[aprssig] OT: Windows XP Service Pack 3
Stephen H. Smith
wa8lmf2 at aol.com
Sat Jun 7 01:28:00 EDT 2008
Keith VE7GDH wrote:
> Rusty WB4BSD wrote...
>
>
>> has anyone upgraded to service pack 3 yet?
>> and if so has anyone had any major problems?
>> Here, this will put it back on topic: Has service pack 3 adversely
>> affected any of the APRS programs?
>>
>
>
So far, the only problems I have seen widely reported in the trade
newsletters (eWeek, InfoWorld, Windows Secrets, etc) is installing it on
Athlon-based HP computers factory pre-loaded with an earlier version of
XP. Apparently HP stupidly loads the indentical standard setup onto
machines with either Intel or AMD processors. Some specialized driver
for the Intel CoreDuo CPUs (totally unnecessary on the AMD-equipped
machines but still present) screws up the SP3 upgrade install on the AMD
machines and leads to endless reboots. You have to escape to safe mode
and uninstall SP3 if this happens.
I have combined SP3 with a base WinXP install CD (the technique known as
"slipstreaming") and have created a CD-ROM that will cold-install XP SP3
directly. This saves a ton of space on the hard disk since all the
service paks and patches normally installed after the base install are
part of the original XP image.
[Normally every patch downloaded installed by Windows update, after the
initial install, is archived on the hard disk so that it can be
automatically installed again if some other program undoes the patch. In
addition, the file(s) replaced during the patch are also archived in
case you want to uninstall the patch. This can consume GIGABYTES of
additional disk space. On the other hand, any originally-installed
components are re-installed from the original install CD-ROM if needed;
i.e. the typical "Please insert your Windows XP CD-ROM" prompt.]
So far I have done three cold-installs with this XP SP3 slipstreamed
install disk on bare machines, followed by extensive ham setups
including UI-View, MixW, APRSpoint, APRSplus, AGW Packet Engine and
EchoLink with no problems.
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