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by shaun.g 1 view

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In times past, when installing WinNT 4, and the services packs... etc...

Whenever something new was installed, it was recommended to re-install the service packs.

Why did that have to happen? Did it need to happen? And why does the same not apply to Win XP and the service packs?

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by balthor

I never liked the Service Pack idea.Somebody scrambling to make something work or a mad typist.It's probably after the mad typist somebody scrambled.

by tony hopkinson

I bumped into this way way way back when after installing a tape drive on a server.
You did that off the original disks, which of course didn't include the fixes and promptly overwrote the new dlls etc.
Better version control and an increase in modularity for online updates seems to have got rid of these issues.

As we all know though MS still drop the odd ball on this front, at least now it's an exception.

I'm glad those days are gone, hands up who has successfully un-installed a service pack?

Always a nuke and re-install situation that after my first lesson in why gullible is bad.
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by shaun.g

Have to say I did... SP4 on Win NT 4 - I uninstalled it successfully :)

Try uninstalling Norton Antivirus for a laugh... on a critical server, coz the install didnt work... it wasnt me... but I know someone who tried :)

...still WINNT4 and all the SP 2 to 6a :)

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