do I really need to update service pack for hoster 4.0

[ddouglass]

Skybird that was Bryant you quoted....not me
Any way, you can study all the posts and think you know how to solve any problems that come up, decide it is time to load the new program and still come up with some problem that is brand new or one of the solutions that won't work on yours.
Computers these days are so diverse and we have so many optional ways we (the users) can change them that it is impossible to say that a program is going to install without problems on all computers. I worked at Lackland AFB in a technical school for a number of years before I retired. We had several thousand computers in the classrooms there. When we would set up a classroom all the computers were the same brand and model with exactly the same hardware configuration. Yet when we would loaded the software there would always be at least a couple that would give us problems and not install correctly. It was like they each took on a separate personality.
The only way you are going to know if you have a problem with it is to install it and see. At least MTU listened to us and included the earlier version so you can fall back and use that if something goes wrong. I have just finished a weekend of shows and both nights had to revert to 3.4 sometime during the night.

[Skybird74]

Yes, I do understand what you mean about computers seeming to take on a "personality" of their own! I wonder if the Programmers understand them better than us Users I still feel that I will have less problems to deal with once I know how to fix all the "common" problems!

[billyo]

i am sticking to 3.317 inspite of 4.0 great features due to sp3 problems, just got done reading about it again ( pc world ) and i found out that over 50% of those who downloaded sp3 had the blue screen and 73% still has unresolved problems...

[Skybird74]

Billyo - You really should at least upgrade to 3.321. That was out months ago with a multitude of fixes. That's the latest out while everyone was waiting for 4.0.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

Billyo - You really should at least upgrade to 3.321. That was out months ago with a multitude of fixes. That's the latest out while everyone was waiting for 4.0.

you know i should, maybe after i do my show this weekend..i realy wanted 4.0 i too was eagerly waiting for it, till i got the sp3 issues..

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

i am sticking to 3.317 inspite of 4.0 great features due to sp3 problems, just got done reading about it again ( pc world ) and i found out that over 50% of those who downloaded sp3 had the blue screen and 73% still has unresolved problems...

That's 50% of those who reported it to PC World. Not 50% who installed. This is not an accurate figure.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

That's 50% of those who reported it to PC World. Not 50% who installed. This is not an accurate figure.

sorry i must have read it or misunderstood it,for the sake of convesation why would they report it if they didnt experienced it ? but anyway i was just reading Laddies " no lyrics and script error " thread and she said " she went back to sp2 reloaded ie7 and everything worked fine "

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by billyo

sorry i must have read it or misunderstood it,for the sake of convesation why would they report it if they didnt experienced it ?...

Human nature. When something works well you rarely mention it to anyone. When something doesn,t work well you tend to tell everyone.

These forums are a good example. On here, there are maybe 20 people at any one time with an issue, leading an observer to believe there are lots of problems, trouble is there are many thousands of users with no problems who never post that in the forums, so you don't get a balanced view of things as they are.

Sort of like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease", if you don't squeak, you don't get noticed.

Sam

[billyo]

[quote=mindonstrike;77481]Human nature. When something works well you rarely mention it to anyone. When something doesn,t work well you tend to tell everyone.

These forums are a good example. On here, there are maybe 20 people at any one time with an issue, leading an observer to believe there are lots of problems, trouble is there are many thousands of users with no problems who never post that in the forums, so you don't get a balanced view of things as they are.

Sort of like "the squeaky wheel gets the grease", if you don't squeak, you don't get noticed.

Sam[/quote

oh well, thats human nature..sort of

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

sorry i must have read it or misunderstood it,for the sake of convesation why would they report it if they didnt experienced it ? but anyway i was just reading Laddies " no lyrics and script error " thread and she said " she went back to sp2 reloaded ie7 and everything worked fine "

She reformated and re-loaded XP SP2. Installed IE7 and is going to install SP3. If SP3 had been causing her problem with the script error then we would all have it.
Please do not put partial facts out to try to scare people away from a necessary update to their computers just because you had a problem with it. The same things were said when SP2 came out. Any major upgrade like this is going to cause problems for a few people who will eventually get it fixed and working.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

She reformated and re-loaded XP SP2. Installed IE7 and is going to install SP3. If SP3 had been causing her problem with the script error then we would all have it.
Please do not put partial facts out to try to scare people away from a necessary update to their computers just because you had a problem with it. The same things were said when SP2 came out. Any major upgrade like this is going to cause problems for a few people who will eventually get it fixed and working.

like i said " it's not my intetion to scare people " and like what you told me " on thread " do i really need sp3 " post #7 ( i ) they can do whatever they want " i am just being cautious, and i am not the only one that had this problem , alot of people has from what i read from microsoft forum..so please again that is not my intention, i didnt mean to caused any problems, just looking for solution..