XP Service Pack 3

swinnie · 6 Aug 2008 at 20:34

Well, my XP Box is due for a clean up and an image needs to taken of a good clean install. Are there any SP3 issues to be aware of? And would you recommend me integrating that into my install disk with nLite.

Thanks

swinnie

MarcLister · 6 Aug 2008 at 20:38

Not had any issues with SP3 that I can think of. And I haven't integrated it into nLite XP yet. I just downloaded the full install and ran that.

Yozz76 · 6 Aug 2008 at 20:42

I've noticed some slow down since installing but nothing that would put you off.

badbob · 6 Aug 2008 at 21:18

I don't think nliting/slipstreaming is possible? Someone said there is a 500MB and 300MB version, but I can't find the former. Just use the 300MB one.

MarcLister · 6 Aug 2008 at 21:44

badbob said:
I don't think nliting/slipstreaming is possible? Someone said there is a 500MB and 300MB version, but I can't find the former. Just use the 300MB one.

Why wouldn't it be? nLite has been updated for SP3.

bledd · 7 Aug 2008 at 01:21

it is possible, there's only one version, the 300mb one

use nlite 1.4.8 to slipstream

badbob · 7 Aug 2008 at 09:44

I didn't know that. Nliting a disc now. I don't need WMP 6 or 9 (XP) so is it safe to uninstall? I have WMP 11 which I install after the install, will 11 contain older WMV codecs, or do you still need WMP 6/9? About 17MB saving

bledd · 7 Aug 2008 at 09:47

keep WMP (esp 9)

anything in red can cause problems (with certain software) in general..

you need certain parts of WMp to install the newer ones

badbob · 7 Aug 2008 at 09:52

Can't find the option to use Windows 98 style start menu (hate the new XP default start menu)

bledd · 7 Aug 2008 at 09:55

remove 'luna' (the visual style)

start menu is probably in Tweaks section..

badbob · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:48

Right just created a Nlite SP3, done a fresh install. Didn't remove that much, just printer, tour, sounds, help, movie editor, OOBE, animated dog, modem drivers, accesability etc. Not much to effect a install. Installed fine except it requested kbd106.dll, microsoft ehome mcir 109 keyboard.

swinnie · 8 Aug 2008 at 19:09

Well, I now have a fresh install with SP3 on. I bumped into a few errors a long the way...

If you install SP3 before installing Office or Windows Live Messenger they will not install, they fail part way through, for some strange reason.

Other than that it went swimmingly, smaller Windows Update download which was appreciated, as it only took 20 minutes to download necessary updates, rather than an 1 1/2 hours and 50 trillion updates.

nft_99 · 8 Aug 2008 at 19:59

been fine on my system no problems at all

TomElZ · 8 Aug 2008 at 22:23

Yeh Ive been running XP with SP3 installed for quite a while and it seems to run fine, maybe even more smoother than SP2?

swinnie · 8 Aug 2008 at 22:28

Yeah, once I got all my Microsoft Apps installed I put SP3 on and used Windows Update and it is fine, I haven't noticed anything related to performance since installing SP3.

greeny_fastcar · 8 Aug 2008 at 22:56

A SP3 disc can be slipstreamed using the /extract command on the sp3 exe onto a folder copy of the XP disc. Oh and then using the good old MS bootable disc img from the website.

Fillado · 9 Aug 2008 at 11:26

This is on a fresh install of XP where I install from an actual SP2 disc and then use the SP3 update cd image from Microsoft to update to SP3.

Office 2007 installs fine, but the two problems i've noticed:

Windows Live *anything* won't install since the Windows Live Installer just breaks itself. It happens to everyone I think.

.Net doesn't get installed and then doesn't show up in Microsoft Update. Very strange and annoying since I need it for Paint.NET

swinnie · 9 Aug 2008 at 11:53

Fillado said:
This is on a fresh install of XP where I install from an actual SP2 disc and then use the SP3 update cd image from Microsoft to update to SP3.

Office 2007 installs fine, but the two problems i've noticed:

Windows Live *anything* won't install since the Windows Live Installer just breaks itself. It happens to everyone I think.

.Net doesn't get installed and then doesn't show up in Microsoft Update. Very strange and annoying since I need it for Paint.NET

Yeah, so that is a global issue then.

I had issues with installing Office, but mine was Office SBE 2003.