Posted on 04/29/2008 7:43:49 AM PDT by CedarDave
If you didn’t have your calendar marked this day (04/29/2008) is an important day; the third service pack for Windows XP has been released to Windows Update today. It may not be trickling down just yet but several sites have already posted manual updates that can be downloaded.
DailyTech reports that Microsoft hasn’t yet posted an official download for SP3 but BetaNews does have a download link that goes straight back to Windows Update.
Windows XP SP3 is more than just a regular Service Pack including more than 1,100 hotfixes/patches which has new features such as Network Access Protection and Black Hole Router detection.
SP3 will also bring new life into the operating system that so many are unwilling to give up for Windows Vista. Windows XP SP3 is roughly a 316MB download and will be hitting automatic updates later today or if you’re feeling more adventurous, can be manually downloaded right now. At least you won’t have to hunt down a shady source for the update any more.
(Excerpt) Read more at tech.blorge.com ...
Tech PING!
Here is the dirty little secret, they are turning XP into Vista.
Maybe they can patch my MSFT stock so it will stop its flat trend. lol
They also announced an update for Vista. The new update wipes out your drive and installs XP.
Hope it doesn’t make it worse.
You took the thought right out of my head.
Windows XP isn't dead yetMicrosoft has finally released the finished version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to manufacturing. We've been writing about SP3 for nearly six months and speculating about its impact on Vista sales, but this is the real deal!
As Randall C. Kennedy observes in today's Enterprise Desktop, "enterprise IT is fascinated with SP3. ... Microsoft has been putting on the full court press with Vista SP1, yet all they hear from their customers is, 'That’s nice. So when will we see Service Pack 3 for XP?'"
The wait is over. SP3's list of features remains unchanged from the myriad pre-releases: Network Access Protection (NAP); Black Hole Router detection; Wireless Access Protection (WAP) 2 support; new cryptographic APIs; and so on. And "one of the more controversial SP3 features -- a minor (roughly 10 percent) performance boost over XP SP2 -- seems to have survived the RTM process."
Check out the blog, and while you're at it, sign the 'Save XP' petition today!
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/04/windows_xp_isnt.html
bump
DO NOT INSTALL the sP1 for Vista it srews up everything - browsers, email it was a mess. I took it off and now everything is back to normal on my Vista machine.
The good news is that there's only 1,100 fixes.
The bad news is that each fix is a 20MB download.
Almost...
April 27, 2008 | Microsoft to claim Vista downgrades to XP as "Vista sales"
Bookmark
ain’t touching this till there’s some feedback from folks w/sacrificial machines to beta the thing...
Our IT folks say we already have most of the fixes if we have been using Microsoft Update regularly.
Good move. However the SP-1 beta came out around the first of the year and was supposedly debugged. There will always be some machines that will balk at even a "debugged" version.
for later ref.
I tried the SP3 update from MajorGeeks last evening.
It would get about 2/3 of the way through, then error out and uninstall itself. The error was a pop up box that didn’t give much information, except ‘access denied’.
I tried twice. The 2nd time, I shut down every thing I could. It errored out again, with the same ‘access denied’.
Time to turn off your automatic updates then, at least if you rely on your computer for critical things - school, banking, FreeRepublic. Better to wait a few days to let the dust settle and avoid the recall. Isn’t the conventional rule of thumb to never trust the first release of anything from Redmond?
Not a promising sign...
I suspect our contract IT guys will be busy the next few days.
I figured. Just teasing about the 20MB files. :)
Prolly oughta make a sammich or two . . .
maybe it's just me, but has FR been relatively sluggish the past couple days ??
[Error number: 0x80244022]
The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem.
My XP never crashes, which is good enough for me.
I’ll wait.
I’ve been on Vista and SP1 for months now and have no complaints. I am a software engineer by trade and heavy end user ( sorry no gaming BS ) so I cannot quite get the beef. Vista works fine once you turn off the unnecessary overhead junk and learn how to use it.
Yes
I just turned off automatic updates. Given Microsoft’s history of screwing things up the first few tries there is no way I would want this done automatically.
I have Vista, automatic updates and so far no problems since last August.
I didn't know Bill Gates was a Freeper!
LOL..It’s true! I read all the threads, though, because one never knows.
I have my automatic updates set to notify. That way I can choose and control what is downloaded to the machine. More than once I have deleted the selection to download IE7. I just don’t want it since I use Firefox for most everything (some videos won’t load under Firefox, I use IE View to access them).
I have an XP Home SP2 machine in my basement I use as a test bed. I'll be downloading and installing SP3 tonight.
I have to reload an image back on after I messed it up last night but I'll report any major cockups in SP3 here as time goes on.
kewl, thanks Sam !
bttt
All my software is back on now, and things are pretty much humming along nicely. A lot of what SP3 has done is consolidate all the security updates since SP2.
There are a few under the hood changes, but nothing revolutionary in my opinion. Still, it does breathe new life into XP and that's a good things since it's my OS of choice.
Now my next step is installing Vista on my fiancee’s laptop. That may get a little tricky but I need to do it in order to learn to support Vista.
come back here
Where did you get your SP3?
I got one from MajorGeeks.com, but it errors out.
316.44 meg downloading now..........
Since I work as a Windows admin and need to keep my skills up, it a good fit for me.
You can check it out here.
Incidently, I found a $100 coupon off the initial price of $349 from this article, although I think it's only good till May (not sure if that means May 1 or May 31).
Why would you want to do that? You're just going to get her all PO'd at you unless you want to spend more time with her computer than with her!!
Trying to get out of marrying her?
You answered my question above. But using her computer as a guinea pig wouldn't seem like a loving move to me! (grin!)
I downloaded mine from Majorgeeks also after reading your post.
It downloaded, then installed and rebooted, NO PROBLEMS AT ALL!!
Took about 30 mins and here I am. :-)
But funny, its now got a desktop background of Jackie Mason Boinking Pelosi!?!?! Geee.....
Not true, but it installed without a hitch. Piece of cake.
LMAO!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.