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    Final SP3 on microsoft website

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by richarddd, Apr 28, 2008.

  1. richarddd

    richarddd Notebook Consultant

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  2. GoodToGo

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    Anyone verified this yet?
     
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  3. richarddd

    richarddd Notebook Consultant

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    download.windowsupdate.com is a Microsoft website (check whois) and the installer license agreement page does not say it's test software (compare prior versions), but Microsoft may just be playing with us for its own nefarious purposes. YMMV.
     
    richarddd, Apr 28, 2008
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  4. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    link is broken...
     
    Xirurg, Apr 28, 2008
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    Link works for me....
     
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  6. Xirurg

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    hmmm....strange....
     
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    Confirmation please link does work for me (try right click save as for those that it appears broken)
     
    X2P, Apr 28, 2008
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  8. timtravel42

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    nice...
    can anyone verify this?
     
    timtravel42, Apr 28, 2008
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    Confirmed. :)

    This is the exact one that I got last week.

    Windows XP SP3 RTM 5512 (SP3 FINAL)

    FILE: WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
    SIZE: 331,805,736 bytes in 1 file .... (windows will see 316.4MB)
    MD5: BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58
    SHA1: C81472F7EEEA2ECA421E116CD4C03E2300EBFDE4
    Verified: Signed Signing date: 06:30 14.04.2008
     
    Gophn, Apr 28, 2008
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  10. timtravel42

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    Thanks for the confirmation!!! :D

    +rep to Gophn
    +rep to OP
     
    timtravel42, Apr 28, 2008
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  11. Mr. Wonderful

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    Downloading! Thanks!

    Edit: Installed fine on my 2002 Compaq computer, though I lost my task bar theme that I had installed.

    Blue-screened my 2006 Media Center Edition HP machine. Note that this computer has had problems with compatibility many times before this case. Previously, we had the screen freeze up and fill with garbage every five minutes or so. It turned out being the wireless adapter we had added on, after months of trouble.
     
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  12. timtravel42

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    what did the bluescreen say?
     
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    WOW Downloaded at 50MB/s and began to rise amazing server!
     
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  14. Mr. Wonderful

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    Didn't get the chance to read it. The service pack installed, I restarted Windows, it would get to the black Windows boot screen for a couple of seconds, flash a blue screen, then start all over again, this time with the "Windows Failed to Start Normally" message. Restoring to today's restore point in safe mode fixed the problem.
     
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    I noticed that SP3 installed pretty quickly, a much different experience than SP1 on Vista.........
     
    R4000, Apr 28, 2008
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    >.< downloaded it but refuse to install ... someone fix up UXtheme patcher!!!
     
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  17. Gophn

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    look at the minidump file... it will tell you what causing the BSODs
     
    Gophn, Apr 28, 2008
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  18. DTrump

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    Yep, mine installed in about 10 minutes. I thought something had gone wrong, initially, but it finished successfully.

    Should be noted, however, that my XP partition is rarely used, so there is only the OS and a couple of utilities installed. May have had something to do with how fast the SP installed...not all junked up with apps.
     
    DTrump, Apr 29, 2008
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  19. Jason-Alaska

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    I had to reformat about two months ago and SP3 was the very first critical update found. I D/L'ed it then and have had no problems with it. ;)

    On a new install of XP the SP3 is a LONG process. Took over an hour if I recall correctly.
     
    Jason-Alaska, Apr 29, 2008
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    Remember that SP3 is mostly a rollup of all existing updates, with a few compatibility updates thrown in. On a new install this would include any service pack updates not already in place, and every update since SP2.

    SP1 for Vista contained a very large number of new updates. That is the main reason it took longer.
     
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    How do I do that?
     
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  22. Gophn

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    google: analyze minidump
     
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  23. jedisolo

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    It installed fine on my NC8430 and T61.
     
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    Blisteringly fast! My vaio, of course, just poked along, and kept dropping wireless, so I finally had to plug it into the router. Wife's _HP, however, d/l'd in 3min 26sec and wireless was pegged at 1.01MB/s the whole time.
     
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    amazing server. just downloaded the file. wireless connection, downloading speed at 110Mbps the whole time. now installing the SP3......
     
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  26. Phillip

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    OK, Im not finding any official comsumer versions of SP3, just the testers versions (RC1, RC2 and so on)
    is SP3 in fact released to the public as a update offered by a place like windows update at microsoft.com yet?

    if it is indeed released, where can I find it?
     
    Phillip, Apr 30, 2008
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    Just installed. I only notice one different thing in run and in the config. It as the extra setting "toosl" Other than that i didn't notice anything new on sp3
     
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  28. Shyster1

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    It was released to web momentarily, and then withdrawn because of a problem with an MS package called Dynamics Retail Management System - which is a complete point-of-sale (POS) solution that can be adapted to meet unique retail requirements for small and mid-size retailers - so MS decided to yank SP3 until they could put filters on the servers and update system so that systems running DRMS wouldn't d/l and install SP3 until such time as MS gets a fix put in, according to Chris Keroack of MS.

    According to the consensus of those who should know, the d/l link in the first post of this thread is the "real thing" - minus the DRMS fix, of course - and at least as of midnight US eastern standard time last night it was working (that's when I d/l'd it; boy was that a fast d/l! :D ).
     
    Shyster1, Apr 30, 2008
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