Beware Win XP SP3
I have been living through a nightmare today trying to get rid of Win XP service pack 3. It has taken over four hours but I think I might be back to where I started from.
This morning I decided to download and install SP3 since I wasn't going to be real busy today. Big mistake. At the very end of the update I got a BSOD (blue screen of death) saying there was a problem with win32k.sys. Win32k.sys is a Microsoft system file for God's sake. It started going on about turning off bios settings like memory shadowing etc. WTF!!!
After searching the net I discovered there are quite a few people having problems with this file and no one can seem to agree on what is causing it. Even Microsoft is very vague. To make a long story short I would strongly suggest to wait on SP3 until it has been out longer. My understanding is that it is going to start being pushed out to auto update users very soon if it hasn't been already.
Has anyone downloaded this thing and had no problems?
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