Windows XP Service Pack 3

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[Vettetech]

SP3 installed on 4 machines with no problems for me. Sorry some of you are having problems. I waited till it was official and did it through Windows Update.

[giraffe]

SP3 installed on 4 machines with no problems for me. Sorry some of you are having problems. I waited till it was official and did it through Windows Update.

Windows Update won't talk to my PC; wouldn't trust it anyway.

[Vettetech]

How does Windows Update not work. Do you have services shot off? Nothing wrong with Windows Update site. Perfectly safe.

[kail]

My Windows Update is broken as well.. but, I did that (I broke BITS).

[Ragwing]

kail, did you do it on purpose, or was it an accident?
Do you mind to tell us the story?

[giraffe]

How does Windows Update not work. Do you have services shot off? Nothing wrong with Windows Update site. Perfectly safe.

Service disabled. No updates from SP2 when it came out until SP3. Also the site disowns me.

[kail]

kail, did you do it on purpose, or was it an accident?
Do you mind to tell us the story?

Of course not.. It was on purpose. I broke BITS (which WU needs) when its vulnerability first came to light. But, I'd already disabled WU many years before that, after I was once charged over 250 USD for WUs automatic download of something really dumb (MRT maybe) when I left my laptop plugged into a hotel rooms phone by accident.

[Vettetech]

How do you all have broken Windows Update sites? I have Windows Update Service enabled but I dont have it install the updates automaticlly. I installed SP3 on both my pc's through Windows update with no problems. I also did 3 of my work pc's with no problems.

[Josh123]

Off course, We can ALL ***TRUST*** Microsoft 



Josh

[LirvA]

This is interesting regarding Windows Genuine Advantage on wikipedia

"False positive rate

The WGA program can produce false positives (incorrectly identifying a genuine copy of Windows as "not genuine"). This can happen for any number of reasons. Microsoft has established a forum to help users encountering problems.[24] Recently, a "Not Sure" section was added to the program, in case of an incorrect reading.

According to an editorial on the arstechnica.com technology website, WGA reported around 22% of 500 million Windows computers as failing the test; of these less than 0.5% were due to pirate software, with the balance (over 20%, or 90% of all positives) related to non piracy issues. Microsoft "refused to comment on the rate of pure false positives" beyond saying it was "under 1%" (or as stated, at most around 5 million users affected)"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage



Maybe some of the posters suffer from this?

[Ragwing]

That's very interesting.

"False positive rate

The WGA program can produce false positives (incorrectly identifying a genuine copy of Windows as "not genuine").

It can also incorrectly idenfity a not genuine copy as a genuine

[Dennis2]

Off course, We can ALL ***TRUST*** Microsoft 



Josh

Yes we could
Or NO access unless absolute neccessary.
Dennis

[Matty_R]

Hmmmm,

SP3,well Microsoft can place it right where the sun dont shine,its made a right mess of my system which has required me to do a fresh install of XP and as this is the first time ive had to do a re format etc,im now flapping around like a fish out of water wondering why everything now looks horrid.Settings settings and more settings.
 

Any tips,anyone

Regards,Matty

[Soyabeaner]

Yes, here's a start.  Feel free to comment there.  Did SP3 kill Safe Mode, Matty?

[Matty_R]

Killed eveything,just started getting it trying to boot in any mode,failing then trying again,the only way i could stop it was to go into BIOS and boot from cd.
Ive just noticed a real weird one,dont know if anyone has come accross this or knows the answer but me keyboard is all in a mess.Theres a [ at ] when you do shift/2 and vise versa,theres about five keys all jumbled up but its just a standard keyboard and it says its working ok.Just gonna try another.....[ at ]~| nope still the same 
Its weird its just the shift and 2/3 that are mixed up with the shift ;/',oh no tell a lie the top left key and the hash key are mixed up as well,now i cant do no hash

Matty

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