service pack 3???

Stiffler69

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i found this on some softpedia.com website its not a warez site or anything its a public download its called "Windows XP Service Pack 3 Preview 100+ Hotfix " can someone please explain to me what that is and is there a service pack 3 now or what?

 

Oroka Sempai

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Proably someones idea what SP3 would look like, if it existed. SP3 dont exist, and AFAIK there is no offical M$ info on a SP3. There are rumors floating around that there will be a SP3 before Vista is released, but that is just rumors. If SP3 is ever released, it will be more along the lines of SP1, a bit more than a years worth of windows updates.

 

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but that one is alot of windows hotfixes its over a 100 of them and they apparantly got to be installed seperatly,

 

telexen

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It's just a collection of hotfixes...many of which the creators claim are "only" available when you call MS for support.

 

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anyone tried this yet or what?

 

telexen

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I downloaded it but when I saw it was just a large (very large) collection of hotfixes I wasn't going to waste my time running them all just to see what they did...it's probably not worth it.

 

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telexen said:

I downloaded it but when I saw it was just a large (very large) collection of hotfixes I wasn't going to waste my time running them all just to see what they did...it's probably not worth it.

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the reason why it has that many of hotfixes because it includes *official* and *none-official* hotfixes from MS.

if you have everything up to date, you only need a few *none-offical* stuffs to go. Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

it's definitely worthy.

thanks

 

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Probably the wrong place to ask this but....

what is AFAIK?

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zip22

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as far as i know

 

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AFAIK I can't call up M$ and ask for the uber secret patches.

 

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ah ha!! Thanks a bunch

 

meionm

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My guess, probably will include IE7