Xp sp3?

Mattu

Mattu

Member
I have this older IBM computer (866 MHz Pentium III) with Windows XP home on it and I was wandering if older computers can handle SP3 well? Would it even make it a bit faster?:D

Thanks
 
I've thrown it on plenty of older machines and they run just fine with SP3.
 
Mattu said:
I have this older IBM computer (866 MHz Pentium III) with Windows XP home on it and I was wandering if older computers can handle SP3 well? Would it even make it a bit faster?:D

Thanks
Click to expand...

Some of the patches/updates included in sp3 might make a few things about XP faster. I dont have much experience with SP3 but, most Service Packs generally make certain parts of the OS faster. Such as, transfering files.
 
sp3 is a basically a fully patched sp2. It doesnt add a huge amount of new features (in fact, only about 2 that noone really cares about)

it works fine on older pcs
 
Ok after I installed sp3 on my computer in my sig., I get this error message when I try to run Device Manager or Disk Defragmenter and it won't let me run them at all:
mmcerror.jpg


Haven't installed it on my older IBM yet....

thanks for any help
 
OOOO I wish I'd seen this thread sooner.... I was going to warn that SP3 has caused a few problems on certain systems since it's release(but mainly on AMD's) I hope you have a decent system restore size set aside or you may not be able to roll back either !!(can't remember the reccomended size now :( )
 
yeah it will its under add/remove. remember to check the box for "show updates"

i dont think this works if system restore is off though
 
have you done it then? and before you say YES ...really....have you uninstalled SP3 yourself then?

Read this
 
Last edited:
i have uninstalled sp2 and sp3 before

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=561

i was involved in the public beta testing of xp sp3 . i needed to uninstall sp3 because at the time (i think ms have now released an updated version) a hotfix which i needed to get HD audio working (i have sigmatel, on an intel board) would not install on sp3 - it said "invalid service pack version , please upgrade to sp2" - LOL)

check the screenie to show how to uninstall a SP

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t337/jdbennet/sp.jpg
 
well i uninstalled sp3, and everything seems to be running good so I might just stick w/ sp2 for a little while longer ;)

You think I'll get the same problem if I install it on my older IBM?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top