Comments on: A Look at Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1

By: sprkymrk

sprkymrk — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:00:44 +0000

Thanks for the lowdown James. Good info to know.

By: Guti

Guti — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:21:38 +0000

It would be nice to see some performance measurements regarding this RC.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:38:04 +0000

With regards to, “If you want Internet Explorer 7 on your Windows XP computer, remember to install it before installing Service Pack 3.” What if you have an XP CD with SP2 slipstreamed and you want to make a XP CD with IE7 and SP3. How would you recommend achieving this? BTW - I use nLite a lot. My guess is to slipstream IE7 into the XPSP2 CD and then on a second pass, slipstream SP3. I be greatful for your insight and comments.

Rob
Lynchburg, VA

By: Howard Reagan

Howard Reagan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:12:20 +0000

I appreciate the review of Win XP SP3 RC1, good job and good advice. Being the lead dog is tough sometimes, I am staying in the pack for now.

By: James D. Murray

James D. Murray — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:45:06 +0000

99% of SP3 RC1 seems to be all of the previously released updates for XP, so I am actually using it to update my non-critical WinXP computers. I can certainly say that it’s one heck of a time saver not having to go through Windows Update after you install Windows SP2 on a new machine. All I need to make a new XP system now is the WinXP SP2 install CD and a USB Flash drive with SP3 and the IE7 and .NET redistributable installers.

By: Mats

Mats — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:42:54 +0000

Thanks for the info James.
I have a question: Is it multilingual? Or does it only support English versions?

Mats
Stockholm
Sweden

By: James D. Murray

James D. Murray — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:25:19 +0000

There is no information in the overview indicating that SP3 RC1 is or isn’t multi-lingual. However, I just attempted to install it on French Windows XP SP2 and received the error message, “Setup cannot update your Windows XP files because the language installed on your system is different from the update language.” It looks like SP3 RC1 is English-only.

By: Shubhendu Pal

Shubhendu Pal — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:53:10 +0000

I have already installed SP3 on a SP2 machine. It works fine. But I had no information regarding IE7 issue and now I want to upgrade IE 6 to IE7. Is there any way? Any update? or Uninstalling IE6 and installing IE7? Please let me know. Thanks.

By: Joe D

Joe D — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:57:03 +0000

Was there an answer to Rob’s question? Thanx . . . Joe D

Rob Says:

December 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
With regards to, “If you want Internet Explorer 7 on your Windows XP computer, remember to install it before installing Service Pack 3.” What if you have an XP CD with SP2 slipstreamed and you want to make a XP CD with IE7 and SP3. How would you recommend achieving this? BTW - I use nLite a lot. My guess is to slipstream IE7 into the XPSP2 CD and then on a second pass, slipstream SP3. I be greatful for your insight and comments.

By: James D. Murray

James D. Murray — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:10:50 +0000

Shubhendu and Joe:

Apparently there is a bug in IE7 that prevents it from being slipstreamed. There is a work-around discussed on this discussion thread.

By: James D. Murray

James D. Murray — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:20:08 +0000

Sorry not to mention until now, but Windows XP SP3 RC2 was released on February 19th. If you have any issues, please report them on the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) forum.