Free Download Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

Woot! finally the day has come windows xp service pack 3 is officially out for FREE DOWNLOAD.

In fact, Windows XP service pack 2 was one of the most stable releases however they were till a few bugs in SP 2, hope they are fixed in the Service Pack 3 release.

The Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 offical page says,

"Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available to the public. Specific registry settings will allow you to be offered SP3 via Windows Update. You can also choose to download standalone update packages."

In fact this is not auto-downloaded like most of the updates. Microsoft is not yet pushing this to your machine via auto-update however they might do it in future. However we have often seen that Windows XP update wizard is extremely slow. We are better off downloading it directly from Microsoft website using some download manager and we have the setup if in case we need it in future.

Few more details about the version:

Version: 1

Date Published: 3/6/2008 .

Language: English

Download Size: 38 KB - 951.8 MB*

By the way, Windows Service Pack 2 is required in order to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2.

If you want to enable it via Windows update, follow these instructions, To obtain RC2 via Windows Update, download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key on your system. The registry key is required for Windows Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2. This release includes, windows xp professional service pack 3.

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