Microsoft announced today another flaw with Internet Explorer version 8 Beta 2.  This is applicable for computers with service pack 3 installed on Windows XP.  If it is installed you will not be able to uninstall IE8 or service pack 3 at a later date.

We continue to advise our customers not to install beta versions of software unless it is on a computer you do not intend to use for mission critical purposes.  Otherwise you might be up for a computer repair.   You can call on us anywhere the the Saint Louis and St. Louis, MO region for computer, PC, and network repair administration service.

Stay away from the service pack 3 for now. There are already numerous posts on the internet regarding problems with the new service pack. Why? People blindly or dangerously performing these tasks early in the release.

It is not uncommon to hear of people experience fatal problems, corruptions, auto reboots, and the blue-screen-of-death. Just patiently wait it out. If you are performing Windows Updates regularly remove the check mark from the SP3 item for installation. If you get the yellow exclamation point in the system tray, ignore it for another month.

In St. Louis and Saint Charles we have already performed three separate incidences of this issue that required computer repair.