I’ve been wondering about this — We have three machines with XP on them, and never ever have automatic updates turned on — always pick and choose updates. I have accepted all security updates on these machines, but am still on IE6 and do not plan to accept IE7. Also am still on Win Media Player 9 and will not accept Media Player 10 — do not like it.
I have not yet downloaded SP3. So you are saying it is trouble and recommend to stay away from it?
Thanks in advance.
It seemed to be trouble to me when I installed it on top of a machine that had SP2 and a ton of the security installed hotfixes on top of it.
But on a vanilla machine that I rebuilt, and applied SP2 then SP3 right after - no issues.
I figured the SP and one of the previous hotfixes didn’t play nice.
Most of what SP3 entails is those hotfixes anyway - unless you’re running software that explicitly requires it... best to avoid.