gshaikh Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 I been installing XP SP 3 on the machines around the school there is one more to go and having a problem to install it.. i have tryed to re-install it few times aswell but no luck.. the screenshot is below if anyone can help me out here..
matt40k Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Looks like a corrupt install package, have you tried (re)downloaded the redistrubtion SP3 from microsoft.com/downloads? Might be an issue with how it's extracted (normally %temp%) could be AV I guess.
matt40k Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 got enough disk space? Though it checks this before installing... wait... just remember who made it.
penfold_99 Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 one issue i found with sp3 is that if you wrote a vb script that got the date it returned it in American format and not how the regional/locale state it should be.
srochford Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Try to find the file tip.htm on the machine (should be in c:\windows\web); check to see if it's read-only or has weird permissions. You can probably delete it - it will be replaced by the SP when it installs. @penfold_99 - have you seen MS KB 951978 - this seems to have a fix for your problem. 1
matt40k Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 It may just be one of those imaginary things (like washing your car makes it drive better!) but I've found machines to run faster if you do a fresh install with SP3 already integrated, rather than adding SP3 to an SP2 build. I worked with someone who used to install Windows XP the put SP1 on then SP2, when I said why don't you "build" an XP SP2 CD then install using that, he replied, it seems a bit... dodgy. Personally I don't like wasting my time replace files when you could just install a new one and save a LOAD of time. Still this only works on new builds. Reinstalling can be a bad idea if you haven't plan a quick way of doing it, especially when you'll looking at a room or even a school full!!
Michael Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 I worked with someone who used to install Windows XP the put SP1 on then SP2, when I said why don't you "build" an XP SP2 CD then install using that, he replied, it seems a bit... dodgy. Personally I don't like wasting my time replace files when you could just install a new one and save a LOAD of time. They've never heard of slipstreaming then? Gibbo's right, it does give better results.
matt40k Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 No they have, they've never trusted it. Was funny really, they were (are) always getting spam\spyware\trojan\virus as well! Because I can -->
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