XP SP3 (3311) standalone now available for download in Microsoft Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20041108 en Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:12:42 EDT Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:12:42 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20057119 ltsnow : I have reasons that I like to slipstream and I have the time (a couple of hours for each new build), but thanks anyway. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20057119 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:45:36 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20057105 bcastner : If you are going to use ATI to revert then there is absolutely no reason to slipstream.

It would take longer to build a slipstream and do a new installation than it would be to install SP3 on a working build.

A slipstream in your case is not only a Beta program violation, it is an enormous waste of time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20057105 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:29:12 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20055500 ltsnow : Thanks for all your input Bill. Your advice is sound for the normal consumer. I am one of those "technically-inclined individuals that are comfortable using pre-release software". Heck, I can build and install a slipstreamed version of SP3 in less than an hour (I've done it with every beta release). Then if necessary I can revert to SP2 in 4 minutes with ATI. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20055500 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:38:01 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20055275 Mele20 : Since installing this, defragger wants to run every 24 hours. How do stop this? I ran defragger after the install (although not immediately but when it popped up). ProcessGuard blocks it but I don't understand why defragger wants to run every 24 hours. I have never had that happen with SP2. Defragger never asks to run. I manually run it about 3 times a year on my host machine.

Plus, I installed this on a virtual machine. VMWare notifies me whenever the virtual machine needs defragging which, like the host, is usually about 3 times a year. Since I defragged shortly after installing this Service Pack 3, why does defragger want to run every 24 hours?

Edit: Defragger has tried to run two more times in the past hour. I denied it in ProcessGuard and then I went and manually had defrag do an analysis. The disk doesn't need defragging so why defragger keeps wanting to run I don't know.
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said by takeahike See Profile :

Being the 'patient' one I am I wish they'd just release the final already so I could install it. Then we can accuse them of rushing it out the door!
LOL That will be inevitable won't it?
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As the SP3 Team stated at the start of the Beta:
quote:
This pre-release software is provided for testing purposes only. Microsoft does not recommend installing this software on primary or mission critical systems. Microsoft recommends that you have a backup of your data prior to installing any pre-release software. It is pre-release software, and is time-limited, and is intended for IT professionals, developers, and other technically-inclined individuals that are comfortable using pre-release software.


Search the link above for "time limit" to see the tons of posts regarding the issue; but from the release of the first Beta the intention to time bomb all releases was made unambiguous.

Since RTM is to be "before first half 2008", the time limit should not be an issue unless you still have installed the first Beta. That might be pushing the deadline, depending on when it was installed.

But the imporant issue is that it makes no sense to slipstream these releases. First, there has been no assurance you can install an update over the top. It seems to me that there would not be an issue, unless you slipstreamed. The slipstream denies the installer the ability to revert. Second, even though the current RC is permitted for an over-the-top (for non-slipstream)installation, a read of the support forum suggests this has proved problematic. In my own testing, 4/10 would not install the current release candidate until I manually did an Add/Remove of the previous version. As each of the ones that had issues had different issues, I cannot generalize. But it does seem to me that for something as important as a Service Pack (of 300+mb) that doing it clean of any Beta or Release Candidate of that service pack makes the sanest sense, or at least you do want that option.

Save the slipstreams until RTM.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052346 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:03:55 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052327 Grail Knight : Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052327 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:52:04 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052319 bcastner : I wrote a FAQ on the SP3 release, including links to all Microsoft support sites for the Beta and Release Candidates. »aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=30732

But Microsoft states the time bomb is in place clearly on its main support site for the release: »forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/Sho···iteID=17]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052319 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:48:42 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052307 Grail Knight : Post withdrawn by me.

Edit* ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052307 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:42:57 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052195 bcastner : And your Microsoft cite for this Mele20 See Profile?

My concern is that you can easily revert in the non-slipstream case, but you cannot in a slipstream. This limits the options to zero for what can be done when SP3 goes RTM. If the decision is made that it can only be installed with a previous RC removed, something that a non-slipstream allows, then the slipstream folks are in trouble.

Finally, if the OS will not continue to run unless upgraded, or nags you constantly, how is this not a time bomb?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20052195 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:56:22 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051974 Mele20 : It won't bomb. You will be offered the Gold Master from WU which will upgrade this RC. I also assume Microsoft will allow upgrading via the Download center. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051974 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:17:35 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051970 Mele20 : I didn't know it started up all services during the install? I have a bunch of services disabled and it didn't complain and if it started the ones not disabled but not already started...I didn't see it do that. It installed very rapidly. I did notice that even with not much in the way of programs, my documents, mail, etc. on this computer that it had to be defragged immediately and the fragmentation was 33% which had to have been just from the install. The install increased the size of the virtual disk also. I want to install it on my XP Pro SP1 virtual machine but that virtual disk has a fixed size and I don't think I have enough space especially for a defrag afterwards.

As for the Raid error boot, I think that is your nVidia board. I have an nVidia board and I have two Sata 300 drives and I get that error at every boot since I got the machine two years ago. I don't do Raid either but in order to enable NCQ on the drives, this board required that I install the nVidia Raid drivers. Dell told me it was normal on an nVidia board to see that error at boot because a Raid setup is expected. But since you said you have only gotten the Raid error recently maybe your problem is something different.
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BTW, I am only testing these things out. I have tons of Acronis images that I can immediately revert to if there is any problem. But I must say that every SP3 build that I have Nlited has worked perfectly.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051821 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:06:20 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051623 bcastner : You "can" do a lot of things. That does not mean that they are a smart thing to do. Slipstreaming Beta and Release Candidates denies you the ability to revert the change.

There are web sites that are more than happy to give you the details on how to slipstream SP3; e.g. »www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreame···3_cd.htm

But as the Microsoft Website for SP3 Beta and RC users has pointed out, there is no formal provision for doing so, and a slipstream is not a supported installation: »forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/Sea···mID=2010

Moving your clock ahead is not a valid test of the time bomb. It is in fact time bombed. Something you will discover at a later date.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051623 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:01:51 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051279 ltsnow :
said by bcastner See Profile :

There is no facility to slipstream this. That will have to wait for the final.

Also, it cannot be applied to an XP "Gold" release. It will only install if you are at least at Service Pack 1.

Finally, yes it is time bombed.
You certainly can slipstream it. My system right now was slipstreamed yesterday. Also, I moved my clock ahead a year. No evidence of a timebomb. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051279 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:38:16 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051223 darkwish : The service pack is slipstreamable, as I'm using windows xp + sp3 installed by a slipstreamed cd. Yes it won't install on XP Gold, but it will slipstream onto it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051223 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:24:08 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051193 bcastner : There is no facility to slipstream this. That will have to wait for the final.

Also, it cannot be applied to an XP "Gold" release. It will only install if you are at least at Service Pack 1.

Finally, yes it is time bombed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051193 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:17:16 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051183 darkwish :
said by ltsnow See Profile :

said by darkwish See Profile :

said by tahoejeff See Profile :

i'm building a pc for a customer next week, and i want to slipstream this with her xp install cd. her install cd doesn't even have sp2, so this would save me the time/trouble of all the updates.
do you all think this is stable enough to put on a technophobe's pc? it sounds to me like this is nearly the final release.
No, I wouldn't install a beta OS to customer's machine, especially one that isn't technically inclined. The SP3 beta also timebomb in 6 months. So unless you planned to reinstall windows for her in 6 months then SP2 would be better.
I doubt that this is true. I never saw anything about this and for fun I moved my computer clock one year ahead and rebooted. No problems.

Anyway, the final will be out soon so this is a moot point.
I stand corrected, it was only the beta's, not the RC's. Still, when the final comes out, you won't be able install it till you uninstall the previous SP3. And if it was slipstreamed... you can't. You'd probably have to do a repair install with SP3 Final slipstreamed cd.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051183 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:14:29 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051114 La Luna : Thanks for the replies to my question everyone! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051114 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:58:09 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050874 ltsnow :
said by La Luna See Profile :

When the final of SP3 is released, is there any pressing reason why everyone absolutely "needs" this? I haven't seen anything posted in the threads about it that indicate that. What is it bringing to the table that is new and/or different? It basically seems to be a conglomeration of fixes and security updates since SP 2 was released, unless I've missed something.
It does add network security features and also adds a lot of hotfixes that were not readily available. In all there is just over 1000 changes. But for me the most important aspect is the ability to have a completely updated system on one disk. I do a lot Nlite builds and this is the only way to go.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050874 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:00:58 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050855 ltsnow :
said by darkwish See Profile :

said by tahoejeff See Profile :

i'm building a pc for a customer next week, and i want to slipstream this with her xp install cd. her install cd doesn't even have sp2, so this would save me the time/trouble of all the updates.
do you all think this is stable enough to put on a technophobe's pc? it sounds to me like this is nearly the final release.
No, I wouldn't install a beta OS to customer's machine, especially one that isn't technically inclined. The SP3 beta also timebomb in 6 months. So unless you planned to reinstall windows for her in 6 months then SP2 would be better.
I doubt that this is true. I never saw anything about this and for fun I moved my computer clock one year ahead and rebooted. No problems.

Anyway, the final will be out soon so this is a moot point.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050855 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:56:38 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050814 tahoejeff : thanks darkwish. i didn't know it was a time limited release.
guess i'll just slipstream sp2 for her
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said by tahoejeff See Profile :

i'm building a pc for a customer next week, and i want to slipstream this with her xp install cd. her install cd doesn't even have sp2, so this would save me the time/trouble of all the updates.
do you all think this is stable enough to put on a technophobe's pc? it sounds to me like this is nearly the final release.
No, I wouldn't install a beta OS to customer's machine, especially one that isn't technically inclined. The SP3 beta also timebomb in 6 months. So unless you planned to reinstall windows for her in 6 months then SP2 would be better.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050517 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:53:20 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20050401 Mercurybird : Downloaded fine. The install goes fine until it gets to the part where it wants to start up all the services to test them- it hangs right there.

Disabled and closed everything in the right side of the taskbar that was remotely security related. Then let it restore and did it again- with the same result.

Started the system in Safe Mode and it had the same results. System is doing fine with the third automatic backout and restore.

Might be just about anything causing the glitch. Since it wouldn't do it in Safe Mode I'm betting it is hardware related. I have an Nvidia Lanparty board with the hardware firewall active. Also running an SATA drive. I get a raid failure upon bootup for some reason for the last few days. I'm not running any raid drives.

This isn't to draw all of you out to try and figure this out. I'm going to wait for the full release then try it again. This is to let you know that at least one failure has happened, and some ballpark reasons why that might be.

My assumptions above as to why it is happening is just a bunch of guesses. Good to see it's going so well for everyone else. :) :p
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do you all think this is stable enough to put on a technophobe's pc? it sounds to me like this is nearly the final release.
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Don't bother with it.

-Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20048757 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:33:32 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20048477 fuziwuzi : I'd been running the 3264 build and now installed the 3311 build. From what I can tell, the networking in the SP3 seems to be more in line with Vista. Many of the security and other network features in Vista are now in XP with SP3. It also appears that the XP Firewall has been beefed up a bit, to be more along the lines of that in Vista.

Of course this is just subjective, but it does appear to be a bit "peppier" in action, as well.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20048477 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:28 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20047922 La Luna : When the final of SP3 is released, is there any pressing reason why everyone absolutely "needs" this? I haven't seen anything posted in the threads about it that indicate that. What is it bringing to the table that is new and/or different? It basically seems to be a conglomeration of fixes and security updates since SP 2 was released, unless I've missed something.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20047922 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:04:19 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20047758 Santa Fe :
said by ltsnow See Profile :

said by Santa Fe See Profile :

Downloaded it. Installed fine. But now the UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final patch doesn't work anymore. :(

Oh Well, back to the blah Windows XP look! ;)

Silly me, decided to see if any other themes would work. Picked one, applied, total BLACK ness! :D So rather than play where's the menu, went into safe mode, chose the Admin icon & picked no at the pop up option box to run system restore and went back to just before I installed it. May try again AFTER deleting all of the extra theme files FIRST! :D
My my. All you have to do is repatch the uxtheme.dll file. It's simple and the way to do it is all over the internet.
I thought about that, just after I messed around. So I just decided to go back to before the SP3 install anyway, and wait for the final release version, THEN redo the uxtheme.dll. ;)
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Downloading now! :)
Great speed 2 boot! :D

Rogers High Speed
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045879 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:14:54 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045776 Boricua65 : Downloading as I type at 125KB/sec on a 3 Mbps connection :uhh:. I guess I'll have to wait about a half an hour before installing :huh:.

EDIT: Thank you for heads up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045776 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:49:09 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045771 ltsnow :
said by tahoejeff See Profile :

anyone know if this can be slipstreamed?
Yes. Although I haven't done it yet (will tonight), I've done it with every other release and they all work.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045771 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:47:30 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045766 ltsnow :
said by Santa Fe See Profile :

Downloaded it. Installed fine. But now the UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final patch doesn't work anymore. :(

Oh Well, back to the blah Windows XP look! ;)

Silly me, decided to see if any other themes would work. Picked one, applied, total BLACK ness! :D So rather than play where's the menu, went into safe mode, chose the Admin icon & picked no at the pop up option box to run system restore and went back to just before I installed it. May try again AFTER deleting all of the extra theme files FIRST! :D
My my. All you have to do is repatch the uxtheme.dll file. It's simple and the way to do it is all over the internet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045766 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:46:12 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045673 Mele20 : I went to bed shortly after installing it. Just now, I got on the computer to find ProcessGuard asking what to do about Windows Defragger which wanted to run. I should have thought about that last night as obviously you would need to run defrag after this installation. I told PG to let it run and then it didn't run.

PG is alerting very frequently now because everything has changed.
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kb/sec, installation about the same. Then defragging and registry cleaning
another 10.

Did the PCpitstop test, broadbandreports tweak test and ShieldsUP. All
normal.

The only thing that happened upon a restart after installation was the OE
icon was missing from the desktop.

It seems to have retained all other settings and all programs work.

Haven't decided yet to go back with an image or leave it.

XPSP3 doesn't seem to do much of anything other than update updates to SP2,
which I already had. There are some minor embellishments, but none seem
relevant for me.

I think it is a waste of time except for XP SP1 users.

No charge from me for this ;).

-Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20045091 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:40:12 EDT Re: XP SP3 (3111) standalone now available for download http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20042436 Dogwood : It actually XP SP3 v3311

Download was fast, installation was fairly quick, about 4 minutes.
No issues yet.
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I noticed when the virtual machine that now has SP3 release candidate on it rebooted that the logo screen was tiny ...I wonder why?
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1.23MB/sec

Have'nt installed yet...
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Oh Well, back to the blah Windows XP look! ;)

Silly me, decided to see if any other themes would work. Picked one, applied, total BLACK ness! :D So rather than play where's the menu, went into safe mode, chose the Admin icon & picked no at the pop up option box to run system restore and went back to just before I installed it. May try again AFTER deleting all of the extra theme files FIRST! :D
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