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

[William Liporace - WC2L]

Here is a manual download from a safe site:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24

Will WC2L

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Edward R Cole
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 6:28 PM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

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
http://www.kl7uw.com
     "Kits made by KL7UW"
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