Is this thing safe/recommended to download? I thought I'd read something regarding it being screwed up.

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Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

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Thunderhorn, WoW

The only screwups happen ify ou have an HP machine and an AMD processor, because it starts to use the wrong drivers for your hardware.

I'm running xp sp3 on my laptop without issue.

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Hehe, not an Hp but I do have AMD. Thanks, I'll go DL it.

Btw, what is a malicious toolkit? Norton blocked some sites attempt to install one. Is that like a keylogger, trojan?

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Larreth Wolfsong (long retired)
Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

ewwwww Norton...

3 install attempts, 3 system freezeups. The third freezeup caused it to spend 20 minutes rolling back what it had done lol....

And if Ewwww norton what....McAfee? Bleh. That trend micro bs that best buy uses? Double bleh. AVG?

What's wrong w/norton?

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Larreth Wolfsong (long retired)
Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

ESET nod32 FTW

Agreed. NOD32. And don't download SP3 from windows update. Download the redistributable.

The what and the what? lol

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Larreth Wolfsong (long retired)
Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

Redistributable is another word for the Network install version. It's an entire package that has all updates whether or not you need them. Kind of a fail-safe way to install.

And that's available for download somewhere?

What is this Nod32? Can't say I've ever heard of it.

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Thunderhorn, WoW

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I'll have to check on that when I get home =) Thanks for the link.

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Larreth Wolfsong (long retired)
Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

If it decides to not work, do a google search get lucky for...

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

Should take you straight to it.

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Make sure you shut down norton and all that before trying to run it though..

Get rid of Norton especially if you have their security package. Get Kaspersky and Spybot S&D and you will be very well protected without the 400mb bloated crap that Norton installs.

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That's no shit right there...

Definitely can't go wrong with Kaspersky either. A bit more user friendly than NOD32 as well.

Yeah Mcafee AV isnt nearly as bloated as Norton.

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No, but it still sucks compared to AVG, Avast, NOD32 or Kapersky.

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I figure I'd just continue this thread rather than start a new one. I've not done the pack 3 yet, but I've noticed that the silverlight update has tried to install like 15 times now and failed. It seems I can't at the moment use windows update for anything. All attempts to update from it result in failed updates. Odd.

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Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

I have to use Norton for work vpn. The Corporate edition doesn't consume that much memory.

Sarissa Candyangel

Sarissa, are you running the latest version, the Endpoint Protection?

Kind of bizarre. I downloaded that full Sp3 like it was suggested. It loaded all of the updates that it had successfully and then hard froze during "the cleaning up" portion. I had to reset and reboot. Took a fair amount of time to boot up and finally got into windows but was running really slow. Lot of delay. I went to Windows Update and I had 15 new updates, so apparently SP3 went through and is loaded now.

Puter seems to be running fine now, but for a few weeks I couldn't use windows update and I had a silverlight update sitting on my tray to be updated but the update would just repeatedly fail. Hell I couldn't even uninstall anything from the add/remove screen that used the windows installer.

Seems ok now however. Thanks for the help =)

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Larreth Wolfsong (long retired)
Lanys T'vyl, Everquest

Zinky, Lvl 60 Warlock
Thunderhorn, WoW

In Add/Remove Updates, click the check box that says "Show Updates". Uninstall Silverlight. Go the MS website and download Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

*Edit - If the installer in Add/Remove doesn't work (it might not), download the MSI clean up utility here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Problem solved

Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 both break Microsoft's own Retail Management System, both v1.3 and "Dynamics" v2.0. There is no fix except to avoid the update, so far.

I use Avast and Spybot S&D on my home boxes, and nothing else. Are there advantages to Kapersky over Avast?

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Depends on who you ask.

I have always found AVG to be sufficient but as Neesha said, you'll probably get different responses from everyone.

I think no matter how you slice it (if you pick AVG, Kapersky, or Avast) you'll be in much better shape than your Nortons/Symantec or Mcafee.

Muli

Thanks.

The main reason I was wondering is that when I switched from AVG to Avast, Avast ended up finding a lot of stuff on my box that AVG had never detected. So I wasn't sure if Kapersky had noticably more robust detection databases than Avast.

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I have tried installing XP SP3 twice now on my work pc each time I get the same glitch and have had to revert back to the old version.

The problem I get is that I loose DNS, if that is the right term, I can't load any pages by using the URL such as www.lansyboard.com, but I can ping IPs just fine.

The guy at tech support for my ISP told me to just forget about updating this last patch.

The other 4 pc's I have it went off without a hitch.

Any idea's?

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that's definitely something wonky w/ your work pc or the way they have the network set up. i'd guess the latter.

no network, but I have two routers and 2 access bridges to bring the high speed from my old location to the store, I shoot the wifi over a block and a half in town here

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Jake Rivers - Senex Legio
Get off my Lawn alliance

Have you disabled Windows Firewall? Also, remove the NIC cards entirely in Device Manager and re-add them after a reboot.

yes I made sure windows firewall was disabled, I noticed it was re-added after the windows update

will try the removing nic deal next, thanks

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