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by wesley.chin

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Looks like MS is making SP3 available to everyone. Why do you think they are doing that? Is it cause MS does not have the man hours internally or MSDN subscribers that are willing to test it?

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by lapg

HI, is there somone who knows how to uninstall Office 2003 Service Pack 3 ? I have problems openning some WK1 files in Excel. I generated this WK1 from a Lode Data Corp. Design Asistant software, and I can not open it with Excel. Other solution could be modify the policy of SP3 but I don?t know how to do it, I tried but I could not change it. Is enough reinstalling Office 2003 without SP3 ? Please your help!

by zlitocook

They have disabled a lot of older Microsoft products because they may be able to infect your computer. And they have disabled alott of other non MS programs for the same resion.
MS has work arounds for some at there website.
It seems that they will stop at nothing to get every one on Vista.
Vista looks alott like ME to me and what MS is doing is making it more so now.
I bet if you down load star office you can open those files and save them to what you need.

by maniacman

I colleague of mine rushed into installing XP SP3 and regrets doing it. It installed new video and LAN drivers, rendering his machine useless because the new drivers were not compatible with the BIOS of his video card and NIC. He had no choice but to boot into safe mode and uninstall SP3. So much for MS and their pathetic attempt in pushing a new "service pack" out. I always warn people to test new patches on a non production machine and read all the blogs and feedback to know what gotchas one will run into with new patches. Some people are just too eager to install new stuff and end up screwing themselves in the process. I always take a very cautious and skeptical approach when it comes to new patches from Microsoft.

by lapg

Hi ManiacMan, I'm not talking about XP SP3, I'm talking about Office 2003 SP3... do you know how to unistall it ?

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