Is Service Pack 3 for XP out officially or is it

[WeaponXxX]

Well I recently put Vista on all my machines but my UX280 ... I feel ran better with XP so I am preparing a jump drive copy of XP...I was gonna slipstream Service Pack 3 but I noticed it said that SP3 was for testing? IS SP3 officially out? Anyone use it? Thoughts? Thanks in advance

 

[754boy]

Nope its not officially out yet, that other one is a release candidate. I miss XP. Vista is a resource hog and I heard that SP1 was not going to make it run any smoother. I think I'm going back after SP3 gets released.

 

[amptor]

Hmm I must be behind the times, i didn't know there was such a thing as SP3. However I guess it'd be good to create one since SP2 doesn't have native timezone fixes. I have the very latest SP2 CD here, nothing too special about it.

Vista is better than XP btw.

 

[WeaponXxX]

Vista kicks ass on my Quad and Dual Core PCs...however my UX280 is only a single core so it doesn't perform very well. I was hoping that readyboost would help (Using Vista) but it doesn't ... so yay time to format

@amptor
google windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu-.exe

 

[Javacat]

I've heard a few people raving about how good SP3 is and that it improves XP's performance by quite a bit. It includes pretty much all the updates that pre-dates it. If I was formatting my PC I'd probably put it on now.

 

[Urza]

Vista is a resource hog and I heard that SP1 was not going to make it run any smoother.

SP1 makes Vista run noticeably snappier, but it still isn't up to par with XP yet.