Michael
Quite. I wouldn't be surprised if the 'enhanced' security and reliability suddenly took 10-20% off the performance.Originally Posted by Steve
i got this weeks agothought id give it a spin since i was reformatting for a new gfx card anyway..
it has issues, namely with bouts of "hdd stops crunching and it just sits there for 5 seconds" and also had real trouble getting it to work with integrated sound..
back to sp2 for the moment
edit: actually only partly back to sp2.. its still on the laptop, that works ok. no better and no worse than sp2 in that situation
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Im, going too install this now. if all goes wrong i'll just roll back too sp2
What if it can't roll back properly
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May have to try this on a test machine, don't fancy trying the main machine until I've heard a bit more feedback on it! hah.
What if it can't roll back properlyseems fine to me only problems, i've had so far is ATI CCC not working seems a bit sharper
will give it a try when its properly released. i like XP, it works just great. no need to upgrade to vista just yet. the only time i've ever felt a strong need to upgrade OS is when i was running windows ME....what a disaster
NB: If you patched your kernel to use a custom startup screen, you WILL need to revert to the original to install SP3 RC1. Also, if you've patched your uxtheme.dll, this will no longer work.
virtualization ftw!What if it can't roll back properly
well that is really really really gay...
Its not like someone won't patch it in a few days anyway
True, and there's nothing stopping you from re-patching the kernel afterward. That said, uxtheme so far has resisted re-patching.
no it hasnt - im running sp3 and iv patched the uxtheme.dll file.... do you want me to upload the tools to do it with?
nichomach (19-12-2007)
yes pleaseunless we aren't allowed.
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