Monday, August 5, 2002 |
11:32 - For Our Windows Friends
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=020731BL-CNET
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Just in case anybody's an early-adopter out there and jumping on the just-released Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, well... if it isn't too late for you already, don't install it. A number of people in my office have already fallen prey.
W2KnewsFLASH: ~ Service Pack 3 for W2K! ~
But careful, it has not yet been officially announced, and the first problem reports are also already in. Some one just sent me an email with: "Downloaded and installed the final release of W2K SP3. After a clean install and a reboot I got the blue screen of death. Only after uninstalling a rare application from my desktop it worked OK."
W2K SP3 is at the moment we are writing this (Wednesday afternoon, July 31, 2002) not yet on the normal MS download site and not "acknowledged as existing for the wide world" so far. However, it was released yesterday to the MS Premier Support Customers and these are now testing with it. We have installed on a few W2K systems and it seems to be functioning correctly, but careful: TEST, TEST, TEST!. And always backup that system and make an Emergency Repair Disk. Also, always have enough disk space to allow a rollback in case of problems.
I don't know what conditions cause the conflict, but it's clearly something that's fairly widespread, considering how many people here at work are staring furiously at bootup screens and ScanDisk recovery processes. Too late to see the IT warning that went around admonishing us all not to install SP3, on pain of death.
I'm just sayin', is all.
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