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Windows XP SP3: The improvements are under the hood
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), just out from Microsoft as Release Candidate 2 (RC2), may not necessarily be worth the download now, but when it’s finally released, it’ll be worth the effort. It won’t make any noticeable cosmetic changes to your operating system, but underneath the hood are several security improvements worth having. In addition, one researcher claims it will slightly boost XP’s speed as well.
Microsoft is using an interesting method to distribute XP SP3. You don’t download it as a separate .exe file — instead, you download a small executable file that, when run, changes your Registry so that Windows Update will download XP SP3. If you are comfortable with editing the Registry, you can instead use a hack to tell your Registry to download SP3. Windows XP SP3: The improvements are under the hood
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