XP SP3 - what's the point?

What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?

Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
Is it mostly just a 'security update'?

Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things it
will do?

G

TaurArian
Mon Mar 24 20:14:00 PDT 2008

You didn't look very hard ....
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/687484ed-8174-496d-8db9-f02b40c12982/Overview%20of%20Windows%20XP%20Service%20Pack%203.pdf


"siriusbliss" wrote:

> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>
> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>
> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things it
> will do?
>
> G
>

Shenan
Mon Mar 24 20:14:50 PDT 2008

siriusbliss wrote:
> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>
> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>
> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things
> it will do?

Now is a great time to point you to one of the easiest ways to find
information on problems you may be having and solutions others have found:

Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

Being a pre-release product - there really is not a direct support
option available. You have a few options, however:

Start here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx

Which can lead you:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=103822

and the forums set up specifically for the pre-release product:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2010&SiteID=17

And of course:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=114f3599-12af-42b2-aab1-b969a62c68a7&DisplayLang=en#filelist

Where you can download it in different languages OR download a script that
sets a registry key on your system so you can get Windows XP SP3 Release
Candidate 2 from the Windows Update web page directly.

I do not recommend installing the pre-release (release candidate 2) on any
machine you are not willing to rebuild from scratch.

Hope that helps!

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MS-MVP
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siriusbliss
Mon Mar 24 23:03:50 PDT 2008

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> siriusbliss wrote:
>> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>>
>> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
>> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>>
>> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things
>> it will do?
>
> Now is a great time to point you to one of the easiest ways to find
> information on problems you may be having and solutions others have found:
>
> Search using Google!
> http://www.google.com/
> (How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )
>
> Being a pre-release product - there really is not a direct support
> option available. You have a few options, however:
>
> Start here:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx
>
> Which can lead you:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=103822
>
> and the forums set up specifically for the pre-release product:
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2010&SiteID=17
>
> And of course:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=114f3599-12af-42b2-aab1-b969a62c68a7&DisplayLang=en#filelist
>
> Where you can download it in different languages OR download a script that
> sets a registry key on your system so you can get Windows XP SP3 Release
> Candidate 2 from the Windows Update web page directly.
>
> I do not recommend installing the pre-release (release candidate 2) on any
> machine you are not willing to rebuild from scratch.
>
> Hope that helps!
>

*****
Alrighty then!

Thanks, I'll check all these out.
Probably won't do the update though, and I hope the updater doesn't keep
bugging me. :)

Greg

John
Tue Mar 25 11:36:36 PDT 2008

Wouldn't it be nice if you can load a PC with WinXP SP3 instead of WinXP SP2
(or worse.. WinXP SP1) + a ton of post SP2 updates? I've been waiting for
SP3 final version so I can slipstream it.

"siriusbliss" <junkdrop1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uWDteNijIHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>
> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>
> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things it will
> do?
>
> G

Alan
Tue Mar 25 18:38:56 PDT 2008

True.

But a user will at least be required to have SP1 or SP2 installed first, in
order to install SP3.

Unless something has changed in the past month or so, SP3 will not install
directly on top of XP 'Gold.'

Alan

"John" <a> wrote in message news:ulw4wcqjIHA.6084@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Wouldn't it be nice if you can load a PC with WinXP SP3 instead of WinXP
> SP2 (or worse.. WinXP SP1) + a ton of post SP2 updates? I've been waiting
> for SP3 final version so I can slipstream it.
>
> "siriusbliss" <junkdrop1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uWDteNijIHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>>
>> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
>> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>>
>> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things it
>> will do?
>>
>> G
>
>

Shenan
Tue Mar 25 18:39:47 PDT 2008

siriusbliss wrote:
> What will SP3 supposedly 'fix' and/or improve?
>
> Will it totally bugger up my important applications?
> Is it mostly just a 'security update'?
>
> Where's the 'master document' that shows what all the nifty things
> it will do?

John wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if you can load a PC with WinXP SP3 instead of
> WinXP SP2 (or worse.. WinXP SP1) + a ton of post SP2 updates? I've
> been waiting for SP3 final version so I can slipstream it.

Been loading my PCs with Windows XP with SP2 + most Post-SP2 updates and
then some other applications by scripting/runonce for years now... SP3
really does little for me in that aspect - as I will still have to add each
post-sp3 update to the installation media each month as I do post-sp2
updates now.

Just like it was for SP2 - the novelty (in the frame of reference given in
this part of the conversation) will wear off in 30 days or less.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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