XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 via Windows Update

[CoolCatBad]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

This is a small script to run on your XP SP2 machine that will allow for SP3 to be available through Windows Update.

Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key. Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta.

[Bizkit]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

This is a small script to run on your XP SP2 machine that will allow for SP3 to be available through Windows Update.

Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key. Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta.

Thanks for the info man, downloading now. I wanted to try this out, see how it runs.

[simmorya]

Is this RC2 Refresh or just the RC2?

[Twisted Chaz]

Any news on the final release of this?

[JohnBfromMemphis]

I fired up VMWare 6 using XP SP2 and that .bat file isn't working I even tried manually typing the reg del and the reg add lines and still didn't get it in Windows Update. Is it because I'm running XP SP2 in a virtual machine? There is no sense in partitioning my hard drive just to see if this works or not.

[=NickJ=]

If I install this, what are the chances of me being able to upgrade to SP3 final when its released?

[rpgfan]

I fired up VMWare 6 using XP SP2 and that .bat file isn't working I even tried manually typing the reg del and the reg add lines and still didn't get it in Windows Update. Is it because I'm running XP SP2 in a virtual machine? There is no sense in partitioning my hard drive just to see if this works or not.

Are you sure you don't have any other XP SP3 pre-releases installed in addition to SP2? I had that problem (I had the 3300 build), and I didn't realize that the original post said to remove any XP SP3 releases prior to RC2.

You might try a fresh install of XP SP2 in your VM as well. Other than that, I have no idea what else you could do to solve this. It wouldn't make sense to say that a certain hotfix is a prerequisite of XP SP3 RC2 because it is supposed to be a rollup of all the hotfixes, right? Maybe a certain version of the .NET framework is required or something?

If I install this, what are the chances of me being able to upgrade to SP3 final when its released?

The chances are most likely high if you aren't referring to doing a straight upgrade from RC2 to Final. If you want to do that, I'd say the chances aren't as good. If it is anything like the other pre-releases, you might require an uninstallation of RC2 before upgrading to Final. :/

[RadishTM Veteran]

I'll wait for the final build.

Radish?

[Jack 0Neill]

I fired up VMWare 6 using XP SP2 and that .bat file isn't working I even tried manually typing the reg del and the reg add lines and still didn't get it in Windows Update. Is it because I'm running XP SP2 in a virtual machine? There is no sense in partitioning my hard drive just to see if this works or not.

Happened to me too. Clean install at that.

[JohnBfromMemphis]

Happened to me too. Clean install at that.

I got it to work just had to delete the VM from disk and start over with another fresh VM install.

[Hum]

I was able to download directly from Microsoft, without any special registry changes.

Did not enjoy uninstalling SP3 RC1.

Was a scary moment when SP3 RC2 just stopped for a few minutes, but finally finished. :huh:

I hope this has fewer glitches than RC1.

I noticed RC2 is about 22 megs smaller than RC1 ... wonder why.

There was a noticable faster boot-up time, after RC2 was finished installing.