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

[Charles Johnson]

It’s not too late...

I just finished rebuilding an XP machine from scratch (reformatted hard drive) and also had only an XP SP2 CD. IE 6.0 (as contained on the CD) would not update to IE 8, nor would the service patches apply because “Windows Update” is no longer supported. “Microsoft Update” is the new method, but could not get it to install either. Finally found all the updates on Microsoft’s website, but it’s a manual effort. Going from XP SP2, first update to SP3 via a download of SP3. That gets you IE 8, but in order to update to “Microsoft Update” there is a security patch that has to be applied first. Once that is applied, then there are 132 updates that come automatically after you enable “automatic updates”.

Worked for me. My old Dell P4 is running an updated XP just fine.

73, Charles, K4ZRJ

On Mar 28, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net> wrote:

> 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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