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

Thu May 1 11:05:24 CDT 2008

Hi Steve,

I understand. Personally, I do have auto updates enabled on my Win XP 
system, so unless it's turned itself off without my knowledge, I should have 
everything that would have been tagged by MS as a critical update for a long 
time at this point, and unless I see a trustworthy bulletin from Microsoft 
actually saying that Service Pack 3 contains some vital bug fixes, new 
functionality or security patches that everyone needs, and no one will have 
unless they install the pack pronto themselves, I think I'll wait the month 
or so until it just installs itself the first week of June or so.

I think what unnerved me for a time was how awfully excited everyone got 
about it on nearly all the mailing lists I'm on. Everyone is discussing it 
excitedly as if it were one enormous critical update that you ignore at your 
peril, and I'm afraid the anxiety is contagious.

I'm going to stop worrying about it entirely now. Thanks for chiming in.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The straight skinny on Service Pack 3, please?

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They say it's been withdrawn for now.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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