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However, by the end of the first week of the updates release, the list of software conflicts neared 50 and users began pleading with Microsoft to shut off the Windows automatic update so they could buy more time to prepare their networks and test the OS.
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Thats to be expected, even though release was delayed more than a month to fix other bugs. In advance of the release, Microsoft warned that some programs might not work once the new OS was installed (including Microsoft products, which would need to be you guessed it upgraded in order to work properly). But in the name of security (or sloppy software design), Microsoft created a lot of headaches. The new release was designed to plug myriad security holes that existed in earlier versions of Windows and Internet Explorer. The link for XP3 is still valid.Earlier this month, Microsoft released its much-anticipated Service Pack 2 for the Windows XP operating system. I strongly recommend building your own offline update archive if you think you need itĪs of 2017, WSUS offline update v9.21 can't seem to download XP patches. Of course, this link is likely to die at some point, and I have no XP boxen to test it from. It also has lovely logging, and lists of file locations and it lists as the location for windows XP SP3. This is the best option since it should get your system as patched up as possible, and lets you do so even if XP patches are no longer hosted if you already downloaded them. This should get your XP box completely up to date, and as of mid december 2016 (when I'm posting it), it seems to update still. Since its downloading the updates directly from MS, and gets the full/offline installers and automatically applies them, these are the official updates and you don't need to rely on windows update for at least the initial update.
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You need version 9.21 or older as its the last version that supported XP. I use an archive I built from an outdated version of WSUS offline update - in case I need to stand up a windows XP system.
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