
Reboot the PC > SP3 installation will recover and finish, ignore any errors or warnings just let it boot up and you will be at SP3, at this point finish the good work by going to windows update and getting all the post SP3 updates. On the applications tab > Select the Software Update Installation Wizard > Click End Task > Accept any warnings etc.ģ. Right click your task bar and select “Task Manager”.Ģ. Ive never personally seen any adverse effects from doing this and I’ve rolled out a few thousand service packs.ġ. Update 05/04/11: Before continuing please read the feedback below.

This might scare you, but you need to kill the update, don’t panic at this stage SP3 is already on.


Then on a visit to a client yesterday I saw it on both machines I was working on. Saw this a while ago, and just thought it was a “One Off”.
