After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The service pack, undoubtedly the last for the aged ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

Windows XP Service Pack 3 officially hit Microsoft servers this morning, and although it won't be available through Windows Update today, it should be sometime soon. Your desire to stay on the cutting ...

Microsoft Corp. today finally slapped a “Done” sticker on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and pushed it out the door. The designation of SP3 as RTM, short for “release to manufacturing,” wasn’t much of a ...

I regularly update Windows XP and it tells me the new SP3 is around 67MB, to be downloaded and installed. There must be many people like me who are not on broadband and face a 6-hour download. Would ...

Microsoft Corp. has released service pack 3 to Windows XP, which the software maker plans to stop selling through OEMs this year. The service pack had been delayed a week due to problems integrating ...

The Windows Vista and Windows 7 DVDs come with System Recovery Options, a comprehensive set of recovery tools used to restore the operating system. While Windows XP SP3 CD doesn't offer the same ...

I installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP as instructed, but it somehow disabled startup, putting me into an on/off loop. Can I safely do without SP3 and, if not, do you know of a "fix" for the ...

Windows XP SP3, which was unofficially released almost a week ago and has been available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for even longer than that, does not come with Windows Internet Explorer 7.