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

[Joel Deutsch]

I wasn't worried about download size. Other people said things about that. 
Not regarding speed, but hard drive housekeeping. Who knows.

They say it's been withdrawn for now. If it's reposted, maybe I'll go get 
it. Or maybe I'll just wait until it installs automatically during some 
silent auto update. That would be fine with me, too. I don't think it's 
probably urgent, no matter how excited people are getting over it.
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The straight skinny on Service Pack 3, please?


Since the release to the automatic update site has been delayed I believe it
would be the safest thing to wait until it becomes a available there but
personally I'd install it anyway.  Only those lacking broad band connections
should be worried by the size of the download.  Microsoft has taken the
necessary precautions to back everything during the installation and all
will  go well.

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[mailto:gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:02 AM
To: GUI-Talk
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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