XP SP3 Release Candidate

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 19th, 2007, 18:50

Right, the XP SP3RC is available now, it's not final, YMMV etc. etc.

But still, it's 336MB and can be had from Here.

Obviously, if you do decide to play with this, make backups first, system restore point wouldn't be a bad idea.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 19th, 2007, 18:54

I suppose I'd need to upgrade to SP2 as well huh?

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 19th, 2007, 18:54

Don't do it! This is a ms worm to fuck you over and make you get fista! Fight the man and his machine by using XP! Oh, wait... bugger.

In all honesty, I can't see anything wrong with XP, it's taken a VERY long time for that to happen, so why the sp3? Does it have shinies? Will it groom my imaginary miniature horse?

Shada · Post by **Shada** » December 19th, 2007, 18:58

What are the "small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system"?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 19th, 2007, 19:02

Adds some new networking stuff to make everything work a bit happier, along with other odds and sods.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 19th, 2007, 19:04

Hmm, the ms technet forums don't seem to like it much. I'll stick with sp2 methinks.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 19th, 2007, 19:27

2 friends got it, 2 friends had to reinstall XP because of it. 0 out of 2 friends recommend getting *shivers* SP3.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 19th, 2007, 19:30

I have it installed now. no issues yet, not tested gayming yet though.

Post by **deject** » December 19th, 2007, 19:48

Dog Pants wrote:I suppose I'd need to upgrade to SP2 as well huh?

wtf SP2 is pretty much a no brainer...

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 19th, 2007, 19:50

deject wrote:wtf SP2 is pretty much a no brainer...

My XP install CD is at SP2, all is well.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » December 19th, 2007, 20:01

Chances are you're running SP2.9 anyway if you've got Windows Update on.

I'm on Fista RC SP1 at the moment. It's broken a few things and fixed a few others. I'm undecided as yet.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 19th, 2007, 22:05

Stoat wrote:Chances are you're running SP2.9 anyway if you've got Windows Update on.

I haven't since I experienced fixes usually fixing 1 thing and breaking 2.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 19th, 2007, 23:08

Stoat wrote:Chances are you're running SP2.9 anyway if you've got Windows Update on.

I don't.

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 19th, 2007, 23:22

Stoat wrote:Chances are you're running SP2.9 anyway if you've got Windows Update on.

I'm on Fista RC SP1 at the moment. It's broken a few things and fixed a few others. I'm undecided as yet.

o0o, Like what? and where did you get it from?

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » December 19th, 2007, 23:28

TezzRexx wrote:o0o, Like what? and where did you get it from?

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured ... 334147.php

You just download a thing that sets a registry key, then Windows Update does its stuff.

For me it fixed sleep but broke hibernation

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 20th, 2007, 0:02

spoodie wrote:
deject wrote: wtf SP2 is pretty much a no brainer...

My XP install CD is at SP2, all is well.

This. When sp2 was first out it caused a few* problems, but it's all good now.

*may be understatement.