Re: Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain

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Edwin <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> My computer would only boot into safe mode after I installed SP3.   It
> only took a few minutes with Google to find and apply the solution:

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> "If you booted into safe mode you can run "sc config intelppm start=
> disabled""
> 
> The above line is all it took to fix the problem for me.

Oh, that's all?

A few minutes of searching, probably several suggestions that do not
help (or make it worse!), finding the one article that helps, then
doing what that says?
No big deal, right?
How can anyone complain about something so small?

IT WAS AN OS PATCH -- it needs to work for everyone, every time,
faultlessly. Every other perspective is making a compromise.