Tecknomage
Thu Mar 27 03:57:34 PDT 2008
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:25:01 -0700, selsrog
<selsrog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> i installed SP3 RC2 (release candidate) on my laptop.
> here are the problems I encountered with this update.
> the regional keyboard settings are accessed differentely from softwares. I
> have omnitracker client installed and my nummeric input react differently
> with sp2 or SP3 RC2.
> windows live messenger version2008 (build 8.5.1302.1018) gives following
> error with SP3 RC2:
> eventid 11706 source: msiInstaller
> description; error 1706. An installation package for the product WLM cannot
> be found. try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation
> package 'install_wlmessenger(1).msi'
>
> when I uninstalled SP3 everything was working fine again.
Before you downloaded SP3 RC2 did you read all the download page.
RC = Beta IMHO, also there is a note that the real release (non-RC) of
SP3 will be through the normal Win Updates.
RC's exist because there are bugs to be worked out.
See posts the MS TechNet SP3 forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2010&SiteID=17
You can download a road-map PDF from below link to see what SP3 will
do when it is finally ready:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en
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======== Tecknomage ========
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San Diego, CA