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YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

download it while it's still hot or wait 4 more days for the official release :O

phreaks

Is it genuine? how?

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

phreaks wrote:
Is it genuine? how?

it was leaked a few days ago and the size and build number matches so it should be the real deal

jamie

downloading...

(thanks)

edit: slow... but got it .

well its xp weekend now

as the chicken says: backup backup backup!

Shining Arcanine

"Microsoft periodically combines updates, fixes, and other improvements into a single package - Service Pack"

That probably should be sporadically rather than periodically. Microsoft has not periodically released service packs in years.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Downloading updates from a non-Microsoft source. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

Bas wrote:
Downloading updates from a non-Microsoft source. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Yes. One thing I would not do. Download OS updates from a third party.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

If the MS digital signature is valid it's probably not a virus, but it might still be a pre-release version.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Sven Groot wrote:
If the MS digital signature is valid it's probably not a virus, but it might still be a pre-release version.

Or not, considering it's on MSDN now.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

The fact that MS has released it in any way doesn't make external download sources any more reliable.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Sven Groot wrote:
The fact that MS has released it in any way doesn't make external download sources any more reliable.

True.

So I'd rather see everyone safe; the MD5 for the 32bit ISO on MSDN is 308245853e5b231343ee17b36ffda1e6

magicalclick

Yeah, it is way safer going through the windows update MS internal network. Although watch out fake DSN or some existing virus in your PC redirecting you to traps.

Vasudev

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:

phreaks wrote:Is it genuine? how?

it was leaked a few days ago and the size and build number matches so it should be the real deal

Is it not illegal to put MS downloads on third part sites, When its exclusively available on MS?

btw the size is different , What shown at Softpedia is 316MB while I downloaded SP3 from MSDN/TechNet is 544MB.

Also one of my friend had tried the one available on softpdia, and it doesnt have XP Sp3 install screens which you get while installing from MS.
I dont know what other difference might be looking at the size difference.

Can the XP SP3 RC2 refresh be tweaked in some way to make it show SP3 RTM version? because the file name obtained from Softpedia is same as one of SP3RC2 refresh exe with a small diff in size.

phreaks

WHere is SP3 on MSDN?

I can't find it in subscriber downloads under XP.

And when did they change the MSDN UI, I want the old UI back...

Are we talking RTM or RC here?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929

Vasudev

Its there on MSDN/TechNet. Please check the Top Subscribers Download section.
Its RTM.

And I just observed the ISO obtained from MSDN/TechNet. If you extract the ISO, you'll have that exe file (~316MB) being available at softpedia.
So its not providing the other things. Will just check what those other things are.

phreaks

Cool, thanks I found it under top downloads.

Now that SP3 is installed, XP is seeing almost all 4 Gb of memory!?! Big Smile

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I suspect that, like Vista SP1, it just changes the reported number from "usable memory" to "installed memory". I doubt it can actually use all that.