XP Service Pack 3 Surfaces After Long Delay

[Guest]

After much teasing, Microsoft’s long-awaited final Windows XP service pack 3 became available on Tuesday via manual download and automatic update.
Microsoft had halted the planned release of Service Pack 3 one week ago when the company discovered that th

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[dj_mikey_qae]

I had 5 computers in my tech shop today that got WindowsXP reinstalls this morning. I noticed that through Windows Update, Microsoft advises the SP3 install. I downloaded the standalone installer direct from Microsoft and installed it on all 5 machines after running Autopatcher. The service pack install went off without a hitch, computer rebooted and I experienced, on all 5 machines (from a 900mhz AMD Duron to a Core2Duo E6300) that XP felt "snappier". I'm going to say that XP SP3 is a must-have, just like Vista SP1.

 

[freiheitner]

If XP did not feel snappier after a clean install, I would say something is wrong. Still, good to hear it went smoothly. I may finally upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP.

 

[dj_mikey_qae]

Of course XP will feel snappier with a reinstall, however installing SP3 made Windows seem to run better than the reinstall with SP2. Basically, my install disc had SP2, I installed SP3 and it helped out even more. Again, a must-have. The SP3 RC2 Refresh made my personal computer go into the BSOD loop that people were reporting, so I just dropped XP and went back to Vista SP1. It's a tradeoff. I'm happier with Vista than I am with XP, but to each their own.

 

[Alextreme]

Uhm... I downloaded SP3 months ago. I don't know what has happened in the meantime, but literally like 3 or 4 months ago i downloaded XP SP3 from the official site, soooooo..?

 

[Christopher1]

[citation][nom]Alextreme[/nom]Uhm... I downloaded SP3 months ago. I don't know what has happened in the meantime, but literally like 3 or 4 months ago i downloaded XP SP3 from the official site, soooooo..?[/citation]

That was the BETA version of SP3, not the final release version.