Windows XP SP1 needed?

airflow · Aug 1, 2009

I'm setting up a system to run windows xp.
-I've installed xp pro on it.
-I've downloaded service pack 3 (the network installation file)

Now sp3 says it won't install because sp1 must be installed first.

Can anyone tell me where/if the sp1a (or even sp1) installation package exists somewhere still.

The express installation is not suitable(new setup not internet connected yet, and need backup of sp1 for future)

cheers.

ps, I've searched pretty hard for it, and only found either old links, or the express installation from the microsoft site.

AtomicMonkey · Aug 1, 2009

Yes SP3 requires either SP1 or SP2.

You can get SP2 from Microsoft

RJARRRPCGP · Aug 1, 2009

That message is gay. Service pack 3 contains all the previous updates.
You can integrate service pack 3, I did in April, with nLite.

But, OTOH, NT 4.0 looks like it requires that you apply early service packs, exactly in the order they were released, before the later service packs. And the worst of all, NT 4.0 had a gazillion service packs!
Even when I haven't used NT 4.0.

Because that was the 1990s, we should have already been out of that mess.

Microsoft has been disappointing lately. It's been looking like Microsoft axed cumulative updates, thus, going back to the 1990s!

airflow · Aug 1, 2009

Seems considerably suckful.
But oh well, I'll have to see if I can borrow someone else's internet to download the ~250mb for sp2 (getting too close to my 1g quota for the month)

Also, I'll have to discover what 'integrating' sp3 means

Mpegger · Aug 1, 2009

I've slipstreamed SP3 into a vanilla XP just fine. As has been stated, SP3 includes all the updates from previous SPs'.

crosshairs · Aug 1, 2009

airflow said:
(getting too close to my 1g quota for the month)

WOW.....how in the world can you live with a 1Gb quota...

Theocnoob · Aug 1, 2009

RJARRRPCGP said:
That message is gay. Service pack 3 contains all the previous updates.
You can integrate service pack 3, I did in April, with nLite.

But, OTOH, NT 4.0 looks like it requires that you apply early service packs, exactly in the order they were released, before the later service packs. And the worst of all, NT 4.0 had a gazillion service packs!
Even when I haven't used NT 4.0.

Because that was the 1990s, we should have already been out of that mess.

Microsoft has been disappointing lately. It's been looking like Microsoft axed cumulative updates, thus, going back to the 1990s!

Im not sure the message's sexual orientation is relevant to installing windows XP SP3

T1Cybernetic · Aug 4, 2009

Theocnoob said:
Im not sure the message's sexual orientation is relevant to installing windows XP SP3

I am sure that they meant it was a very Happy microsoft message :beer:

crosshairs said:
WOW.....how in the world can you live with a 1Gb quota...

It cost's me more than that in emails some weeks, never mind months :drool:

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