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XP SP3, Vista SP1 finally arrive

Life in the old dogs yet

By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 12:05 PM

MICROSOFT has finally unleashed Windows XP Service Pack 3 as well us pumping up its delivery of Vista SP1.

The firm put the software on its Windows Update and Download Centre sites, having sorted out a fix for its Microsoft's Dynamics RMS retail management package.

Microsoft told Vnunet it will filter out users that have the Dynamics RMS software installed until a patch can be deployed. µ

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And if you don't want it...

File: donotinstallSPs.adm

Put this into your GPO.


CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY "DO NOT INSTALL SERVICE PACK"

POLICY "Do not auto-install SPs"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

PART "DoNotAllowSP" CHECKBOX
DEFCHECKED
VALUENAME "DoNotAllowSP"
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY
posted by : Stuart Halliday, 07 May 2008

Not too good

Now on my third attempt to get SP3 on my laptop. The update service keeps giving me an error.

Still got the same problem with SP1 on Vista. This stuff used to work all the time. What are they doing??
posted by : jason, 07 February 2008

XP SP3 Fail

Yeah, so I was foolish enough to attemp an install of SP3 on my home PC. It failed during installation, had some strange errors, I rebooted and Windows will not come up (not even in safe mode). Just trying to warn you guys. XP repair install is underway!
posted by : Coma, 08 February 2008

O dear

Just got the friendly little yellow shield from M$ in my tray, decided i should update, o what's this "explorer.exe has generated errors...."

Good ol microsoft! :D
posted by : Minish Man, 08 February 2008

Already Installed

I just created and installed a Slipstreamed copy of my Win XP Pro with SP3. After installing IE7 and scanning for updates I had none to install now them 197 updates I had to disc backed up for future SP2 slipstreams can be deleted lol.
posted by : Dave C, 07 May 2008

SP3 Slipstreaming

Works the same way as SP2 slipstreaming luckily.

I have found one very sticky point for techies using Vista to do the slipstreaming.

If your using a VLK version of XP and slipstream it with SP3 it will not accept your VLK whether its entered from a winnt.sif file or manually.

It must be done from an XP SP2 machine. I don't know if this affects retail or oem versions as I have only tried it with volume media.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3256636&SiteID=17
posted by : Robert, 07 May 2008

SP# Not on WU

It is NOT available on Windows Update (as of 5:30 PM CDT).
posted by : Jerry Rogers, 08 February 2008

Standalone Installer

I downloaded the Standalone Installer for Network Admins/Developers and installed it on my laptop just now. No complaints so far. Not sure how long it took as I had other jobs to do and just left it.
posted by : Lachlan W, 08 February 2008

crap

installed a fresh windows xp, installed sp3, could not install acrobat reader 8 .. removed sp3 .. acrobat installed ..
posted by : Simon, 08 May 2008

SP3 nuked me themes

I SP3-ed an extra PC of mine (new install), and it nuked my 3rd party themes.
I can only pick Luna.
Not even classic works.
posted by : acw, 09 February 2008
IThound
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