So XP SP3 was released today. I installed it without any real problems, but don't see much of a difference. Anyone else take the plunge?
Does SP3 fix the networking issues with Vista machines? I'm having a devil of a time getting a shared printer connected to an XP Pro SP2 machine to show up on my Vista Home Premium SP1 laptop. -Jay
My printer works with all the XP machines networked, but the Vista machine won't see it, even after I installed Microsoft's Vista networking patch on the XP machine. -Jay
I am waiting for the SP 1 Vista up date to get de-bugged before I try it on my Vista computer. Same for XP 3 for my XP machine. Waiting to hear what others have to say.
My new laptop came with Vista SP1 preinstalled. I haven't really had any issues once I got everything set to classic settings so I can find everything in the menus. -Jay
Mine was picked up automatically by the updater (it's set to look automatically, but to confirm when found). Now I can't tell if it's installing or has died
I installed the new SP 1 for Vista and now my digital camera won't autoplay or do anything when I put the SD memory card into my computer's slot. I have to use the USB cable instead and even that didn't work at first until I changed the settings. Don't know what happened.
We did the SP1 for Vista on our desktop (it is a Velocity Micro that we bought at Best Buy and has Vista Ultimate on it), and my dad's Sony camera's memory card (Compact Flash) is read automatically once he inserts the card into the computer. I also did the XP SP3 update on my Toshiba laptop and everything is running smoothly.
Gamer - after you have Vista SP1, and XP SP3 running, how well do they get along on the network togeather? I can't seem to get a shared printer on an XP machine to even be visible to the Vista machines. -Jay
No problems whatsoever. I do, however, do not have a wireless printing network setup (although I am thinking about setting one up in the future since all I would have to do is hook an ethernet cable from the back of our HP printer/copier/scanner/fax to one of the ports on the back of the router). My setup is as follows: Velocity Micro Dekstop in our study running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 with our Embarq DSL modem directly connected to the desktop and the two connected to my Belkin N1 Wireless-N router My Toshiba laptop running Windows XP SP3 and accessing the internet wirelessly (I always use this to post my messages) Xbox 360 in my living room hooked to our HDTV with the Xbox gaming adapter that picks up the wireless signal PS3 80 GB that has built in wireless My Slingbox Pro that is connected to my Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming Adapter that transmits the signal I have had all of the devices on and running and none of them have any problem connecting to my wireless network at home (even all at the same time).
I have no problems with all devices on the network, and accessing the internet, but sharing files and printers is next to impossible so far with the Vista machine. Last night at work I thought of the solution you mentioned... My Brother laser printer at work has an ethernet port on the back as well. I plugged it into the router, then tried to search for a network printer, and my laptop (Vista) didn't see it. I'll play with it more next week. -Jay
Jay, sometimes you can connect to a network printer by using it's IP address, like this: \\ipaddress\lp. If all else fails, you can try looking up the IP address of the printer in the router client list, then addressing it in this manner.
I'll have to give it a static IP then. Right now its assigned by DHCP, so it changes every day... -Jay
Well you could always change the settings in your router to only use a certain "pool" of IP addresses like I do (I have 192.168.1.2 up to .....1.11). That way, you can narrow the list. Also I don't know if your printer allows this, but I set my Xbox 360 to a certain IP address (static) so it uses the same one every time it connects to the internet. That way, I can get in lobbies with my friends. I also bridged my modem so my NAT on my 360 is always set to Open.
I can reserve a block to only be used for static IP's. I just didn't mess with it much. I'll have more time to play with it next week. -Jay
I've found some update problems with XP SP3. I had to do a reinstall on my wife's Acer notebook. After the install the first thing you get is the update to SP3, so I figured great, only 1 update instead of 120 individual ones. After doing the the SP3 there were a few individuals updates left to do and they were failing even after several attempts. I did a google search and found this to be pretty common. Did the reinstall again and did all the individual hot fixes and not SP3 and it's all good now.
I had to reinstall XP, as a program I uninstalled messed up explorer.exe very badly. Everything works fine so far.
I guess Microsoft is building Vista to try and beat the Mac's media editing capabilities. I was looking at some pictures I took at a wedding I was at over the weekend, and I noticed one of my options to do with them is "Make a movie" I've been playing with it, and its really easy. Once I'm done I can drop a blank DVD into my laptop, and burn it to DVD. I don't think this feature was in XP Professional, which is all I've been using for the past 5 years. -Jay
I also noticed this feature when we first bought our Vista desktop. My dad and I took video footage and will be using this and Nero to edit the movies and add music. Once we get this done, I will be making a short flash intro on our ecotour's website since I am currently in the process of converting (basically making from scratch) our current website to a Flash based website.
Cool, All I can think of now is I remember a joke they did on Family Guy where they were video editing on a computer. I think they said "Star wipe" 30 or 40 times... I looked on YouTube. I couldn't find that clip though... -Jay
I'm confused....Microsoft's website says this is for IT developers and not home users...are they making a SP3 for home users?
