Windows XP Service Pack 3

[Arn0t]

ok well i heard there are a bunch of differences in windows service pack 3. but i have just installed it, and i dont see any major differences. Anyone here have more insight to this, or anybody that has installed it and is feeling the same way i do?

 

[nossr50]

The only service pack I want is one that adds DX10 support >

 

[/dev/null]

It saves a good bit of patching on a clean install, but other than that, most users should not notice a thing. Only had to download a small handful of patches after SP3 from a clean build. That use to take 30+ patches.

 

[-nocturne=-]

As far as the problems go, most involved specialized services meant for extremely large managed networks or Point of Sale systems. There is the endless rebooting bug with AMD cpu's, but it is only because certain OEMs like HP loaded some install images with drivers meant for Intel chips (fixed by a small registry patch to disable the intel service -- funny that MS still hasn't figured that out).