BlitzenZeus
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Re: Windows XP Service Pack 3
Most people who have installed a update, or patch have encountered at least one bad one, some of these are beta, do you really want to install a beta patch?? |
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novaflare
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| said by BlitzenZeus  :Most people who have installed a update, or patch have encountered at least one bad one, some of these are beta, do you really want to install a beta patch?? Strangly never on my own system. Probably because i never update a old os install and instead opt for a reformat then start piling on the updates. I realy started doing this in case the worst did happen and the os went belly up id not have much to loose. Seems that most isues with updates happen on old beat up installs.
I fully agree dont fool around with betas less your ready to acept the risk invulved. If your willing and able i say go for it. The update might just give you exactly what your after. But if your not willing to loose data or have your os go belly up and be totaly unrecoverable other than a full reformat then stay away.
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BlitzenZeus
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| In my case I wouldn't be effected to badly, while I don't use system restore which is actually quite worthless against real problems, I make semi-frequent images of my operating system partition while keeping additional information/applications on other partitions. So if an uninstall doesn't work I can always go back.
I've only encountered two bad updates, one messed up my desktop, and icons on Win98se, it was a local exploit so it would have to be on my system to effect me so I was not worried, and another on XP, when Microsoft first released bluetooth drivers for XP they were actually the beta drivers being developed in XP SP2, so Microsoft was giving beta drivers out with their bluetooth hardware people actually paid for. When SP2 came out I did a clean install with a slipstreamed SP2, and the new drivers were much better. The real issue was they didn't let you know they were beta drivers, but I also became part of the XP SP2 beta testing so I figured it out real quick...
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novaflare
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| said by BlitzenZeus :In my case I wouldn't be effected to badly, while I don't use system restore which is actually quite worthless against real problems, I make semi-frequent images of my operating system partition while keeping additional information/applications on other partitions. So if an uninstall doesn't work I can always go back. I've only encountered two bad updates, one messed up my desktop, and icons on Win98se, it was a local exploit so it would have to be on my system to effect me so I was not worried, and another on XP, when Microsoft first released bluetooth drivers for XP they were actually the beta drivers being developed in XP SP2, so Microsoft was giving beta drivers out with their bluetooth hardware people actually paid for. When SP2 came out I did a clean install with a slipstreamed SP2, and the new drivers were much better. The real issue was they didn't let you know they were beta drivers, but I also became part of the XP SP2 beta testing so I figured it out real quick... Lol sounds like a ooopsy to me. Ati shipped out their radeon 9200 with beta 4.1 cat drivers lol. Nvidia did the same with i thing the 5500 t one point forget the brand of the nvidia card now. I just know this sort of beta driver v real driver happens now and then compleatly by accident. I know it was a accident with ati for sure because the beta they shipped for that shipment included a beta tester only utility for drivers 
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