Re: XP SP3 - details ?

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No, SP3 has not been released yet. In any case it does not include the bundled programs like WMP or IE. The bundled programs have their own updates and service packs. SP3 is not a new copy of the OS.

"- Bobb -" <bobb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uYT4g09mIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Cleaning up " one of my XP PC's and wondering - is SP3 "officially released " ? I've got a LOT of stuff in add/remove - under updates for XP and was thinking - maybe update and get that to one line:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en
I went online (Google,Msft) to see what exactly will be included when I install SP3 since I purposely skipped a lot of updates. I'm still on IE6, and also didn't have a need for a lot of the optional 'windowsupdates' that it WAS gonna push to me, so I unchecked them. It seems from reading that I'll get " all of the stuff that I had not installed" anyway, but can still stay at IE6.

Anyone installed it ? If so, could you tell me please :
How big a download ? Does it check to see
what I have first ? or when I run it ?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en shows file-size 1mb ??!!!
I assume that's the INSTALLER ? is it interactive or can I download and Save it to disk - to run later or a differnet PC ?

If we assume that I HAD installed ALL updates listed at "windowsupdate" and I then installed SP3, would I have anything different on my PC ? Or would it just remove all of the old KBuninstall folders / info from add/remove and replace it with one line in add/remove ?

Thanks


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