Re: XP Home service pack 3???

VtShriner wrote:
Mel,

I attempted to install Service Pack 3 last night -- started it around
midnight and went to bed. When I got up this morning, I was informed
that the upgrade was successful, and that I only needed to restart my
system to complete the upgrade. When I attempted to restart the system,
it failed to restart. I finally got it up in "safe mode" and then
pondered what to do next. Upon the advice of a local computer repair
shop I was advised to uninstall the Service Pack which I did do, but
have found that my system is running a bit slower than before. BTW, my
system is a Media Center XP which I have been told is an advanced
version of XP Pro. Can't verify that, though.

Dave


2 PCs so far:


emachines T3624 - worked
Dell Dim 4500 - hosed the system, slowed it to a crawl, had to go back to XP SP2. Now, I had a similar problem with an update to explorer - which I had to uninstall. Wondering if this same update is in SP3.

Guy
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