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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Do NOT install Windows XP Service Pack 3 v3311 RC2 Refresh + PC help please

im on service pack 2 and no troubles for me as of yet (crosses fingers)



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This thread should be locked since it's talking about a release candidate and not a final product meant for the general public.



A mod created it so it is fine. Mod's are gods they are above the rules of the forum. The mere mortals must comply with the rules.



redspear said:
LOL OS X leopard also had its issues and in some regards still does like Rosetta Stone not working or AE CS3 not working in 10.5.0 and several crashes which have been fixed with 5.2 and 5.1 which brougth other issues.

SSJ12 RC stands for Release Candidate there were problems with RC1 and when they fixed them it caused other issues that lead to what you see in RC2. I like RCs but I know they are not perfect and are out there solely to get a large number of logs on other problems and configurations they aren't accounting for yet. XP and Vista RCs had issues that weren't in the final build. But yeah you don't download a RC/Beta/Alpha software on a system you intend to use. What for the official release.

 I have ran into no issues with RC1 and i know what RC stands for... I know computers pretty darn well.



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I have had Sp3 for a while now and nothing has gone wrong for me but then again I am one of those people that tried Vista and it worked like a dream for me.

This is the first time ever I have had Windows versions that didn´t give me any trouble at some point.



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ssj12 said:

Microsoft screwed up BADLY. There is an error in the install that can cause Blue Screens during start-up and makes the OS crawl slower then XP Service Pack 1.

This error caused an XML glitch I cant figure out how to fix. I had to install a new chat program, Pidgin, to use AIM/MSN because of this error affected Trillian. Anyone have a clue how to fix this, Trillian is 100% better and cleaner.

How the heck did M$ screw up their 8 year old OS? I seriously underestimated their stupidty. They have complete idiots programming for them.

 

Edit: btw RC1 v3300 works great, I suggest you to install it.


So... you installed a release candidate and ran into problems?  Shocking.  Despite that I wish I could help you; I can only assume other people have run into it too so perhaps Google may yet save you.

As an aside, Pidgin is a solid IM client.  I actually switched to it from Trillian.  Trillian Pro feels very clunky when handling multiple accounts.  Everything else about it was solid though (and skins were great).

Anyway, I'll wait for a bit after the official release has been in the wild for a bit before jumping onboard. 



@redspear how dare you question a mod on the forum. ssj12 knows more about PC's than most of us mortals on this site.



I was going to install date update but i was thinking to meslf that it might mash up me windows xp, i'm finking along the lines off the conversion rate of consumers going to vista is low so Microsoft are going to release an update to mash up XP an slow it down so you will turn Vista.

lets wait untill its completly finnished and i will wait fir the reviews in the forums



Words Of Wisdom said:
ssj12 said:

Microsoft screwed up BADLY. There is an error in the install that can cause Blue Screens during start-up and makes the OS crawl slower then XP Service Pack 1.

This error caused an XML glitch I cant figure out how to fix. I had to install a new chat program, Pidgin, to use AIM/MSN because of this error affected Trillian. Anyone have a clue how to fix this, Trillian is 100% better and cleaner.

How the heck did M$ screw up their 8 year old OS? I seriously underestimated their stupidty. They have complete idiots programming for them.

 

Edit: btw RC1 v3300 works great, I suggest you to install it.


So... you installed a release candidate and ran into problems?  Shocking.  Despite that I wish I could help you; I can only assume other people have run into it too so perhaps Google may yet save you.

As an aside, Pidgin is a solid IM client.  I actually switched to it from Trillian.  Trillian Pro feels very clunky when handling multiple accounts.  Everything else about it was solid though (and skins were great).

Anyway, I'll wait for a bit after the official release has been in the wild for a bit before jumping onboard. 


See the thing is I have been using the SP3 beta for a while.  The jump from beta was from v3100 to v3300.

RC1 to RC2 was just v3300 to v3311.  Should have just been code clean up.  Its not shocking that there are bugs, jsut rather annoying that the minor code clean-up should have problems like this.



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Off topic:
SSJ12 why didn't you tell us that the new firefox beta was released in the news section?
I was getting used to finding the new beta released on this website. You used to give a compact explanation of the improvements so I didn't have to do it myself.