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chris m
Someone told me not to update sp3 pack for windows xp because it will slowly damage your hard drive. Is it true? How can I uninstall sp3?
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Windows XP SP3 Woes Especially Affect AMD Systems
Users who thought the Windows XP operating system would be more reliable than its younger sibling Vista are being buffeted by reports that the latest update for XP, Service Pack 3, has its own problems.
A variety of complaints about SP3 are being posted on the Web, with users complaining about system crashes, spontaneous reboots, and other issues. On the Windows XP forum at Microsoft.com, for instance, a poster named Doug W. said that, after installing SP3, he had to use system restore âafter three attempts, with different configurations each time.â He mentioned that his system has an Athlon chip from Advanced Micro Devices, and other users have reported similar problems with SP3 on AMD machines.
AMD-Based HP Machines
According to news reports, a Microsoft document lays the blame for the endless reboot problem after installing SP3 on some computer makers. The issue, the document said, is when the XP disc image is created on an Intel-based computer and then run on a non-Intel-based machine, such as an AMD one.
Jesper Johansson, who used to work for Microsoft, noted on his blog that Microsoft identified the same problem with Service Pack 2 for XP, and that the particular problem is unique to Hewlett-Packard AMD-based desktop machines.
He quoted the company as saying in an article written following the XP SP2 problem that it did not support using a computer with one kind of processor to run an operating system based on an image created on a computer with another kind of processor. The article described how to modify the Windows registry to correct the problem.
SP3 was released to broad distribution by Microsoft last Wednesday, and is available from Windows Update service or from the companyâs Download Center. It offers a variety of fixes and enhancements to XP, which Microsoft has said it will begin phasing out at the end of next month.
Could Be âPretty Significantâ
It has also been reported that SP3 will not install on systems that run a beta of Internet Explorer 8 and, after successfully installing SP3, IE7 cannot be uninstalled to, say, use IE6 instead.
Laura DiDio, an analyst with industry research firm Yankee Group, said some of the bugs in SP3 âwere usual,â but others, such as the apparent issues with AMD-based HP machines, were the kind of âserious problemsâ with an update that havenât been heard about âin years.â
She said observers should âgive it another week or twoâ to see if people are still having substantial problemsâ and, if they are, âthis could be pretty significant.â
DiDio added that the reported âhundredsâ of complaints will be seen by Microsoft as relatively few. But, she said, it could impact enterprise users, since continued reports of problems could provide more reason for IT departments to delay updating XP with SP3.
Barry Levine
Windows XP SP3 Woes Especially Affect AMD Systems
Users who thought the Windows XP operating system would be more reliable than its younger sibling Vista are being buffeted by reports that the latest update for XP, Service Pack 3, has its own problems.
A variety of complaints about SP3 are being posted on the Web, with users complaining about system crashes, spontaneous reboots, and other issues. On the Windows XP forum at Microsoft.com, for instance, a poster named Doug W. said that, after installing SP3, he had to use system restore âafter three attempts, with different configurations each time.â He mentioned that his system has an Athlon chip from Advanced Micro Devices, and other users have reported similar problems with SP3 on AMD machines.
AMD-Based HP Machines
According to news reports, a Microsoft document lays the blame for the endless reboot problem after installing SP3 on some computer makers. The issue, the document said, is when the XP disc image is created on an Intel-based computer and then run on a non-Intel-based machine, such as an AMD one.
Jesper Johansson, who used to work for Microsoft, noted on his blog that Microsoft identified the same problem with Service Pack 2 for XP, and that the particular problem is unique to Hewlett-Packard AMD-based desktop machines.
He quoted the company as saying in an article written following the XP SP2 problem that it did not support using a computer with one kind of processor to run an operating system based on an image created on a computer with another kind of processor. The article described how to modify the Windows registry to correct the problem.
SP3 was released to broad distribution by Microsoft last Wednesday, and is available from Windows Update service or from the companyâs Download Center. It offers a variety of fixes and enhancements to XP, which Microsoft has said it will begin phasing out at the end of next month.
Could Be âPretty Significantâ
It has also been reported that SP3 will not install on systems that run a beta of Internet Explorer 8 and, after successfully installing SP3, IE7 cannot be uninstalled to, say, use IE6 instead.
Laura DiDio, an analyst with industry research firm Yankee Group, said some of the bugs in SP3 âwere usual,â but others, such as the apparent issues with AMD-based HP machines, were the kind of âserious problemsâ with an update that havenât been heard about âin years.â
She said observers should âgive it another week or twoâ to see if people are still having substantial problemsâ and, if they are, âthis could be pretty significant.â
DiDio added that the reported âhundredsâ of complaints will be seen by Microsoft as relatively few. But, she said, it could impact enterprise users, since continued reports of problems could provide more reason for IT departments to delay updating XP with SP3.
Barry Levine
when is the windows phone with 41 MP camera being released?
Healthy Ha
For over an year now there has been big talk of a new windows smartphone to have 1.5 Ghz processor, 2GB RAM, 64 GB internal storage and a 41 MP camera. But somehow its never there in the market.
Do you think their utterly slow release will kill patience of the consumer and he would instead go for android than to wait and wait?
microsoft also claims that this phone will be a game changer. But per latest news they posted, "unfortunately the release of our best phone ever has been delayed by 8 months due to technicalities"
So can i assume in november they will release it? i need a new smartphone real bad, so somehow i have to wait 8 months more for their release now.
Last year they said it would be released in Late Feb 2013 and i held on to the old phone for 7 months anticipating feb 13 release.
now i will have to wait 8 more months?
Answer
Hopefully never.
That kind of extreme camera resolution would be totally wasted on such a tiny sensor. There would be huge amounts of image noise to control which would require software correction that would smear out any advantage from that type of sensor. The sensor would use a lot more power so shortening battery life or requiring a heavier battery. The size of the output image files would also be huge unless they are extremely compressed, so you'd need correspondingly huge memory card capacities (and it would waste hard disc space on your host pc) or the compression would be so high that most of the detail captured would be thrown away almost as soon as it's captured. The phone processor would also have to work overtime just to perform noise reduction and compression on such huge RAW files and you would use excessive data bandwidth if you wished to share such images.
A camera such as you describe on any phone would be utterly useless except as a marketing device to gullible fools who have no idea about cameras and who would scoff at the fact that even a 2MP sensor can produce excellent images printing up to A4 size if the lens and software (plus the meatbag behind the camera) are up to the task.
Hopefully never.
That kind of extreme camera resolution would be totally wasted on such a tiny sensor. There would be huge amounts of image noise to control which would require software correction that would smear out any advantage from that type of sensor. The sensor would use a lot more power so shortening battery life or requiring a heavier battery. The size of the output image files would also be huge unless they are extremely compressed, so you'd need correspondingly huge memory card capacities (and it would waste hard disc space on your host pc) or the compression would be so high that most of the detail captured would be thrown away almost as soon as it's captured. The phone processor would also have to work overtime just to perform noise reduction and compression on such huge RAW files and you would use excessive data bandwidth if you wished to share such images.
A camera such as you describe on any phone would be utterly useless except as a marketing device to gullible fools who have no idea about cameras and who would scoff at the fact that even a 2MP sensor can produce excellent images printing up to A4 size if the lens and software (plus the meatbag behind the camera) are up to the task.
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