Windows XP SP3 Available

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Here the right link

kimsland said:
There's no way to help you, isn't there?

I can't reply to you anymore until you agree it's not Office related, even though the pic shows the totally unrelated Office SP3 update; which has nothing to do with this thread. Anyway if you're like this, then there must be others too.

Now back to Windows SP3 !

Originally Posted by NFSFAN
http://download.windowsupdate.com/m..._c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4.exe
316Meg containing approximately 1100 updates/etc. to Windows Xp

sp3 contains all sp1, sp1a, and sp2 files, so you just need Xp and no Service Pack as minimum requirement. But it will update XPSP2 as well.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en

But I'm waiting for the Automatic Update link
Just in case the above download slightly changes

@dms96960
Yes MS will release an Xp SP3 CD, for mailing (usually free) to you
But this has not been made available yet
I posted some dates earlier in this thread, about release dates, including April 29th on Windows Update, but that has been stopped. So who knows the CD date may have also been moved ahead.
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XP Home SP3, Notice the 80 ?
Your right if you go here.
http://www.microsoft.com:80/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68C48DAD-BC34-4
0BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en

Forum Link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68C48DAD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB

4F56F5110&displaylang=en

Case closed.
 
You posted two links (when I worked out how to put them together!) for:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview

Notice the 80 ?
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This is a port number, what about it?

Anyway,
I can't reply to you anymore until you agree it's not Office related
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Have you accepted this yet?

Otherwise it's ignore time
 
Yes,
but not with the information you supplied.
My link plainly states Windows OS XP SP3.
Please don't post dowload files.Post where it is.
Not this,
Originally Posted by NFSFAN
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...2300ebfde4.exe
316Meg containing approximately 1100 updates/etc. to Windows Xp
You probably had the poor guy with Dial Up thinking it was the update.
 
Directory Listing Denied
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from Microsoft.

Only the exe direct link is obtainable.

My link plainly states Windows OS XP SP3.
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I have posted "Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview" a couple of times already
This is Not the download location

Mind you, I'm still waiting for the Automatic Update site to update, myself.
 
That link only leads to the general Microsoft Update site. Maybe zpperman can fix it. However, although I didn't download it at this time, I can confirm that Windows XP SP3 is now available through Windows Update, at least when I went there.
 
the update.microsoft.com/ is the more general, manual site without the the intrusive Autoupdate

imo, it is still caveat emptor on the viability of SP3, which no SP2 user needs if they
have kept up-to-date on security fixes :)
 
Unfortunately, that site requires 'internet Explorer v5 or later'. I use Firefox and have no inclination to open IE6 just to read another article about this SP.
 
yea that ticks me too :( I'm told that FF can impersonate IE and get around this with
the User Agent string, but have never followed-up on this.

btw: Belarc Advisor will diagnose missing hotfixes and point you directly to the MS-xxx
or KByyyy articles without IE :)
 
Thats right

mailpup said:
That link only leads to the general Microsoft Update site. Maybe zpperman can fix it. However, although I didn't download it at this time, I can confirm that Windows XP SP3 is now available through Windows Update, at least when I went there.
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It's available at Windows update,
Not Microsoft Updates.
My attachment is after my system was scanned for updates.

You have to scan yours for updates.
So do a Windows Update for your PC.It's on the Start Menu.
:)
 

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Addendum: Please be aware that you can only read that link while using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher. You cannot read it with Safari, Opera, Netscape, or Firefox.
 
When it is available from the Microsoft Download Center, I will download it for future installs or reinstalls of XP SP2 or I might order the CD later.

As I recall the CD for SP2 was free at first. Does anyone know if MS will charge for the SP3 CD?
 
re-released (SP3) to the general public.

May 6, 2008 (Computerworld) After a week's delay because of a compatibility bug in the point-of-sale software it sells, Microsoft Corp. today released Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to the general public.

Windows XP users who manually called up Windows Update early Tuesday afternoon, Eastern time, found SP3 waiting. "Windows XP SP3 contains a small number of new updates and should not significantly change the Windows XP experience," the Windows Update message read in part. "After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer."

Microsoft estimated the Windows Update download as approximately 67MB in size.
 
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Windows XP service pack 2 sets the half open TCP connections to 10 and there are patches like "Event ID 4226 Patcher" to change that value..... in the new Service pack 3, is the half open TCP connections also set at 10 or a similar low value? Is there a patch out to change the value? I want to know before i install sp3....

i use torrents...
 
should come directly using update.microsoft.com/ (assuming WGA is active and admin login)
 
Yes he's talking about the maximum 10 connections. And wants 20.
Not sure where the registry entry is. And the program above "Event ID 4226 Patcher" reported as hack tool.
 
i just realised that both XP SP3 final and RTM version (which should be the same) have some incompatibility issues with IE7, Win Inst 3.1, and some microsoft based apps such as WGA.

so here was what happen to me the day before yesterday.
i was using RTM ver of SP3, and i thought the incompatibility issues might disappear if i reformat my system and install it at 1st place.

so i reformat and install SP3.
cannot install IE7, Win Inst 3.1, cant windows / ms update as Win Inst 3.1 and WGA are required. i checked on google and it said that's the incompatibility of SP3.

so i reformat again and install IE7, Win Inst 3.1 and windows update 1st.
then i got the SP3 from the Win Update. seems like it has no difference to the RTM ver i've downloaded from Softpedia.com

so for those who want to have IE7 and W.I.3.1 you should not install SP3 first before them.

anyway it's about 67mb from windows update, but after extraction it expands up to 517MB.

mine stored here :
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\dd9ab5193501484cf5e6884fa1d22f9e

anyone knows more issues SP3 have?
 
Already posted

nismo91 said:
i just realised that both XP SP3 final and RTM version (which should be the same) have some incompatibility issues with IE7, Win Inst 3.1, and some microsoft based apps such as WGA.

so here was what happen to me the day before yesterday.
i was using RTM ver of SP3, and i thought the incompatibility issues might disappear if i reformat my system and install it at 1st place.

so i reformat and install SP3.
cannot install IE7, Win Inst 3.1, cant windows / ms update as Win Inst 3.1 and WGA are required. i checked on google and it said that's the incompatibility of SP3.

so i reformat again and install IE7, Win Inst 3.1 and windows update 1st.
then i got the SP3 from the Win Update. seems like it has no difference to the RTM ver i've downloaded from Softpedia.com

so for those who want to have IE7 and W.I.3.1 you should not install SP3 first before them.

anyway it's about 67mb from windows update, but after extraction it expands up to 517MB.

mine stored here :
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\dd9ab5193501484cf5e6884fa1d22f9e

anyone knows more issues SP3 have?
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When i run Windows update and it scans my computer it is listed.
I read the details and decided it wasn't for me.
So you decide after your scan.
 
It is not for me, neither, but I slipstreamed it with IE7 and WMP11 and installed it on my laptop it works just fine since last week.
 
slipstream

bushwhacker said:
It is not for me, neither, but I slipstreamed it with IE7 and WMP11 and installed it on my laptop it works just fine since last week.
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Could you please explain what slipstreaming is.?
I don't have a Laptop.What improvements are "just fine"?
Have you installed Silverlight ? No problems for me yet with IE7.
SP2.
Northern Ontario is a big place,name the Town,city or farm.:D
 
Another reason for no

Quote Microsoft,
Windows XP SP3 contains a small number of new updates and should not significantly change the Windows XP experience.
 
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