Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate Refresh 2

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3311 is out today. It just reminded me of how much I hate restarting my computer. Even with a 1.73 GHz CPU, my computer takes at least 4 minutes just to get ready and boot up. With all of these XP SP3 updates, one of the few times that I reboot, I realized how slow my computer can be. Now I am going through a defrag.

Try a defrag c: -b command and see if that helps.

Any for sure dates on the release of sp3?

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anyone notice if sp3 gets rid of the "click to activate and use this control"?

Wouldn't that be nice. I can't believe there ain't some kind of fix/hack to get rid of it. Most annoying thing ever.

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Wouldn't that be nice. I can't believe there ain't some kind of fix/hack to get rid of it. Most annoying thing ever.

there is gonna be a hotfix released in april (on windowsupdate) to fix this, since they settled a lawsuit ro whatever. but im pretty sure i also read the fix would be in sp3 aswell

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A few posts mentioned this being out by the end of March. Since it's now the middle of the month, can anyone confirm (a source link would be nice) that is still target release date?

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Oh I have another question, regarding the SP3 "cumulative" updates...

My Windows installation disks are about four years old and come with SP1. I have a separate disc with SP2 on it. If I should have to do a fresh install in the future, will I still have to install SP2, and then SP3, or can I just jump from the SP1 install to SP3?

In other words... I want to verify that SP3 does contain all Windows XP updates since the initial release of SP1.

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^ you are wrong. SP3 contains all the updates since Windows XP was released ie it contains SP1 and SP2

System Requirements

* Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

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You can't install from SP1 to SP3 directly (SP2 was a massive update). Either install SP2 then SP3 or slipstream SP2 onto your install disc and then slipstream SP3 on to it as well.

In my virtual machine I've gone from a fresh install of SP1 to SP3 v3300... just now I uninstalled that and its in the process of going directly from SP1 to SP3 5503(RTM?). SP2 was a pretty big update but i believe you could even go straight from XP RTM to SP3 without a problem.

sp1tosp3.jpg

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My Windows installation disks are about four years old and come with SP1. I have a separate disc with SP2 on it. If I should have to do a fresh install in the future, will I still have to install SP2, and then SP3, or can I just jump from the SP1 install to SP3?

In other words... I want to verify that SP3 does contain all Windows XP updates since the initial release of SP1.

SP3 contains all the previous fixes, you don't have to install SP2 first. However I recommend slipstreaming it and burning a brand new XP SP3 install CD. That way you just install Windows and you've got a nice fresh copy of XP SP3 right out of the box.

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theres reports that the rtm/final version has leaked, seen it on a few torrent sites. Anyone confirm?

Hash is

MD5 0f88c125ee4ab608e2744ef3d18a686e

where as RC2 is

MD5 043391FB959D5623BD42EA376452F203

and size for RC2 is

315 MB - 330554920 Bytes

and for final is

file size :315 MB (330,800,680 bytes)

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