peterandjean Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I am thinking it is time to update to Windows Service Pack 3 but previously on the forum it said wait a bit as there could be a problem in some areas of PTE. I would do a restore point first and I have saved my folders on an external hard drive. Please adviseJean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Jean use the search and read my thread re making a fresh windows disk - once the update is made your original disk is usefless unlessyou reformatken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Jeanhttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry56030cant say whether all my links are there stillken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterandjean Posted January 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Jean use the search and read my thread re making a fresh windows disk - once the update is made your original disk is usefless unlessyou reformatkenI have typed in on the search making a fresh windows disk and it comes up no results found please could you please adviseJean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 jean see the whole trhead -- the link is there nowken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hi JeanI upgraded a couple of months ago after delaying a couple of months. All went well, so I upgraded my second machine also without probllems. I think one of the main criterea is your processor, mine were both Pentium, I seem to remember there was an issue with other processors.Yachtsman1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterandjean Posted January 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hi JeanI upgraded a couple of months ago after delaying a couple of months. All went well, so I upgraded my second machine also without probllems. I think one of the main criterea is your processor, mine were both Pentium, I seem to remember there was an issue with other processors.Yachtsman1Hi yachtsman and kenThank you both for your help. I have read info Ken and need to look again at it to thoroughly understand it.On my older machine that has a pentium processor but does not have PTE the SP3 download went smoothly with no hiccupsMy other machine which has PTE on has the following processor so when I pluck up courage to download SP3 on this machine I will let you know the outcomeI have an Intel®Pentium®D CPU 2.8GHz processorManufacturer GenuineintelThank you both once again for your continued help. I love PTEJean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antbrewer Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hello Jean,As Yachtsman has said the issue with Service Pack 3 was indeed with the type of processor, ie, a pentium or AMD.I have an AMD on my desktop and Pentium on my Laptop. I have installed SP3 on both but with caution on the desktop and all works well. PtE was never an issue with it as far as I knew.The problem was that AMDs would sometimes loop into a crash/reboot situation with SP3 installed .A friend of mine experienced this so I did see it first hand.If you have pentiums you shouldn't have a problem.Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xahu34 Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Jean,The problems concerning SP3 and AMD CPUs mentioned by Anthony are described here.Regards,Xaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Jean I have been using sp3 since june 2008 with an AMD processer with no problems at all, although my windows version is XPpro rather than the home addition.regardsGeoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterandjean Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Jeanhttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry56030cant say whether all my links are there stillkenHi KenAs promised I said I would let you know when I installed Windows SP3. All worked smoothly. Took about half an hour. Backed files up firstFirst I went to Start/All Programs/Accessories/SystemRestore/ then created a restore point and then activated the download for SP3 during the SP3 download a file backup was automatically done. I do have a pentium proccessor. Thank you for your helpJean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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