Windows XP Service Pack 3

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[LeoniAquila]

This is why I wait at least months before M$ themselves release a SP.

I know, you were never a true gambler although you do some experiments.

LA

[grey_ash]

Really, I have no idea what to do. Perhaps you wish to uninstall SP3. You can always have a fully patched SP2, at least until they force you to have SP3 in order to get the latest updates.

LA

Yup, I'm going to take off SP3 and see what it looks like then. I'll give M$ a while to fix any undiscovered bugs, then get SP3. 
 Wondering, this couldn't be a security feature aka "Hide protected operating system files"?

[Soyabeaner]

Mine has always been enabled, so why not try it?

[LeoniAquila]

[ at ]LeonAQUILA Only the ie7 folder, DRVSTORE, and the dllcache folder have this problem, though the names of the folders and the files inside them come up if i highlight them. Hovering the mouse over a file also brings up its details.

BTW where is drvstore located? I don't seem to have it. Also, I don't have IE7. Besides, I've deleted all files in dllcache... all this means that I may have encountered the same bug as you but there is no way to verify it.

LA

[Soyabeaner]

BTW where is drvstore located? I don't seem to have it.

If you would keep it off the key..

[grey_ash]

BTW where is drvstore located? I don't seem to have it. Also, I don't have IE7. Besides, I've deleted all files in dllcache... all this means that I may have encountered the same bug as you but there is no way to verify it.

LA

I found drvstore here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRVSTORE, dllcache here C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache ie7 here C:\WINDOWS\ie7.  I just removed SP3 and  I still have the same situation, folder and file names not showing in the above. Before unticking "Hide..." i got to dllcache by entering %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dllcache in Start>Run. See the screenshots. The highlighting was the only way to see the folder names.      
  This is wierd! I even ran two AV scans with Avira and nothing showed up! I'll google to see if anybody else has this  problem, and check microsoft help and support.

[LirvA]

Im not sure where I read it, but somewhere I read that with Vista you cant use DVDDecrypter, DVDShrink, and some other similar programs because MS did something to prevent it. Anyone know anything about this?

I am curious if they will do this with XP SP3

[draceena]

I have Windows XP SP2 Home. After a recient bad install of Zone Alarm that mucked up my registry so badly the only solution was total reinstall, I decided to give the SP3 a try. Since it's still not on the Win update list, I manually downloaded it and set to work on the reinstall of Windows.

The SP3 installed fairly quickly and easily (surprising for Microsoft) and one reboot later SP3 was on my machine. So far, everythings worked just as before with SP2. If there are supposed to be tweaks in there for system performance, I'm not noticing it thus far but am pleasantly surprised that I've not had any problems yet either.

The biggest bonus for SP3 is that it has all the windows updates in it that I would normally have to go to the Update Site to get after SP2 install so this saved me quite a bit of downloading/installing/rebooting time that I would have had otherwise.

Overall I'll give XP SP3 a tenative thumbs up.

[giraffe]

Got it from Softpedia this afternoon (about 560MB IIRC), put the ISO on to a CD and ran it.

Nothing obvious; most of the basic files have incremented a bit; some apps. start a bit faster; can't yet tell about boot as the Prefetch folder had only new entries (obviously wiped, as all the entries were from the time of the update).

Few things CFP asked about, as they'd changed.

Was it worth it? Don't really know.

[Soyabeaner]

Thread fusion complete.

[Ragwing]

Only bad thing (so far): IT TURNS WINDOWS FILE PROTECTION BACK ON AND ADDS SOME NEW SERVICES!
Now I got stuff like WMP back, and I actually completely removed it (cleaned registry with RegSeeker...).
I feel depressed and angry...

Cheers,
Ragwing

[Soyabeaner]

heheheheehhe was IE also back?

At this rate I might as well wait until SP3 is mandatory

[Ragwing]

heheheheehhe was IE also back?

I have IE, since I don't want to mess with deleting it.
Automatic Updates and BITS are also back, and yes, I deleted them too before
Don't know yet if I should keep them or wipe them out of my computer...

Cheers,
Ragwing

[Soyabeaner]

Unless you want to be like LA, there's nothing wrong with keeping them.

[Ragwing]

Unless you want to be like LA, there's nothing wrong with keeping them.

Okay. I've made my decision. I've set them to disabled (they already were of course) and disabled them to run on my hardware profile (and I only have one).
So even if Microsoft will set them to automatic, they'll be unable to run

Cheers,
Ragwing

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