Re: [CGUYS] xp sp3

2008-05-20 Thread rlsimon
xp pro sp3 went on fine on my x31 thinkpad... no troubles displayed...


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Re: [CGUYS] XP SP3 RC2 Refresh

2008-03-31 Thread Roger D. Parish

At 4:37 PM -0500 3/31/08, Judy Cosler wrote:


what is RC2???



Release Candidate 2. That means they're getting close to RTM (Release 
To Manufacture or Release to Master). In other words, RSN (Real Soon 
Now).

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Re: [CGUYS] XP SP3 RC2 Refresh

2008-03-31 Thread Judy Cosler

what is RC2???

Roger D. Parish wrote:

About a month ago, I reported how XP SP3 RC2 caused my AMD-based PC to
blue screen on startup.

Yesterday, I learned that MicroSoft had released a "refresh" for SP3
RC2, so (ever a glutton for punishment :-) I gave it a try. Long story
short, it works just fine!

And now back to the McLaughlin Group.



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[CGUYS] XP SP3 RC2 Refresh

2008-03-31 Thread Roger D. Parish
About a month ago, I reported how XP SP3 RC2 caused my AMD-based PC 
to blue screen on startup.


Yesterday, I learned that MicroSoft had released a "refresh" for SP3 
RC2, so (ever a glutton for punishment :-) I gave it a try. Long 
story short, it works just fine!


And now back to the McLaughlin Group.
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Roger
Lovettsville, VA


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Re: [CGUYS] XP SP3 Killed My PC

2008-02-27 Thread mike
Hope you aren't beta testing on your main machine  heh

Mike

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Roger D. Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I applied the Microsoft-supplied registry hack to enable Windows
> Update to apply SP3 RC2. Yesterday morning, Update had downloaded the
> SP3 "fix". I installed it, and upon restarting, the machine went into
> a restart loop.
>
> Windows recognized that it hadn't successfully shut down previously
> and gave me a screen to select whether to do a safe startup or
> continue. I continued a couple of times, which resulted in an almost
> immediate restart each time. Finally, I chose Safe Mode, and Windows
> prompted me to do a restore to a previous checkpoint. I chose the day
> before, and everything came up properly.
>
> Needless to say, I'll let others do further experiments on SP3.
>
> FWIW
>
> YMMV
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> Roger
> Lovettsville, VA
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[CGUYS] XP SP3 Killed My PC

2008-02-27 Thread Roger D. Parish
I applied the Microsoft-supplied registry hack to enable Windows 
Update to apply SP3 RC2. Yesterday morning, Update had downloaded the 
SP3 "fix". I installed it, and upon restarting, the machine went into 
a restart loop.


Windows recognized that it hadn't successfully shut down previously 
and gave me a screen to select whether to do a safe startup or 
continue. I continued a couple of times, which resulted in an almost 
immediate restart each time. Finally, I chose Safe Mode, and Windows 
prompted me to do a restore to a previous checkpoint. I chose the day 
before, and everything came up properly.


Needless to say, I'll let others do further experiments on SP3.

FWIW

YMMV
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Roger
Lovettsville, VA


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