Windows XP SP3

[nova]

Well, XP Service Pack 3 has been released,... I've updated 3 rigs so far. No problems yet. Is everyone else doing OK?

[bobgpsr]

So far OK for me on my one XP rig.

[mdrake]

Put it on two machines at work and so far so good.
Did find one incompatibility though. If a machine is backed up with file transfer wizard sp2 it will not transfer to an sp3 machine. Not a huge issue as I back up manually most of th time but something to look out for.

Matt

[nova]

Think I'll get it on the other two this weekend,... I have not seen any issues with my stuff,.... almost a first for me and MS

[Mike P.]

Have it on a laptop for the last 2 days. No problems so far.

[epereira]

I had to use Norton Ghost to restore my computer. I installed XP Service Pack 3 and it caused the computer to enlessly reboot (without loading Windows). Others have also reported the same issue on various forums. I guess I'll wait for a while before "upgrading".

[Bob_99]

I've been using it since it has been released and no problems at all.

Bob

[nova]

Finally got it on my K6-2/500, five of six are running it just fine

[sparky77]

I installed sp3 on a new pc before installing msn live messenger, which I had to find a work around because the popup blocking wouldn't allow the installer to start, otherwise, no problems so far.

[tonyvdb]

Installed it on two PC's this weekend and had no issues with the update. One was a Gateway laptop and the other was a Dell tower. All seems fine so far.

[buggers]

On some computers it may cause the computer to install other MS products without giving you any of the usual options such as what components do you want.

[240V]

Loaded SP3 on 3 machines and it KILLED one of them. Not immediately but after a few random reboots. Couldn't even get a bios beep out of it but luckily I found the "flash drive /PS2 K&M" trick to get it to boot and uninstalled SP3. Everything fine now.

[avaserfi]

SP3 works fine on my laptop, but for some reason stops my girls laptop from being able to access any sort of windows update (a common enough problem). I looked over the web and tried every available fix from the MS offered one to random users fixes and nothing so I just restored her computer back to sp2 and am waiting.

[240V]

On the machine that died I got a message from MS saying that due to significant hardware changes I needed to reactivate. I hadn't changed anything! It croaked shortly after activation.