Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked

crazyeyes notes the leak of 7 pages of secret Microsoft information on the upcoming Service Pack for Windows XP. Quoting: "We were the first to break the news on the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the final RTM schedule of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Now, we will be the first to release the full details on Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3, which as we know will be available for manual update on April 29, 2008."

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Something to take note of

[blake1]

Allows users to complete their software setup without having to provide a product key.

This isn't the case as far as I've experienced if you slipstream existing SP2 media with the latest service pack. Maybe you have to use new SP3 media from MS, who knows.

Re:This big news...

[blake1]

SP3 is 316MB.

Links to service pack here...

[Anonymous Coward]

The service pack has already been leaked (more info here with usenet and bittorrent links). So far its working fine. There have been some scattered reports of problems but this is mainly due to people missing updates via glitches within Windows Update.

1. My suggestion is everyone download Secunia PSI to scan their systems for older/vulnerable software. Update all software it finds to be out of date.

2. Use Filehippo.com's Update Checking utility to update any software that PSI misses.

3. Use a registry cleaner and temporary file cleanup utility to CCleaner.

Then do the update. It should go perfectly well then.

Re:Slow news day?

[poulbailey]

Yeah, it looks like it's mostly a rehash of Microsoft's own Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview document. Nothing's leaked here.

Guys Chill

[DarkOx]

Microsoft seems to have actually gotten this one right. Its the least envasive service pack I have seen in a long time. Its not that interesting really. It truely is as advertised pretty just a patch rollup. Which was long over due because there were like 78 patches out there against sp2 or something similar. The other thing this provides is the new rdp 6.1 client. I down loaded it to put on my test machines becase we are looking at deploying a few blades running Server 2008 for terminal services to replace or tired Citrix servers. You need the new rdp stuffs for that work right client side.

All this does is let people who admin Windows networks to clean up the WSUS boxes, maybe make some slip stream disks more easily for new installs and image building, and use the advanced features of 2008's terminal server.