Windows XP SP3?

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Spartan Erik

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Being a dedicated XP fan, and refusing to upgrade to Vista, there is some great news!

"Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100 percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2.

Vista SP1, due out in the first quarter of 2008, barely improved the operating system's performance.

But XP SP3, scheduled for the first half of 2008, did improve on XP's earlier performance, running 10 percent faster than SP2."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_xp_sp3_performance

I ought to buy up some OEM copies of XP on campus while I still can!

It's unfortunate that on June 30th of 2008, XP support will be dropped; but what support would you need for an operating system that is rock solid if maintained? Vista on the other hand..
 
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It's unfortunate that on June 30th of 2008, XP support will be dropped; but what support would you need for an operating system that is rock solid if maintained? Vista on the other hand..


they will make sp3 with lots of bugs, forcing people to install vista, since the support will be dropped, no sp4 or corrections to sp3 will be made
 

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I enjoy a good conspiracy theory about microsoft, (mine is that sp3 just removes the sp2 slowdowns that they implemented to sell vista, which was slated to be released 'soon') That said, that wasn't the case with windows 2ks last service pack. If they do release a bad service pack, it certainly won't force people to vista, viva la revolucion.
 

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Well, i don't care what anyone else thinks, i'm not going to Vista... it has to many limitations, anything you do, every 5 minutes, "You need admin privelages to do this would you like to enable them now?" So annoying... can't wait for SP3, although, will this also be released for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition? I hope so...
 

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I haven't read on anything about XP's support being dropped, do you have a source for that? I've read that they were going to stop selling Windows XP in June 2008.
 

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I sware, I'm going to go Linux if they don't sort out the problems with Vista. Eventually, we'll all have to upgrade. I like XP, but its kinda prodictable that it will just become massively insecure. And if Vista is STILL slow, then... well... Linux.
 

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Windows XP has been solid since I've known. But the same cannot be said of Vista. I am glad that they are releasing the SP3....I read that they are not many GUI changes or so. But still it is something if not anything.
 

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I guess I am one of the only few who half way like vista, it does have its downs, but its... ok... for a Microsoft product.
 

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OMG! SP3! XP lives on but i'm kinda disappointed with Micro$oft because they should've put priority on this before Vista... Vista is an epic fail....
 

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I'm interested to see if SP3 really does make that much difference. XP is so slow for booting anyways. My Ubuntu 7.04 boots fully in 20 seconds. :thefinger
 
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It's still in beta, and you people that are very picky and refuse to get Vista have a lot to learn. I have been using the 32 bit version of Ultimate since like a month after it came out. I Have not had a single blue screen and almost all compatibility problems can be resolved by simply running it in Windows XP mode which is a one setting change one time.
 

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No one knows what the inal version of vista SP1 will be like as it is a beta and you said it barely improved system performance well all I say is atleast it has a change and they will make it better for the final release. After all they will eant to shift as many copys of vista as possible.
 

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Do you guys realize the only ****ty copies are the 64 bit versions?
 

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I have 4 PC's and as ofcourse I will always go with a Mac over a Windows. Don't care what you saw but when grow up around them and you work for them you start to really get in deep. Linux is a lot better than windows because of its *change* system, you can customize it. I have two Windows Pc's, one Mac, and one Linux (for hosting perposes)

I will go ahead and try the XP SP3 and see the difference, but I gaurantee it won't change the virus and security change at all. You can still easily be effected only difference is booting and running processes has changed. =P
 

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I learned about this last year from a bunch of hackers, now I feel special :p
 

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Tried to get SP3 to no avail. I think i signed up for beta testing but no.
Anyway I tried Vista Home Premium on my Dell Notebook with 1.4GHZ and 512MB of ram but it was horrifically slow, on the other hand XP and W2KSP4 was fast.

This shows that Vista hogs memory.
BTW, why do you call Microsoft M$? Dont get it.
 

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  1. Download this file ( WindowsXPSP3Hack.cmd ). Once you have downloaded the file, login as administrator and run the file by double clicking it. Wait for the Confirmation Message on screen.
  2. The Above file adds a few entries to the Windows Registry that makes Microsoft think that you are a part of the Private beta program.
  3. Check for new updates on Windows Update. You should now see Windows XP SP3 listed in the available updates.
  4. Download and install it. Reboot whenever necessary.

Please note this hack is the exact way Microsoft expects its beta testers to try Windows XP SP3 out, so you don’t have to worry too much about Microsoft catching hold of you.


Go ahead and try out SP3, don't blame me it fuxxors your system though.
 

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Wonder how long it will take to get XP as many service packs as 2000.
 

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None, XP has reached its EOL. No more SP's for XP, and soon to be no more windowsupdate for it either.
 
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