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Well, I just spent the last 2 days doing a complete fresh install of XP on my home machine. Day 1: double-check backups. Day 2: install.
It's an older machine with an AMD Athlon 950MHz, 640MB ram, I don't remember the motherboard details, and an OEM XP SP2 image.
Up until the reinstall I had been applying regular updates and was never prompted to install SP3, but since I'd be installing from an SP2 disk I figured I'd take my chances with installing SP3. And actually that part was the smoothest. About a month ago (or sometime shortly before the SP3 release) when I installed SP2 on another machine I had to apply about 200 updates from MS Update which took a good couple of hours to get through. Yesterday there was just 1 update (SP3) that went much faster with absolutely no hiccups.
So now, after a full day of reinstalling all my software and 5000 (or so) restarts later I'm running on a much smoother computer, complete with SP3. Of course, with all thing Microsoft, your mileage may vary.
(I'm just trying to keep this dinosaur running until the day I can replace it. And it's actually running quite well for its age.)
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