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XP Service Pack 3

I heard it was going to come out sometime, but now Microsoft seems to have gotten sidetracked by Vista and Vienna. Are they actually working on it?

~Jordan
 
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I've been hearing about a "supposed" SP3 for the longest time with none in sight. If and when that comes out it would include IE 7 already available for immediate download. There won't be a DX9d to add to the list with Vista out at this time. If it does finally come out it would most likely be later in the year or at the beginning of 2008. Until then we wait and wait and....
 
PC eye said:
I've been hearing about a "supposed" SP3 for the longest time with none in sight. If and when that comes out it would include IE 7 already available for immediate download. There won't be a DX9d to add to the list with Vista out at this time. If it does finally come out it would most likely be later in the year or at the beginning of 2008. Until then we wait and wait and....
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Just like we did for Vista. :rolleyes:
 
Vista is supposed the version without any large SPs coming out sometime later. The information on that is more regular small updates released on mondays when those come out for security fixes and Windows Defender updates. Thrills on the WD there. That was crap when previously tried out on XP. That's one reason for choosing the custom rather then express update method when at MS to keep those for WD and WMP 11 from installing on the XP installs here. I'm stuck with 11 on Vista.
 
PC eye said:
Vista is supposed the version without any large SPs coming out sometime later. The information on that is more regular small updates released on mondays when those come out for security fixes and Windows Defender updates. Thrills on the WD there. That was crap when previously tried out on XP. That's one reason for choosing the custom rather then express update method when at MS to keep those for WD and WMP 11 from installing on the XP installs here. I'm stuck with 11 on Vista.
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I hate WD! It just doesn't seem to do anything right. :rolleyes:

~Jordan
 
That was an annoyance soon removed when the first release was in XP form then and saw a disappointment when spotted in Vista later. It's simply a gimic MS added into Vista to increase sales of the new version there.

Besides paying retail for softwares like Trend Micro's combination rolled into their own antivirus software you can find "better" freewares by simply looking at programs like AVG, Avast, AntiVir, Ad-Aware, Spyware Terminator, Spybot S&D, and a few others. Just like the MS Anti-Spyware Remover that was out some time back it's a loser!
 
PC eye said:
That was an annoyance soon removed when the first release was in XP form then and saw a disappointment when spotted in Vista later. It's simply a gimic MS added into Vista to increase sales of the new version there.

Besides paying retail for softwares like Trend Micro's combination rolled into their own antivirus software you can find "better" freewares by simply looking at programs like AVG, Avast, AntiVir, Ad-Aware, Spyware Terminator, Spybot S&D, and a few others. Just like the MS Anti-Spyware Remover that was out some time back it's a loser!
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Yeah, My favorite spyware app is Spybot and I prefer AVG for Antivirus. I just decided that I needed spyware protection after I lost my files to spyware. :rolleyes:

~Jordan
 
AVG is a great one for pointing things out while not always able to immediately remove them. With it on the totally disabled list at time it suddenly came to life out of nowhere upon reaching an unknown site during a search when a trojan was copied to the hard drive. It immeidiately ecognised the coding of the malware itself. That happened before the finished version of IE 7 was available sometime last year.

But I've also let viruses attached to unknown emails run to see where they hid themselves and what files were effected. I simply removed them by manually overwriting any infected system files by expanding fresh copies off of the XP install disk or deleted any others found infected. No tool is ever 100% however. Sometimes you need a specific removal tool for some new type of bug floating around. Getting familiar with how well different ones work does help.
 
PC eye said:
AVG is a great one for pointing things out while not always able to immediately remove them. With it on the totally disabled list at time it suddenly came to life out of nowhere upon reaching an unknown site during a search when a trojan was copied to the hard drive. It immeidiately ecognised the coding of the malware itself. That happened before the finished version of IE 7 was available sometime last year.

But I've also let viruses attached to unknown emails run to see where they hid themselves and what files were effected. I simply removed them by manually overwriting any infected system files by expanding fresh copies off of the XP install disk or deleted any others found infected. No tool is ever 100% however. Sometimes you need a specific removal tool for some new type of bug floating around. Getting familiar with how well different ones work does help.
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True, I never actually used AVG for removing a virus. :)
 
JordanII said:
I heard it was going to come out sometime, but now Microsoft seems to have gotten sidetracked by Vista and Vienna. Are they actually working on it?

~Jordan
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Well I heard that since they took out so much in Vista when it was released that the SP3 they had for XP damn near made it like Vista so the are making a striped down SP3 before it is released
 
StrangleHold said:
Well I heard that since they took out so much in Vista when it was released that the SP3 they had for XP damn near made it like Vista so the are making a striped down SP3 before it is released
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Actually that was stated about XP's own SP2 when released back in 2004.

"Windows XP Service Pack (SP 3), which Microsoft officials said in January to expect in the latter half of 2007, now has slipped into 2008.
Microsoft delivered the last service pack update for XP, Windows XP SP2 (which was actually more of a whole new version of Windows than it was a typical service pack) in August of 2004."

Apparently there are some plans for SP3 originally scheduled for the fall of this year but pushed back to 2008 since MS is currently too busy with Vista at the moment.

Update: Microsoft provided the following statement late on October 19, regarding the timing of XP SP3:
"As we have previously confirmed, we will be releasing another service pack for XP over the course of the (XP) product lifecycle. We are now tentatively targeting the first half of 2008 forrelease. Right now our priority is Windows Vista — we'll have more information to share about the next service pack for XP after Windows Vista ships." http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=54
 
PC eye said:
Actually that was stated about XP's own SP2 when released back in 2004.

Microsoft delivered the last service pack update for XP, Windows XP SP2 (which was actually more of a whole new version of Windows than it was a typical service pack) in August of 2004."
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Thats a bunch of bull, SP2 was just adding the security center,firewall to home,security updates and a bunch of drivers that caused alot of trouble at first.
 
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You'll have to take that up with the author there about that. But in a good number of ways SP2 made a big difference when getting it installed on an SP1 or better non SP1 system. WHen buying a new copy of XP with SP2 included the earlier XP installers saw it as a newer version. The installer on an XP SP1 recovery disk couldn't remove a primary created by a full version SP2 disk in that regard.
 
You can take it up with him, you need to not believe everything you read on google.
 
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Who said it looked different? Where did you see me say it didnt have fixes and updates, plus it sure wasnt near a new OS at all!
 
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StrangleHold said:
Do you use Yahoo now.
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I've never limited myself to "just one" search engine like some apparently have. Plus I always "uncheck" the option to install the Google toolbar seen included with various softwares. Those love to leave openings for adwares.

JordanII said:
Sure, it doesn't look different, but it does have a lot of fixes and updates.

~Jordan
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The most likely description there was how Windows ran after SP2 was installed. When first running an SP1 install disk here the site found for download and backup of the full 266mb redistrutable SP2 made life easier then constantly going back to the MS update page for that when having to reinstall here or simply having SP2 backed up cd when someone else tossed Windows on their machine. XP runs more stable with it however due to the needed fixes and patches that includes.
 
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