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

[Steve Jacobson]

Joel,

You can see that everybody has their own theory.  Mine is that unless there is something I know will benefit me directly, I 
wait until it is available through automatic updates.  I may still get it manually, but I figure that when it goes to automatic 
updates, Microsoft is pretty confident that it is stable.  This is base of course on the fact that I do Windows Updates 
periodically so I should already have most of the security patches and the like.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:01:07 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:

>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They say it's been withdrawn for now.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.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org
>[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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