service pack 3 for winXP

Hi there!

I saw that XP SP 3 is now available and i was wondering if it's worth installing performance-wise.


Has anyone seen any improvements over SP2?

thank you

do you have the link for sp3? i tried to find it on microsoft.com this morning but i can't find it.

/tinfoilhat

"People who see grand conspiracies everywhere they look have watched too many Oliver Stone movies" - Me


Fact: XP SP2 *AND* SP3 both work fine. The odd device driver may puke. But guys - This is *Windows* we're talking about. It's a law of nature: Rocks are hard. Water is Wet. And Drivers Puke Sometimes.

Fact: XP is, and will remain, perfectly viable until after Win 7 is released. There is absolutely nothing preventing you from reinstalling from your OEM/Retail discs when you change/update your computer. Of course, this does make the presumption that people are smart enough to buy their own discs. Advice: Buy one with SP3. Put it in a drawer and keep it in case you need it. Cheap insurance.

Fact: Bug Fixes and Security updates from Microsoft are NOT ENDING. Only that the OS won't be sold in retail stores after June/July, and there will be no more service packs.

Fact: Service contracts are handled by outside companies. MSFT themselves are not in the business of tending their user's systems.

Fact: If you are a Business customer/user of XP, you have a service contract anyhow. Irregardless of the actual status of a given operating system, the vendor(s) you have your service contract with and your own IT staff are the one's performing the actual support function. Witness Win2K installations which are still active.

Fact: Most of the people b*tching on the boards here about XP's "support" ending are end user consumers who don't get any support anyhow. Quite simply: The whining and crying and carrying on is about something these people NEVER HAD in the first place.


So where's the conspiracy??



Therefore: /tinfoilhat

My tin foil hat is made of crushed beer cans thank you for asking
anyhow

Waiting a few weeks to see what it does or does not do is not actually making a conspiricy charge. MS is being forced, grasping and clawing, to keep XP going a little bit, you deny this? Wouldn't it be great to make XP work like ME from MS point of view?

meow!

O WOW look at this Scotteq and you other Bill Gate head Zombies,

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/window [...] -1190.html

Get a quote to say how I was right now.. how pathetic!!!!!!

Here's one: "Microsoft warned those running Microsoft Dynamics RMS to not install Windows XP SP3 or Vista SP1."

Yeah that makes sense Microsoft is going to screw up XP and Vista so people will buy Vista?

SP3 isnt officially available yet is it?

yeah microsoft website said 29th april but i don't see it anywhere. never on time. maybe they will put it up there at 29th april 11.59 PM...lol

Cool.Thanks.

SP3 is not available... only build 5512... which happens to be a release candidate.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929

http://download.windowsupdate.com/ [...] ebfde4.exe

this is the direct link for the xp sp3 not RC1 or RC2 it is for 32 bit xp

True, only today they stated that they are going to delay it even longer, so in reality i would call sp3, sp3.1 cause they forgot to include a couple of things in the release to technet subscribers. Although the one released to technet subscribers was in fact the one they were going to release to the public. I have installed RC1, RC2, and this one and i really havnt noticed a difference in them vs sp2. Thats just my opinion though.

That would be nice, in and of itself, as 100 critical updates to a fresh SP2 install is a bit much...

I'm sticking wiff 3311 seems to be working good, I like the security features of packet loading/sending. Also I noticed sp2 with a floppy drive, I could use format/copysystem files. Xpsp3c2 that had change to make boot disk. the problem now is it creates a xp boot disk and when I tried a bios flash I had a promp saying cannot flash in windows. Before I did not get this. I was able to use windows flash, but not dos flash created by xpsp3 c2 and before I was able too flash with a dos flash program from xpsp2 format copysystem files.

Wow. Thank you for proving just how small my penis is. I'm not sure I've ever been served on a message forum by a person who prefaces his arguments with "FACT."

Dwight Schrute?



You don't have to be the mecca of defense for XP. So people have questions and concerns. Big deal.

See:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscen [...] p_sp3.html

You can download SP3 from Microsoft's download site or wait until June 10 when it will be pushed out via automatic update. SP3 for XP-64 will not be released until later as it's not finished yet and and it's code base is based on Windows server 2003, not XP.