XP SP3
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Forgot all about the service pack until Windows update reminded me. I have XP on 2 laptops - one is a year old Toshiba, Celeron, 1gb ram the other is a seven year old Gateway, PIII, 256mb with a 20gb hard disk. They both started to download and install within a few minutes of each other. Guess which finished first? Yup, the Gateway. Still a good little machine though I have to keep it plugged in as the battery is long since dead. Have not yet tried either machine to see what SP3 actually does for me but I'll give it a good go tonight. At least it completed on both without any trouble. So far.
Is it available to public via download center? In a quick look I didn't find it.
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Forgot all about the service pack until Windows update reminded me. I have XP on 2 laptops - one is a year old Toshiba, Celeron, 1gb ram the other is a seven year old Gateway, PIII, 256mb with a 20gb hard disk. They both started to download and install within a few minutes of each other. Guess which finished first? Yup, the Gateway. Still a good little machine though I have to keep it plugged in as the battery is long since dead. Have not yet tried either machine to see what SP3 actually does for me but I'll give it a good go tonight. At least it completed on both without any trouble. So far.
A work colleague installed it at home and it decided that his copy of Windows was no longer registered...
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A work colleague installed it at home and it decided that his copy of Windows was no longer registered...
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Busted :) On the plus side, he can get a discounted copy now.
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 3 out nowHang on. Are you saying that if someone pirates XP, then gets busted by 'Genuine Advantage' they get discount! That doesn't sound very fair. I pay full price for my operating systems.
Simon
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A work colleague installed it at home and it decided that his copy of Windows was no longer registered...
I think I'm going to take a disk image then install it in case everything goes pear shaped:~
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Is it available to public via download center? In a quick look I didn't find it.
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}Link to summary is here[^]. From Wikipedia: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) build 5512 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008 and to the public via both the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update on May 6, 2008.[29][30][31] It will be automatically pushed out to users in the early summer.[29] However, due to a compatibility issue with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, Microsoft recommends that SP3 not be applied to systems using Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System until a hotfix is available.[29][30][32] A feature set overview which details new features available separately as standalone updates to Windows XP, as well as features backported from Windows Vista, such as black hole router detection, Network Access Protection, and Windows Imaging Component has been posted by Microsoft.[33] Microsoft is reporting that 1,174 fixes have been packed into SP3.[34] Internet Explorer 7 is not included as part of SP3.[35] Visit windows update, you'll probably have to do a manual download.
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Forgot all about the service pack until Windows update reminded me. I have XP on 2 laptops - one is a year old Toshiba, Celeron, 1gb ram the other is a seven year old Gateway, PIII, 256mb with a 20gb hard disk. They both started to download and install within a few minutes of each other. Guess which finished first? Yup, the Gateway. Still a good little machine though I have to keep it plugged in as the battery is long since dead. Have not yet tried either machine to see what SP3 actually does for me but I'll give it a good go tonight. At least it completed on both without any trouble. So far.
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Link to summary is here[^]. From Wikipedia: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) build 5512 was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008 and to the public via both the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update on May 6, 2008.[29][30][31] It will be automatically pushed out to users in the early summer.[29] However, due to a compatibility issue with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, Microsoft recommends that SP3 not be applied to systems using Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System until a hotfix is available.[29][30][32] A feature set overview which details new features available separately as standalone updates to Windows XP, as well as features backported from Windows Vista, such as black hole router detection, Network Access Protection, and Windows Imaging Component has been posted by Microsoft.[33] Microsoft is reporting that 1,174 fixes have been packed into SP3.[34] Internet Explorer 7 is not included as part of SP3.[35] Visit windows update, you'll probably have to do a manual download.
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I had to go to Windows update. I selected it manually, but it's frozen on "Downloading Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929) (update 1 of 1)..." It doesn't seem to get past that.
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I had to go to Windows update. I selected it manually, but it's frozen on "Downloading Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929) (update 1 of 1)..." It doesn't seem to get past that.
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I had to go to Windows update. I selected it manually, but it's frozen on "Downloading Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929) (update 1 of 1)..." It doesn't seem to get past that.
Yes. I get this too now. First time I tried it failed at some point. Now it's stuck on downloading. Their servers must be under demand.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Yes. I get this too now. First time I tried it failed at some point. Now it's stuck on downloading. Their servers must be under demand.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
It did take quite a while. I left it running on both machines and it did, eventually, complete veen though it looked like nothing was going on.
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It did take quite a while. I left it running on both machines and it did, eventually, complete veen though it looked like nothing was going on.
Failed for the second time while downloading.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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The download progress bar doesn't work. However, at least on my machines it eventually finished. The download is around 70 MBytes or so... takes a while. -- Ian
Eventually it worked. I hate to wait quite awhile, like you said.
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Yes. I get this too now. First time I tried it failed at some point. Now it's stuck on downloading. Their servers must be under demand.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
I left the computer for about an hour and the progress bar appeared. The installation seems to have worked. I am now running SP3. I actually feel XP is a little bit faster now...I could be imagining it, but that's how it seems.
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Hang on. Are you saying that if someone pirates XP, then gets busted by 'Genuine Advantage' they get discount! That doesn't sound very fair. I pay full price for my operating systems.
Simon
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Cheers, Vikram.
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Forgot all about the service pack until Windows update reminded me. I have XP on 2 laptops - one is a year old Toshiba, Celeron, 1gb ram the other is a seven year old Gateway, PIII, 256mb with a 20gb hard disk. They both started to download and install within a few minutes of each other. Guess which finished first? Yup, the Gateway. Still a good little machine though I have to keep it plugged in as the battery is long since dead. Have not yet tried either machine to see what SP3 actually does for me but I'll give it a good go tonight. At least it completed on both without any trouble. So far.
I installed it and it killed my wireless network connection (I got error messages from the wireless software about missing entry points, so it seems I have descended into dll hell). Unless I can get around this problem, I will have to uninstall it.
John Carson
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Forgot all about the service pack until Windows update reminded me. I have XP on 2 laptops - one is a year old Toshiba, Celeron, 1gb ram the other is a seven year old Gateway, PIII, 256mb with a 20gb hard disk. They both started to download and install within a few minutes of each other. Guess which finished first? Yup, the Gateway. Still a good little machine though I have to keep it plugged in as the battery is long since dead. Have not yet tried either machine to see what SP3 actually does for me but I'll give it a good go tonight. At least it completed on both without any trouble. So far.
I had a devil of a time installing it, kept getting "access denied" and the install would abort and rollback to SP2. In the end I was successful. I had to: 1) uninstall Spybot (a malware protection utility that besides other things monitors changes to the registry) 2) uninstall Googleupdater 3) turn off my AVG Resident Shield (my antivirus sw). 4) I had to run the script from this link to reset registry permissions http://blog.malwareteks.com/correct-access-denied-error-while-installing-windows-xp-sp3-release-candidate-2/ Good luck Chuck
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Hang on. Are you saying that if someone pirates XP, then gets busted by 'Genuine Advantage' they get discount! That doesn't sound very fair. I pay full price for my operating systems.
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
Are you saying that if someone pirates XP, then gets busted by 'Genuine Advantage' they get discount! That doesn't sound very fair.
It's only about a 20% discount.
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
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