[Chair]

has anybody upgraded to this yet? I read something the other day about IE7 not working after installing the update so I was somewhat apprehensive.

[Lord Kain]

Well, I just installed Windows on a laptop today and it was fine.

Though I installed the SP3 before IE7. So I don't know what will happen if IE7 is already installed.

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

I think I heard that if you have IE7 installed when you install SP3 then you can't uninstall IE7 and go back to IE6, or something to that effect

[Goofus Maximus]

I've been running it for two days now. Honestly, I don't notice any difference in any way whatsoever. I have Black Hole detection turned off, so I'm not going to notice the new detection algorithm.

Maybe if I were on a network with a Windows 2008 server, I'd notice something, due to the Network Access Protection.

[hans5849]

So it's been released then?

[Lord Kain]

Yes, released and on Windows update

[Chair]

what's this black hole detection shit now? haha

[Goofus Maximus]

TCP/IP settings. You see it if you use TCP Optimizer to tweak your TCP/IP connection. Black Hole detection is the way TCP/IP detects routers that don't handle packets correctly, so it can ignore those routers, sort of.

The Kernel mode cryptographic code may be the only thing that will affect me in the future...

[demonizeZ]

you will notice a great increase in loading speed if ya use micro $oft office 2k7 in sp2 it took a while to load and in sp3 its instant

[ninefivezero]

I updated to SP3 yesterday and don't notice any improvements in speed, or any of that (didn't expect to).

All I get is my MP3s skipping (Winamp) almost every time I click or scroll in Firefox!!

Thoughts?

[j0k3r]

Originally Posted by ninefivezero

I updated to SP3 yesterday and don't notice any improvements in speed, or any of that (didn't expect to).

All I get is my MP3s skipping (Winamp) almost every time I click or scroll in Firefox!!

Thoughts?

Are you on pages using heavy javascript? My wife was on a page earlier that was using 25% of the CPU. It didn't do this before SP3. Javascript and SP3 don't play nice with each other.

[-Sevendust-]

heh locked up my other computer, had to use a restore point. Will not be trying again.

[Goofus Maximus]

Yep. Firefox with any flash or animated gif content uses 100% CPU when scrolling. Hopefully the next version will do better, though I'm not counting on it...

[ninefivezero]

It actually happens on EVERY webpage, and yah, my CPU usage jumps a lot to do just that simple task (scroll or click a link, etc).

[Mr. Ali]

Originally Posted by ninefivezero

I updated to SP3 yesterday and don't notice any improvements in speed, or any of that (didn't expect to).

All I get is my MP3s skipping (Winamp) almost every time I click or scroll in Firefox!!

Thoughts?

heh, i had this same problem. I just updated winamp and also in the output settings changed it so my audio is hardware accelerated. now i have some other issues. One is that whenever I turn my little volume thing on my logitech keyboard i loose the ability to click on ANYTHING. All I can do is hit the power button on my computer to gracefully shut it down. I can move the mouse, just not click on anything, very strange. I even put in another hard drive, reinstalled windows, all the latest drivers and some simple programs I use (firefox/winamp/etc) and SAME PROBLEM. My volume control on my keyboard is useless until I can find a fix

Also, right after I put in my password at the login prompt and hit enter, I see my wallpaper and before my icons and taskbar come up on the top right of the screen a window pops up really fast that reads "personalizing settings" and below that it shows something like c\windows\update -wupdate or something.

[Goofus Maximus]

From what I've read lately, SP3 has "issues", installing drivers that should not be installed, like installing Intel Power Management drivers on AMD systems, depending on the version of the image they installed from.

[-Sevendust-]

yeah, Im running amd's I wont be running sp3.

[ninefivezero]

Fuck SP3, I'm getting pissed

Anyone think I'll have any problems just uninstalling it?

[MSP]

I've installed it on a Dell D600 laptop and my Core 2 Duo desktop. No problems so far, but both are running Intel CPUs. And I didn't realize people still used Winamp.

[randomtask]

It's sabotage to get you to buy Vista!! :P

[sims]

so I guess I'll be waiting abit before I upgrade :P

[Torx]

all of my ebay emails are going straight to my outlook trash. WTF?
it didnt happen until i upgraded to SP3.

ive been noticing this the past few days..

outlook will say i have two emails, but theres no in the inbox then i discovered the new emails are in the trash.. fuckin crap

[Mr. Ali]

^^ microsoft is out to get you torx. don't take off that tin foil hat for even one second man.