Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please check the Forum Guidelines at the top of the Newbie section

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Windows SP3  (Read 990 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Mr Skrunts

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Skruntie Land.
  • Posts: 25666
  • 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys,
    • 2003 CD 2.2 Auto
    • View Profile
Windows SP3
« on: 23 August 2008, 01:10:43 »
Just done a fresh windows install.

Activated the disk, tuned on the updates and then gone to the down load site.

Done the full SP3 upgrade.

Still on IE6, is IE7 not part of the SP3 upgrade.? :-/

Also just checked, still on Media Player 9.  Thought it was higher than that now. ? :-/
« Last Edit: 23 August 2008, 01:12:45 by skruntie »
Logged
Ask yourself :  " WHY do I believe in what I believe?"

Remember that my opinions expressed here are not representative of the opinions of other members on the OOF Forum.

dbug

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Northants
  • Posts: 14279
  • Dont knock Linux!
    • Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio
    • View Profile
    • Dbug IT Services
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #1 on: 23 August 2008, 01:12:15 »
No - you have to download seperately from MS site
Logged
1972 Ferrari Dino, 1967 Triumph TR4A, Mondeo 2.0TDCi Estate, Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio

Mr Skrunts

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Skruntie Land.
  • Posts: 25666
  • 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys,
    • 2003 CD 2.2 Auto
    • View Profile
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #2 on: 23 August 2008, 01:13:42 »
Quote
No - you have to download seperately from MS site

Didnt on mine, it poped up as an update.
Logged
Ask yourself :  " WHY do I believe in what I believe?"

Remember that my opinions expressed here are not representative of the opinions of other members on the OOF Forum.

Mr Skrunts

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Skruntie Land.
  • Posts: 25666
  • 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys,
    • 2003 CD 2.2 Auto
    • View Profile
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #3 on: 23 August 2008, 01:18:36 »
Quote
No - you have to download seperately from MS site

Cheers Dbug, have just dowloaded them both.  :y
Logged
Ask yourself :  " WHY do I believe in what I believe?"

Remember that my opinions expressed here are not representative of the opinions of other members on the OOF Forum.

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107021
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #4 on: 23 August 2008, 09:13:35 »
I rarely install service packs - a new service pack is a good excuse to rebuild, and I always rebuild with a slipstreamed version.

SP2 for XP in particular I wouldn't install, I treat that as a new OS, and its never wise to upgrade OS.
Logged
Grumpy old man

Mr Skrunts

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Skruntie Land.
  • Posts: 25666
  • 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys,
    • 2003 CD 2.2 Auto
    • View Profile
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #5 on: 23 August 2008, 12:52:30 »
Well I did the download for Media Player and IE7 upgrades.

Glad I saved them to disk rather than load them.

IE7 was installed last night but I didnt use it and went to bed.  Cam to use the computer this aftr noon and IE7 just kept crashing and giving errors.

I COULD'NT GET ON THE OOF.  :o :o

Thought well stuff it it, then realised I couldnt install Mozilla as I could not download it.  That will be the 1st think downloaded on future reinstall's.

IE7 reinstalled so lets see how long it lasts this time.  :-/
Logged
Ask yourself :  " WHY do I believe in what I believe?"

Remember that my opinions expressed here are not representative of the opinions of other members on the OOF Forum.

dbug

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Northants
  • Posts: 14279
  • Dont knock Linux!
    • Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio
    • View Profile
    • Dbug IT Services
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #6 on: 23 August 2008, 15:42:01 »
Quote
I rarely install service packs - a new service pack is a good excuse to rebuild, and I always rebuild with a slipstreamed version.

SP2 for XP in particular I wouldn't install, I treat that as a new OS, and its never wise to upgrade OS.

Good advice - many times upgrading with an MS service pack works ok - but if you are one of the unlucky ones you will probably find your system trashed.  Best to slipstream and reinstall.

Seen a number of customers when I had my Computer Shop fall foul of XP SP2 - with in one case quite expensive data recovery to get back wedding photos.  Before trying any o/s upgrade BACK UP - either just your data or better clone your hard drive.
Logged
1972 Ferrari Dino, 1967 Triumph TR4A, Mondeo 2.0TDCi Estate, Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio

Omegadoha, Desert Member

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Doha, Qatar
  • Posts: 1347
    • View Profile
Re: Windows SP3
« Reply #7 on: 23 August 2008, 16:57:00 »
The layout of IE 7 is definately better in my opinion. No need to open loads of browsers as you open tabs instead. But then I suppose you could argue that you only need to open one tab / browser - the OOF site!
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.009 seconds with 16 queries.