9 Critical Errors in Installation of XP SP3 RTM Build 5512

Users looking to Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, as Service Pack 2's second coming and the perfect reason to avoid Windows Vista SP1, might need to reconsider their plans.

The reason is rather simple, despite the fact that it has spent over two months more time in development compared to Vista SP1, while containing only a minor, standard evolution in comparison to SP2, XP SP3 has come to the table with a flood of issues, a wide variety of them impacting the deployment process. There are no less than nine officially documented scenarios in which end users will find it unable to install Windows XP SP3, and even more error messages associated with the problems.

Here the 9 critical errors (for to read the full explanation go to linked site below):

1. The XP SP3 RTM Infinite Reboot Loop

2. 8007F0F4 – STATUS_PREREQUISITE_FAILED

3. XP SP3: "Access is denied" or "Service Pack installation did not complete"

4. You do not have enough free disk space on %SystemDrive% to archive the uninstall files

5. "You do not have enough free disk space on %SystemDrive% to install Service Pack 3"

6. Intel processor-based Apple computers can also run "Out of Disk Space" it's not only PCs ..............................

7. Setup has detected that another update is in progress

8. "Service Pack 3 installation did not complete" and "An internal error occurred"

9. Windows Update Failed Installations

source: news.softpedia.com

I won't be voluntarily installing SP3 - XP has been very stable since SP2, why risk messing it up?

I won't be voluntarily installing SP3 - XP has been very stable since SP2, why risk messing it up?

I thought that too. But I'm now confident enough in creating and restoring system images that I took a chance (after making an image, of course).

And the install went OK - SP3 running with apparently no problems.

My PC asked to download SP3 and seems ok, though bloody slow at the moment - not sure that it is SP3 though.