[Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

[Edward R Cole]

If you need upgrades to SP3 for win-XP, you may be too late.

I rebuilt an old computer a couple weeks ago as it had gotten 
corrupted and the easiest process was to wipe clean the HD and 
reinstall windows.  I only have a CD with SP2 so have relied on 
auto-updating to upgrade to SP3. A couple weeks ago that worked fine.

My wife wanted her duo-core desktop rebuilt but may have taken too 
long to save off her favorite files.  I got it three days ago and 
have rebuilt it, but auto-upgrading is not available.  The IE-6.0 
crashes on opening and needs to upgrade to IE-8.0 but first one has 
to have SP3.  Well, I went exploring on MS website and found SP3 
upgrades for professionals (316 MB) so hoping it will still 
download.  You used to be able to get a CD with SP3 but it is NLA.

If you were planning to upgrade your old XP computer before they stop 
support -- well -- it may already be too late?
How's the saying go?  "you snooze, you lose!"

73, Ed - KL7UW
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