SP3 Installed - Great Result

gbalbion · **12th May 2008, 08:27 AM**

I have installed SP3 onto my Windows XP Pro. On first impressions it looks the same, however the results are a huge improvement.
Areas I have noticed to date are speed, good improvement, better file handling. I also use Windows One Care Version 2, the 1st auto tune up completed this morning in around half the normal time. Also under SP2 the defrag never completed saying the disk was extensively fragmented. Under SP3 a 100% defrag completed in record time.

So to date I would highly recommend that the update to SP3 be installed. I will post more as I discover.

Regards gbalbion

TheRob · **12th May 2008, 08:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by gbalbion

I will post more as I discover.

Regards gbalbion

Thanks for the info. It might be wise to post in the XP forum next time

arkay · **12th May 2008, 10:16 AM**

Have moved this thread to the XP forums

I put XPSP3 on my gaming rig. Can't say I noticed anything different but I haven't tested it for performance. At least it didn't break!

Cheers,

Arkay.

vlad · **12th May 2008, 10:49 AM**

XP SP3 does not have any out-of-band performance improvements, which means that you did not keep your PC updated, because all performance improvements in SP3 were published before, via Windows Update.
Or you are taking some placebos

ExtremePC · **12th May 2008, 12:31 PM**

I installed XP and SP3 over the w'end and it improved my Vista machine by leaps and bounds. Everything now works much quicker and my FPS in games improved between 20% to 50% with SLI'd 7950's! XP & Sp3 sure is an improvement on Vista.

vlad · **12th May 2008, 12:37 PM**

Yes, XP is a serious improvement of Vista. I recommend to upgrade

pantonious · **12th May 2008, 03:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by vlad

XP SP3 does not have any out-of-band performance improvements, which means that you did not keep your PC updated, because all performance improvements in SP3 were published before, via Windows Update.
Or you are taking some placebos

actually, thats not entirely true...SP3 also includes many updates that were not avaliable through Microsoft Update...They were the ones you needed to call microsoft and have them e-mail you a link and password...

A workmate has noticed an improvement with the responciveness in XP SP3 using Virtual PC 2007 (ie, using VPC 2007 on the SP3 machine...not running it from a VPC

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vlad · **12th May 2008, 04:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by pantonious

actually, thats not entirely true...SP3 also includes many updates that were not avaliable through Microsoft Update...They were the ones you needed to call microsoft and have them e-mail you a link and password...

That is what called out-of-band updates, and there was no performance improvement updates.
Please read here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480/
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist

bb193 · **12th May 2008, 11:57 PM**

I have a Hauppauge T500 DVB-T tuner. Any version of USBEHCI.SYS after the original SP2 generates 'instabilities' - shorthand for BSODs - with this card. http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/sho...t=9888&page=28

I understand they have been able to track the fault back to Microsoft, and are talking to them - but SP3 will still hit it hard.

They seem to imply that this will apply to many other USB tuners.

I've taken my 2 non-MCE PCs to SP3 with no problem. I'll need a lot of convincing before I take my MCE to it.

PS The Hauppauge website seems to be broken at the moment. Coincidence?

bushwalker · **14th May 2008, 09:32 AM**

I have a problem with IE 7. Every time it launches the CPU usage goes to 50% and the application hangs until it's killed off. Even the hotfix for IE 7, which gets installed together with IE 7, doesn't help.

It looks like that IE 7 is not compatible with SP 3, so I'm still using IE 6.
Does anybody else has the same experience?