5punk

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

wtf SP2 is pretty much a no brainer...

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't.

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?

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

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.