Sp3 fail to install

See if you can find it and try again. Reformat and reinstall and then immediately install SP3. Followed by all your apps, and then restoring your data from the backup you started with. Do that before you install anything else. Once Windows XP is up to date with SP3 then move on to reinstall your applications and restore your data.

Heck, you may even stumble on to something specific that has problems with SP3. We know. Subscribe to Confident Computing!

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Join Us Close. Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! SP3 is only a small change and there are no signifigant changes, out of 6 PC's that I've installed SP3 on I've only had one problem PC had undiagnosed errors and this was easily resolved by canceling the install. I've noticed that on three PC's the toal install was As I've and others have previously mentioned in this forum is that SP3 has some small changes and all the updates since SP2.

If you need to reinstall XP at a later date you will find it easier and quicker to install the Service Pack. There is no need to apply XP SP3 as there is nothing in it for you if you have kept the system updated. But unlike previous Windows SP's this is a easy one with very few problems included in it. Although, having said that, I DID download it within the first 36 hours.

It's currently sitting somewhere in a hard drive. If you are being annoyed by the constant reminders about SP3 there is a choice of what you can do.

Of course then you'll not have it, so the next option is maybe better It would appear that simply having the ISO, irrespective of installation, is enough to stop the reminders. If not what right to they have to check and what right do they have anyway. Remember: you don't 'own' Windows - you only pay for the Licence that allows you to run it. I would've thought a G-MAN would know that!