[Frank4d]

I installed XP Pro with SP3 RTL (which was an ISO downloaded from MSDN subscriptions). I loaded it onto an IBM ThinkCentre M51 PC after running DBAN on the drive. It works ok, so nothing new.

[EnfoToad]

When I did it on my Dell Desktop it barely did anything except make it faster and slower on different things.

[Amppy]

Have fun with it ... it will last untill 2009 / Jan.

[AcaCandy]

It breaks other things.

[MikeSwim07]

I have just installed SP3 without any problems. Reboot is a little slower than normal but hopefully that will get better.

[tony oh]

Other than my CPU being 1 degree hotter than before I notice nothing at all.........the good weather may account for the increased temps

[JohnWill]

Tried SP3 on a new computer today, got well into the install and announced "access denied". That's 2 fo 2, I'm getting tired of this "update"!

[help me please]

i had real trouble with this.
after installing, i couldn't install any other updates (i use xp media center 2005) like a remote driver, the LLTD etc. so i removed sp3, only to be greeted by the old style login screen, and a warning that my hardware had "significantly changed since my last activation".
i used this license on an old AMD machine, and this happened once on there. then i used it on this machine for about 4 weeks. whats worse is that it tells me that i "have exceeded the maximum number of activations" or something like that, so i have to call a number (website was useless) and get the robot to give me a number, but it didn't get me to change the product key.

thanks microsoft, for thinking my hardware has changed 5 times.

and my cpu was a lot hotter.

[Amppy]

Originally Posted by help me please

i had real trouble with this.
after installing, i couldn't install any other updates (i use xp media center 2005) like a remote driver, the LLTD etc. so i removed sp3, only to be greeted by the old style login screen, and a warning that my hardware had "significantly changed since my last activation".
i used this license on an old AMD machine, and this happened once on there. then i used it on this machine for about 4 weeks. whats worse is that it tells me that i "have exceeded the maximum number of activations" or something like that, so i have to call a number (website was useless) and get the robot to give me a number, but it didn't get me to change the product key.

thanks microsoft, for thinking my hardware has changed 5 times.

and my cpu was a lot hotter.

Some people are telling you are going to need this download offered. Someone please tell or better yet give the url for this information about SP3 needed please.

Read the white paper on it ... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...isplaylang=en:

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by Amppy

Some people are telling you are going to need this download offered. Someone please tell or better yet give the url for this information about SP3 needed please.

Sure. Here is a link:

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107859

Here is the opening paragraph:

Microsoft plans to offer free patches for vulnerabilities it classes as security critical for Windows XP until at least 2014. The snag – as for all Microsoft products – this only applies where the latest Service Pack is installed. In this case this means SP3, which should be the last Service Pack for XP. Users still using an older Service Pack will no longer have access to support. Support for SP1 has already been withdrawn.

I read that to mean, "if you want to stick with Windows XP and continue to get updates until 2014, you will need to migrate to SP3, at some point".

That article was first posted on this forum in this thread.

Peace...

[Frank4d]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

Tried SP3 on a new computer today, got well into the install and announced "access denied". That's 2 fo 2, I'm getting tired of this "update"!

I wonder if the problem is similar to the registry key permissions issue some computers had with SP2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148

[AcaCandy]

I see Technet now has it for download.

I was working on a Spanish version Windows a couple of days ago, and it showed as an available update I didn't want to go there.

[Amppy]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Sure. Here is a link:

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107859

Here is the opening paragraph:

I read that to mean, "if you want to stick with Windows XP and continue to get updates until 2014, you will need to migrate to SP3, at some point".

That article was first posted on this forum in this thread.

Peace...

Service Pack 3 is not installed on my computers but i have recieved an automatic update from Windows Sercurity Center yesterday morning and will untill the lifecyle runs out for Windows XP product plain and simple.

I believe you have misunderstood the point of this article. If you read my posting under that posting you will get a better understanding of what Microsoft has done. As well i'm sure you know that article was not an official release from Microsoft, but does give you an idea of what has happened with the extention of time.

Peace ....

[Amppy]

Originally Posted by Frank4d

I wonder if the problem is similar to the registry key permissions issue some computers had with SP2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148

You have it BANG ON ... i need to get my notes out and i will give you all the answer to why people have problems installing Service Pack 3. I was waiting for someone to figure it out before i wanted to say anything for sure and may still ... Hmm dinner is about to be served so for now it can wait. Gee's we have 24 month's left people ...

[Socrates Johnson]

I have successfully installed SP3 on 3 of my machines, two intel and one AMD. Today I installed it on my aunt's computer Hewlett Packard AMD machine, and it has a constant reboot. Keeps looping, apparently this is a problem with Hewlett packard/Emachine computers with AMD chips. The short answer I read was that at the factory they use an intel based image when installing XP on AMD machines this causes a conflict. As of May 15th today, Microsoft doesn't have a fix for it. There is info about how to prevent this from happening, one of Microsoft's former security managers had posted a script file that checks and fixes the conflict pre-SP3 install. However if it happens that you have already installed it and got the Reboot bug...ah I mean feature, the only way I've found is to uninstall the service pack through the recovery console. I haven't tried this yet so I'm hoping it will work. All my other machines that I own work great. Seems to be an isolated thing with HP machines with AMD processors.