[gui-talk] The straight skinny on Service Pack 3, please?

[Joel Deutsch]

Ray,

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. What I'm referring to as SP3 is something 
recently released for use with Windows XP. Nothing at all to do with Vista. 
Again, sorry. Didn't know you were running Vista.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The straight skinny on Service Pack 3, please?


Frankly, XP service pack III has no bearing on Vista at all.  I already have
Vista Service pack I which came down as a regular automatic update.  A few
days there after, there was a series of nine updates to this service pack
because of something  that went wrong which I don't pretend to understand.
Point is, I just use the automatic update thingy.

Sincerely,
The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
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985-360-3375
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] The straight skinny on Service Pack 3, please?


On other lists, people are going crazy messaging back and forth about the
Win XP SP 3 release that became available for download a day or two ago.
Some simply say they've downloaded and installed it, and everything's
working fine on their computers, Jaws included.

Nonetheless, others keep discussing it as if it were potentially hazardous
or, at the least, worthy of much care and concern. Some say not to bother,
because the service pack is nothing more than a collection of a lot of
updates you probably already have unless you've not been updating all along.
Others point to the size of the download, something over 300 megs, and say
before you go get it, you'd do well to defrag your hard drive, not that
occasional housekeeping of that sort is a bad idea anyway. The feeling is of
living in a small mountain town without telephones or newspapers, and
everyone's just passing rumors back and forth at the church social or
something. It's sort of nuts. Or at least, it's making me a bit crazy.

Would I be correct to believe that this service pack is a perfectly
legitimate and desirable update for my Windows XP Home SP2, won't interfere
with Jaws, probably has something or other helpful in it beyond just all the
updates I've been automatically collecting with my priority update setting,
and that I should just follow the download links some people have provided
and install the thing?

I remember Albert's already using Vista. But Nick, Mike, Steve, Doris, Ray,
and others? What are you folks doing?

Thanks.

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