Joyous Day! I got GrandView running on my MacBook

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 13, 2009 at 07:36 AM

Cassius wrote:
>I haven’t installed SP3 because I’ve found
>that a lot of MS updates foul up other software.

Sideline: My own experience with the various Service Packs is the opposite; performance actually has improved after installing SPs on my Windows—which had grown buggy and slow from long term use, as well as installing/uninstalling trial programs (as I tend to do). The Service Packs apparently ‘clear the terrain’ much like a fresh install would do.

This may mean that some settings are not preserved (for example, Outlook seems to again become the default mailing program after any Windows update, no matter what I have changed it to), but I don’t remember software having trouble running after installing any of the SPs, quite the contrary.

In addition, I would strongly advise anyone to install the most recent Windows service packs for security reasons. Unpatched Windows installations can be remarkably vulnerable.