Monday, March 16, 2009

Windows XP Service Pack 3 – Part 3 “Installing SP3 Using Windows Update”

Part 3 was not planned but came about based on a question posted to one of the Microsoft Windows XP newsgroups.

For Parts 1 and 2 I manually downloaded the Windows XP Service Pack 3 .exe file named:(WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe) and used it to install SP3, skipping the more commonly used Microsoft Windows Update site

In part 3 of this series will identify where Windows Updates downloads the SP3 update files to on your hard drive and how much disk space does it really take to install SP3.

I will also cover what gets cleaned up during and after installing SP3, what is left behind on your hard drive, a trick on how to free up some drive space before you install SP3 and what you can safely delete after installing SP3 to gain back even more of that lost disk space.

At the end of this article I’ll make some suggestions on how to optimize your chances of installing SP3 successfully.

Read the entire article: http://www.pagestart.com/windowsxpsp3p3pg1.html

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