XP SP3 Haterz?!

this_is_gav said:
If I'm understanding you correctly you're expecting something which patches OS DLL files to continue working without a hitch after a service patch? Right...
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not exactly. I fresh installed XP SP2 then SP3 immediately after, then everything else and lastly Xpize.

It borked!
 
Butters said:
no, that's what you're getting at :p
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why are you trying to be a smart arse? i'm only trying to help you. there's no need for me to quote your post yet again. you're expecting xpize to patch sp3 files when it can only patch sp2 files. is it really that hard for you to understand? i don't think i can break it down any easier.
 
have to agree with marc & gav

installing sp3 AFTER xpize is safer than doing it the way you did



its amazing the amount of users on here who expect 3rd party freeware projects to work flawlessly with alpha/beta/rc versions of microsoft os's..

be realistic for god sake
 
well on the site sp3 rc apparently works ok with nite, however i dont think most people will bother untill the whole software is out and its worth burning a cd for...
 
siclilmonkey said:
has any1 tryed slipstreaming sp3 on to the xp disk with Nlite?

http://www.nliteos.com/
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it slipstreams fine, nlite doesn't do anything magical to slipstream, it's just a gui for something that the service pack can do anyway

however, nlite doesn't fully support sp3 yet (in the setup & removals sense) just wait until it's final before using it on real machines
 
and perhaps none of you read my first post. It was the initial installing of SP3 that kicked Xpize out to touch and forced WIN Classic. That makes more logical sense as it is returning system files to an original state.


Thats when I thought I'd try it the other way around to the same avail. SP3 is locking down and thats that.

Perhaps when Xpize gets redone with C# it will sort this issue but really there is more to SP3 than it just being a full list of all updates since SP2.
 
Only problem I've had with XP SP3 so far has been kaspersky crashing, fixed itself after it updated though :) The OS definately feels more responsive though, probably my imagination!
 
didnt do a clean install, just slapped it over the top of my rather old SP2 instance. Runs nicely, did they pinch some of the pre-caching from Vista? it certainly feels more responsive when you fire apps up. Has dumped the visual settings once or twice, but a reboot fixed it each time (everything goes back to looking like win2000, grey, grey, grey), though I think that results more from having that Vista desktop thing (forget which) installed a long time ago and removing it since.
No complaints overall though.
 
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