Service Pack 3???? SLOW

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Sathsayin

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Ok guys i'm not talking in particuler to any computer. I'm just curious what you guys who haven't moved up to vista yet like myself think about service pack 3. I started off with windows xp home Then when i installed service pack 1 some spyware went away and computer got faster on most of pc's i work on. When service pack 2 came out it sped up everything tremendously. Along with the upgrades on the windows firewall and among other things includeing blocking spyware and such. Now service pack 3 has came out. I find myself haveing issues with power schemes along with drivers that worked good in service pack 2 becomeing not as stable in sp3. For instance on a client's computer if you have service pack 2 installed and his wireless adapter you get 5 bars on a clean install. You install sp3 and bam 2 bars max with the signal crapping out. Some may argue you it's the driver. But it just seems that its a pile of crap anybody else see there system slow down say 10% with each service pack release. I know that a bigger service pack will give you more options. but come on guys a 66mb windows update shouldn't do that. I know some of you have machiens that could boot xp to the desktop in 13 seconds sp2 15 seconds sp3. where as mine would take 45 seconds service pack 2 1:10 seconds service pack3 also seems some of my programs are flaky with service pack3 installed. You guys got any problems with service pack 3 you didn't with service pack 2
 
I've only seen SP3 resolve issues on a machine, not cause them. But that's likely due to corrupted files/settings that just happen to get replaced during the installation.
 
that's true but this is not what i'm talking about. I'm talking full reformat reinstall. testing then installing sp3 then have issues.

If youve never experiened an issue then that's cool im talking for those that have experienced any. what are some of the issues you guys have had specificly
 
SP 3 does slow down system boot times. I've updates various builds at work, and every single one is slower at boot. It's much more noticeable on my older systems. The PIII 256MB machines absolutely are dreadfull boot up with SP3, they only sucked boot up with sp2.
 
yah I noticed that one to. It's wierd people with fast machines want notice the diffrence. When i was stuck on a 56k modem I knew when i had a spyware infection. I don't think people really care at this point in time but it seems that something is fishy to me!
 
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