To download the complete 313MB SP3 for all English versions of Windows XP, click the download link at the top of this page.What are the key features of Windows XP SP2? If you have Windows XP Service Pack 1a or Service Pack 2 already on your system, you can install Service Pack 3 now. if you have either Windows XP original (with no Service Pack), you must install Service Pack 2 first, followed by Service Pack 3. However, Service Pack 2 includes all of Service Pack 1a. You can't apply SP3 unless you have, at bare minimum, Windows XP SP1a. Microsoft stopped supporting the early releases of Windows XP. *This next bit is going to get confusing.One notable exception is that, SP3 does include Network Access Protection (NAP).' For instance, Windows XP SP3 does not include Windows Internet Explorer 7, although Windows XP SP3 does include updates to both Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7, and it will update whichever version is installed on the computer. From the Release Notes: 'Microsoft is not adding significant functionality from newer versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista, to Windows XP through XP SP3.Windows XP SP3 includes them by default (System administrators must choose to install each of these updates): MMC 3.0, MSXML6, Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.5, IPsec Simple Policy Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, Digital Identity, Management Service (DIMS), Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) 2.1, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2). The following are already available for Windows XP in stand-alone updates.Only two new features have been added: Black Hole Router Detection Windows and Network Access Protection (NAP).All enhancements and new features that were included with Windows XP SP1 and Windows XP SP2.All previous security patches and fixes released for Windows XP.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes the following: Click here for the AMD Windows XP SP3 hotfix. Other notes: Systems with AMD chips need to have the following fix installed before installing SP3, otherwise your system may never start. Please remember that any updates released after Service Pack 3 was available in April 2008 will have to be installed. The SP3 download is quite large and can be applied to any version of Windows XP 32 bit only).

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (XP SP3) fixes a set of problems and adds additional features to Windows XP.

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