windows xp sp3 rc2

bledd. said:
slipstreaming rc's is just a royal waste of time, why do people bother
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Well it was for my MacBook which I need to quickly install windows on before the weekend, it takes about 30 seconds to do a slipstream compared to hours for all updates from SP2 or still a long time for SP3 RC2 within windows. Had it all up and running within a hour, saved me a lot of time even If i do have to re-do it again in a few weeks.
 
'hours'

running windows update does not take hours, especially on a fairly high spec machine like that
 
Trust me it does, I've done enough SP2 installs over the past year. There are near 100 security patches plus .NET 3 Framework which is a hefty download even on a 2mb connection. Plus it's not entirely automated, there is user action required and you have to run windowsupdate several times to get all of the updates (plus the first run makes you install genuine advantage). If you consider that it takes about 30 seconds to do the slipstream procedure compared to any other method of updating it's time saved.
 
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Not much time saved if you have to remove RC2 to install RTM as you do with the Vista SP1 RCs though. That's going to require a full reinstall for you.
 
Sukh said:
When does the official release happen?
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64 million dollar question, lol.

Vista HP-64 is coming to me in 11 days, hoping it's sp1 though, I've gotten sick of re-installing xp sp1 and updating it again over the past few months (5 times since december).
 
I was just thinking of switching to Vista, but i quite like XP.
Building a PC for my brother next week and have vista around somewhere and might put it on his first to see how it goes since SP1 is out?
 
Well I was bored and thought I would download the SP3 for XP.

It hangs about half way through the install :confused:

Tried 3 times now. Gonna leave it till the official one comes out.
 
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