Re: Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain

In article <I8udnY_qXPB6RrrVnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Steve de
Mena <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > It (SP3 installer) should have done the right thing during the
installation.
> 
> Maybe it installs updated file(s) provided by HP that are no longer 
> compatible if running at the same time.  There is no way to know what 
> the scenario is or where to place blame.

That's certainly a fair statement.
HP might have been trying to play an efficiency game, copying two
libraries into their general image. That would be their mistake, and I
would hope they would learn that having two images for the different
processors is not such a big extra step to make sure they work properly
later.