Comments on: Windows XP Service Pack 3 May Cause More Issues Than It Fixes

By: Eric A.

Eric A. — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:34:19 +0000

after reading the above,

today after a day of chemspraying the bay area of california

and seeing the 911 truth about what really happened

and look at the sky and see JETS SPRAYING POISON

cloverleaf and raindance. evergreen aviation out of oregon is doing it

and then recall the moon landing being a hoax

a total lie. cant make it, fake it is what the president told nasa

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and then read some more posts about sp3 and realize that

GATES WAS BEHIND THAT SCAM AND FRAUD

to buy new computer or use his paid help, to rid of the problem he created on purpose

to now hear of FRAUD IN THE MORTGAGE

as it was sold to many others the note to the house.

who owns the house?

with MERS a company with no employees controlling 60 % of the contracts of home loans

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it appears nothing i have been told is the truth at all

ITS FINE MESSAGE BOARDS LIKE THIS THAT YOU LEARN WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON

sp3 is SHIT

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and it was planned

wake up america!!!!

look up at the skies someday

WHAT ARE THOSE LONG STRAIGHT LONG LAST LINES that follow high flying jets

the ones that last all day and spread out making the sky overcast white?

Clouds?

steam from the exhaust?

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try barium and aluminum

yeap

why?

to make you stupid and compliant

FOR MORE BILLS

literally

-eric-

truth seekers, keep us posted!!!!!

By: MicrosoftHater

MicrosoftHater — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:30:13 +0000

SP3 totally ruined our HP laptop. It can only tell us there is "no operating system found" and continuously runs a cycle of start up to shut down, and best of all, it now makes clicking noises. So, thank you Microsoft for this critical trojan-horse silver bullet to our head. I imagine it will be a long time before our PC ever works, let alone works as it did before your deathblow. I will be on a rampage to make you pay for this destruction and to reimburse us for our hardships, which you and you alone have brought upon us. I hate Microsoft with a passion. I will never trust you or your products again. It's time for a MAC!

By: Chad A. Johnson

Chad A. Johnson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:06:00 +0000

If the operating system isn't stable enough to remove the service pack from the add/remove programs, it may need professional help. A local computer repair shop is probably your best solution.

Another option is to consider upgrading to Windows 7. If your computer is compatible, it will get you the latest functionality for about the same price as a repair of XP.

By: Patric

Patric — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:28:08 +0000

XP Service Pack3 has completely messed up my computer. I read some time ago not to instal it put it did it automatically. TOTAL DISASTER. Computer keeps shutting down after a slow labourious boot up. How can I safely remove it???

By: Wollu

Wollu — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:43:07 +0000

Hi Chad,

Thanks for posting this. I wouldn't install SP3 since I see no reason to do so. SP2 works perfectly fine and I've got too many critical applications on my PC to put it at risk for the sake of MS interests Its quite strange to deliver such an update for a phase out product anyway. I've switched off my Windows Update Service now

Cheers,

Wolfgang

By: Neil Billlany

Neil Billlany — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:36:28 +0000

Update to service pack three via Microsoft update…Wow what a lot of problems, lost all other user loggings and loads of other problems…cutting my losses and off to by an Apple Mac I never want to deal with Microsoft again!!!

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:00:07 +0000

Brand new machine, installed XP SP2 – fully set up and all working OK, thought I'd give SP3 a try – I have updates turned off as they have slowed my machine in the past. Worst thing I could have done – never again!

The wireless networking was working until the SP3 update, then it would not connect at all. I am now in the middle of a total reinstall which will take me two days – thanks Microsoft!

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:17:13 +0000

I am 0 for 2 with the windows sp3.

Both computers locked up on me and I needed to defrag the drives. Then the install worked. I also have noticed that on both systems I can no longer read one of the DVD drives. If there are no driver updates for SP3 I will go back to SP2.

By: Art

Art — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:42:21 +0000

I also tried a search from a new browser called Firefox. Didn't give me any search results either, so, something in the pewter is messing up both browsers. I don't think reformatting is a good idea, way too much stuff will get lost. There has GOT to be one simple thing doing this……

By: Joe Shadley

Joe Shadley — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:47:36 +0000

I was under the impression that having the windows automatic updates turned on was supposed to protect my computer. I was wrong. It automatically installed the SP3 and I had many of the issues listed in the above comments. Blank pages while trying to view my email, no youtube, no image search, many websites that I visit daily were just inoperable. I eventually had to take it in and shell out $60, just to get the SP3 removed. I wouldnt recommend installing it.

I had to turn off my automatic updates, and it's STILL trying to sneak in there. Microsoft really needs to do something about this mess.

By: Chad A. Johnson

Chad A. Johnson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:20:43 +0000

Art,

That is an awful computer bug to have. Google search results make up a substantial portion of my web surfing.

A reformat may be your best route to fixing the problem. You could then get XP SP3 on before other programs make registry changes. Make sure you update your BIOS and hardware drivers along the way.

Chad

By: Art

Art — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:48 +0000

Well, I followed all of the directions, trusted the Microsoft brand, and did the upgrade to SP3, per all of the instructions, and voila! I get search results of a blank white page with the word "Done" in the lower left hand side. I got through the Microsoft website to a gentleman named "Tiger Wu" who is diligently working with me via the email mode, to continue to troubleshoot this. After a reset of some parameters via the Internet Options Advanced tab, I now get a statement: "unable to display results" or "website not found" or "check connectivity"…. et cetera. I get these results regardless of the search engine that I use (Google, Lycos, Explorer, or from the address bar..) . It seems that this has been an issue for quite some time, and yes, Microsoft should have performed more tests to route this problem out, especially since it is becoming more apparent that more people are discovering this very problem also. Well, wish me luck, and for what it is worth, one should really perform an intensive introspection prior to updating IE with SP 3. Some questions that one might ask: 1) Am I willing to give up many DAYS at my computer to overcome the problems that I may encounter? 2)Do I have enough finances to purchase another computer? 3) Why would Microsoft be so negligent to allow something like this to go on for so long without establishing a fix? 4) Can I beat up the Microsoft SP3 upgrade project manager, and if not, has he been fired?

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:15:22 +0000

This service pack is a Microsoft sanctioned virus!

Had to do a system recovery and came within a hair of losing all my data.

I cannot wait until Google's operating system is released so that we are finally free from using this garbage.

By: Stewart Ehrreich

Stewart Ehrreich — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:01:09 +0000

Service Pack 3 destroyed my compuyer's ability to access my LAN and knocked out acxess to the internet. The "fix" was to backup critical files and format the hard drive followed by a new clean install of WIN-XP. Imagine the time it took to get the hard drive back to its original configuration! I had a backup but not a mirror-image one that I recommend to the brave souls still wanting to "upgrade"

I absolutely recommend that users think hard before installing the update. My computer guru says it's an individual thing with some computers hit hard, others are unaffected.

I lost two full days of work (much more expensive than a new computer) and could not believe that microsoft could make such a Trojan Horse a Critical Update.without more field testing on a variety of computers and configuratios.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:00:15 +0000

I initially had alot of the same issues appear on my laptop and ended up uninstalling sp3 months ago. BUT about 2 months ago I got brave and annoyed at the reminders to download it. What worked for me was after running all maintenace programs spybot,mcafee,malwarebyte's, defraged and error checked and then restarted the pc. Closed every program in the taskbar that could be and ran the download. Happy to say no issues ever popped up since. The download took quite awhile almost as if it hung up but it didn't.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:09:02 +0000

After installing SP3 for XP, my pc stopped playing all videos other than those few which operate at the website itself (which, for example, doesn't include places like You Tube).

That means it will no longer allow most types of video or apparently any type of 'Active X' function to occur as well. This means there are a number of websites where much or most of the material will not display, often at large companies which have very active homepages. Some website's homepages are, it seems, so active that SP3 shuts down everything, so they display as totally blank pages except for the background color, making interaction impossible.

The only thing which still works which "displays movement similar to a video" are thise items which use Java, such as moving or looping radar images at the National Weather Service.

Collectively they appear like an overboard effort at maximum security. Other than restoring a backup, which I'd really rather avoid, does anyone know how to fix this range of issues? Thank you.

By: Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:22:56 +0000

Thank Goodness I didnt install this latest Turkey Screwup S.P.3 I have learned the hard way in the past not to let my computer automatically download and install crap updates. Im not updating this one because I need to be able to use my computer!

By: Erin Steinberg

Erin Steinberg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:01:29 +0000

I have had more than issues with the stupid update. There was no notice that it would cause major problems with AMD chips. Apparently the download triggered an unknown disc issue and we had to eventually do a complete system recovery and some of my files are still lost in here. I want to know what I can do to just NOT install it since it keeps popping up in my tray now that it NEEEEEEEDS to be installed. Please help.

By: Chuck Bianchi

Chuck Bianchi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:00:11 +0000

I chance downloaded this when it first came out and ran into nothing but problems. Finally having gotten tired of seeing it in windows update everytime something was ready to download I closed every program I could. I mean everything in the taskbar including disabling mcAfee, and am happy to say no problems reported. Although as stated above there are no especially nice upgrades in the download except a search bar that appeared in the taskbar that I quickly disabled after the restart. This was NOT a quick upgrade while it seemed my pc had froze a number of times it just needed more time to get through what it was doing. Be patient and don't start it an hour beforing turning in for the night, pre breakfast might be better and I'm on a cable network..

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:46:26 +0000

I'm no computer whiz – farthest thing from it – I hobble along as best I can. I've spent 2 days trying to fix problems that have popped up since installing SP3. Mainly an error with the wireless networking. I couldn't figure it out 'till I reverted the hard drive on one computer and it worked fine and then updated the 2nd and it had the same issues – then updated the 2nd again and reverted once again to same issue. This is aggravating for someone (me) who is just not that computer litterate. I wish there was an easily found answer to this.