Windows Xp Sp3 - High Alert

Unless Microsoft or Fileforum says there is an update, I don't download crap for XP. Why would anyone download a Service Pack that wasn't mentioned on Microsoft's site?

People like that need to give their computers back.

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I used to use SP3 updated from SP2. There's so many bug. and there were program that did't work with SP3 though it used to e work with SP2.

When i see windows secret about SP3 have many bug i downgrade my PC to SP2 again.

How do people get ahold of SP3 anyways? I get my stuff directly from Microsoft, but of course I don't download them right after they're available either. I wait for "the herd" to screw up their PC's(or not screw up) before I take the plunge.

Too many times I see that SP's and/or patches are screwing up programs that worked fine before.

As of the moment, there is already a legitimate SP3 already but just to be on the safe side, look for it on the official windows site since I got mine from the windows update.

I have to agree with you dual, but I used XP and download that 1st SP3 Mistake I know. then I got word of the real one. tried that one and to be honest. Found it to slow my PC down to a crawl. So after a lot of debate I reinstalled everything once again and now only use SP 1 and 2 and it works like a dream. So I feel and it may only be me. but a lot of these packs may just be just that packs. packs of nothing.

From what I read on the white papers for SP3, none of the features or updates are even considerable for Joe Schmoe, the average consumer. A lot of the updates have to deal with networking updates and whatnot... I actually remember talking about how SP3 was unnecessary to just about everyone minus the commercial sector. (I can't remember where my post was, nor can I find it or want to spend the time finding it right now... because I'm lazy.)

So in short, as most of you already know, I recommend to the highest degree to stick to Windows XP Professional SP2 for stability, usability, and yada... and if you have ANY flavor of Linux or Mac OSX 10.x, more power to you all, because those would be the better/equivalent for most people anyway. And of course, as much as I hate Vista and dread what Windows 7 has to offer (since it seems to have a Vista core), if it works for you, great.

I don't get what was the fuss with SP3 when it came out.

Not that I ever upgraded things when I was on Windows XP, with a SP1 back then — but a game didn't want to play and the reason was non-installed SP2. I've seen how SP3 looks on both of my cousins ..cough..pirated...cough.. machines, and switching the keyboard layout doesn't work! When you open up Wordpad or any other thing like that and switch to something other than English, it will come back to English. If you force it in the settings for other language to be active and type something, garbled characters will come out, like you are writing Chinese or something

Also, I hear those who want to play GTAIV on their XP machines, must have SP3 installed

SP3 is working well for me without any problems. Even I had seen a little rise in the performance of my system. My system with SP3 is working little bit faster than SP2, I'm sure about it. All games and softwares I installed are working as usual without any problems.

Yes, they all do work, it's a newer serial pack - ofcourse they will (well unless the programmer is an 1d10t). But I can't get the keyboard locale to change anywhere I go. Can you please try to change (with any language) if you have time as I am unable to test on this computer which runs gnu/linux to see if it'll work?

Thanks