Service Pack 3 for Windows XP now available on Microsoft Update
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: New Releases

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You can get a CD but you have to wait about 4 weeks!

Reply #8 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:00 PM
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en
Reply #10 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:09 PM
If you have not got a good system cleaner then now is a time to consider one as my cleaner - TuneUp 2008 Utilities cleaned about half a gigabyte of crap left behind by the SP3 update - unnecessary update archives and backups, unused shortcuts and files etc etc. Ran PerfectDisk over the whole drive and cleared up an defragmentation problems in 15 minutes. System seems to be noticeably quicker.
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Reply #12 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:51 PM
Bugs.......What bugs?

The link you provided was a well publicized issue that Microsoft found just before releasing SP3 to Windows Update. It related to a small section of customers on the Dynamics program. It does not affect anyone else.
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Reply #14 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 2:49 AM
Reminds me now that from this day forward, MS auto update is off! No way will I stupidly leave that auto update on, they would only persist in installing an update that has failed and tanked my system twice. That's right not just once but twice. So no more of that.
Where to I send in my complaint to MS? And, will they even read it?
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Reply #16 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 8:57 AM
This is what I have been wondering. People have been talking a speed boost. So you see a marked improvement in speed with SP3?
Is there any good programs to use to test the speed of your system, to see for sure or how much improvement is really there?
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Reply #19 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 11:54 AM
I'm some what interested in that also.
You always see posts about tests done comparing different software or programs. I'm one of those that believes the only valid tests or those they we run on our own machines, Who cares if or how it runs on a test machines, right. How is it going to run on my machine the way I have it set up.

Reply #20 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:01 PM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, May 6, 2008 5:21 PM