11 septembre 2008

Of risky Win XP SP3...

To avoid anoyance with Win XP:

A little warning about auto-update your computer with Windows XP SP3... as one of my friend had to remove it ! It seems in some case this update makes computer to permanently reboot.

So except if you are working on a test platform, may I suggest to urgently wait before autoinstalling it .

If you're facing some problems, it is simple as a program to remove it !...back to reliable SP2.

Now to be honest , I installed it at work on a new fresh install without any problem since days... but was a virtual computer !

PS : please no comment about MAc or Linux here ;-)

2 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

Hi Olivier,

If it was a HP computer the issue has been solved in the Micorosft's KB months ago.

They was also a problem for installing the updates, but it has been solved (and you can solved it easily by running a little script available on MS' forums)

But now I'm not anymore really aware of Windows problems since i'm now working mainly on FreeBSD and Linux servers :-P

Cheers
M@tt

Unknown a dit…

Thank you : Great comment, for a technician point of view !

What about end user 'alone in the dark' with his non stop rebooting computer ? He won't even now scipt and will be lost in MS knowledge base, believe me...