2008/2/20 Amer Karim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142664-c,xp/article.html

  A beta of Win XP SP3 is being put under general release.
Interesting.  Thanks for the tip.

  In the future, though, could you at least mention what you're
posting about.  A subject line of "FYI" and a message containing
nothing but a URL isn't exactly enlightening.  :-)

  Some links:

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview (10 Dec 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate (18 Dec 2007) (336 MB)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75ed934c-8423-4386-ad98-36b124a720aa

Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (19 Feb 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60807c3a-8969-4ddf-beb2-8bfac9ed416b

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 via Windows Update (19 Feb 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=114f3599-12af-42b2-aab1-b969a62c68a7

  The last appears to contain a CMD file which just adds a registry patch:

reg delete 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3
/f

reg add 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3
/v RCPreview /t REG_SZ /d 1c667073-b87f-4f52-a479-98c85711d869 /f

  As an aside: I am always amused when the Microsoft Download site
tells me I should install SilverLight, because it works with Firefox,
too, and then offers me an .EXE to download.  On my home Linux PC.

-- Ben

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