Hillman

I’m sure your machine will be perfectly alright and you experienced a little hiccough.

However, if IE7 is playing up and you installed SP3 without uninstalling IE7 first, there is no return to IE6. The situation is a tad more dire if a beta version of IE8 was present when SP3 was installed.

If, in the future, you want to reinstall XP, bear in mind that SP3 doesn’t include IE7.

Read this http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/8/cd8cc719-7d5a-40d3-a802-e4057aa8c631/relnotes.htm