{"id":131,"date":"2008-03-22T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/22\/windows-xp-service-pack-3-faq.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-22T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:26:59","slug":"windows-xp-service-pack-3-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Service Pack 3 FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to say goodbye to an old friend. Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), due in the second quarter of 2008, will be the final XP service pack , according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/faq\/xp_sp3.asp#\">Microsoft<\/a>. It can&#8217;t come a moment too soon: XP SP2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/reviews\/windowsxp_sp2.asp\">see my review<\/a>) shipped over three years ago at this writing, and the company has since shipped hundreds of hot-fixes for the OS, giving users a painful updating experience, with multiple reboots. XP SP3 will consolidate all of these fixes into a single package and, surprisingly, add a few new features, including some that&#8211;go figure&#8211;debuted first in XP&#8217;s successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/faq\/xp_sp3.asp#\">Windows Vista<\/a>. Here&#8217;s what I know about Windows XP Service Pack 3.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/faq\/xp_sp3.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/faq\/xp_sp3.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/faq\/xp_sp3.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to say goodbye to an old friend. Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), due in the second quarter of 2008, will be the final XP service pack , according to Microsoft. It can&#8217;t come a moment too soon: XP SP2 (see my review) shipped over three years ago at this writing, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}