The Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to the public tomorrow. A lot of users have already downloaded the service pack from various unofficial locations like download portals and the Bittorrent P2P network. Many users however were very cautious and decided to wait until the service pack would be available through official Microsoft channels. Tomorrow users can download the service pack by using Windows Update.
Downloads will surely be rather slow after the release and it does make sense to download the service pack 3 for Windows XP early. Cautious users will be delighted to know that the official download links of service pack 3 have been revealed and that it is as of now possible to download the Service Pack 3 directly from Microsoft servers. (Thanks to Tip and Trick)
Available are service pack releases for various languages. All for 32-bit systems only though. The languages that are available are English, German, Russian, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. All downloads are directly from Windows Updates. If you have been wary before downloading the service pack there is nothing more to fear by using this official download.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 English
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Simplified Chinese
Windows XP Service Pack 3 German
Windows XP SP3 French
Windows XP SP3 Russian
Windows XP SP3 Japanese
Download speed is fine. I’m getting about 330 Kilobyte per second currently.
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- Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta Download
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- Download Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
Speed is pretty good. I had my line maxed out at 800 KBps.
SHA1 hash (included in these links) is identical to the leaked SP3 I have. Just in case people are worrying if they should they redownload it.
What about Portuguese (Brazil)?
Et voilà : 309.20Mb on a traffic-free highway!
Now this is really nice, thanks a lot Martin :)
The XPSP3 has landed. Data is nominal !
Thank you, downloading a nice 800kbs. So excited.
Thank you for the SP 3 German link.
Thanks a lot.
Thx for the link
thank you for linking. speed is apx. 1,2mbyte/s
Thanks for SP3 link
Hi all,
SP3 cannot be found on M$ Servers because of the last minute glitch in the SP3 : The guilty patch is the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, application that manages online sales with certificates and stuff.
Microsoft has decided to remove the SP3 from download servers and to delay (one more time is not a surprise) the final SP3 version.
Have a nice day.
NeoTrinity.
Thanks for the SP3 link. The English link is working just fine for me even though it was delayed for RMS. It is coming through at 425K but I’m just glad to be able to pull it down. — (It just finished and all looks good! Thanks!)
Downloading it at 2300K, 1min 45seconds.
1.250mb/s
nice. Thank you!
Nice one.
Got the original one.
Thanks a lot.
Keep updating the information
Nice !!!! 1.570 Mb/s
Thanks for link. Went down 4700kbps, 1:08 :) Best so far ;)
thanks a lot for the link! :D :D
what about italian version? was it delayed?
i download it
really nice
|| guys you can download DirectX 3D 10 on XP from my website for testing only
Great link, thanks very much for that. Went down at 1.1mb/sec which i was well happy with.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! All Of U People Have Slow Computers I Got 2.36 mb per sec 1min 19sec
Very good,Donoven. Of course, we’re all very impressed.
Hvala na service Pack 3 ! Nema sto vise da se kaze. Hvala jos jednom!
about time, sp2 is so outdated, i’m glad that m$ is still updating windows xp even though if I prefer a different system altogether :)
HAAA 2.36mb, try 12 mb under 30 seconds bam, downlaoded and ready to install!!!
speed is excellent, maxed out at 2,100 k/s
2750 kB/s :-P
14Kbps ……… :(
no Mames wey!!! me estoy haciendo una chaketa, y en 3,200Kb en 50 sec… se me salio la leche…
Thanks A lot mate for this updated SP3, this would make us updated for someTime atleast !!:)
thanks
Hi I download it and happend at 5Mb per sec and finish in 27 sec hahahhaa but Sp3 iS dUMB AND SLOWED MY PC DOWN AND LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT MICRSOFT MADE IT SO THAT YOU WOULD WANT VISTA
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO THINK IT WAS GOOD shame shame shame
get a mac so you dont have to worry about a pice of crap service pack
Thank you so much. Highly recommended to other users.
Came fast enough… at peak time UK, too.
“Kev-pple says, July 13th, 2008
get a mac so you dont have to worry about a pice of crap service pack”
You [severe flame self-censored], the VERY FIRST time I did any systems admin on a Mac I found a bug that research told me required an ‘update’ (akin to a service pack / Windows Update download). This bug required my whole Wireless Access Point to be lowered in security in order to accommodate the Mac, even though it was an obvious function of the software and not hard to predict and design properly in the first release. Businesses requiring security would not tolerate this level of performance from expensive hardware and supposedly well-designed software.
So stop the bullshit Mac-evangelism, it makes you look a retard. Any and all software requires improvements. The criticism of Microsoft should be reserved for the updates that are out there which are NOT available for general release, and require payment (which you then rely on the MS operative to decide is to be refunded) for a support session just to check they’re correct. That and the huge bugs (P2P Netbios share browsing, on ANY version of Windows, working efficiently, anyone?) that it just refuses to fix.
I do hate Microsoft on occasion, and think they’re arrogant SOBs, too. But two wrongs don’t make a right.
thank you very much
downloading 1.1MB/s
yay
~Mac sux windows is decent & Ubuntu pwns
2000 B/s!! whoooooooahhhhhhhh
yes thats Bytes!!
Whohoo Tanzania!!
(Thnx for the link)
Went down at 2.1mbps, not bad for a Socket A AMD system. Installed 1st time with no problems, thanks. :)
But make sure that if you’re using IE8 Beta, uninstall it before you download Sp3 and reinstall it afterwards if you want to keep using it or you won’t be able to roll back to IE7 if you’re having problems with IE8.
Macs suck, Linux needs an extra download every time you want to do something, and Xp Pro Sp3 just works as an OS should. :-p
IT DIDNOT WORK
THE FILE IS CORRUPTED !!!!!!!!!!1
Well installed the sp3 and very upset to see that for some reason Microsoft excluded the address bar as an option in the start taskbar, I used it all the time. And also now when I goto open with to set my prefs for video player to view a file it opens notepad rather than the program I select.
Sloooooow… 5,5 kBps average… =/
well.. as a couple of guys said before, get a mac. it simply works.go take a look if you don’t believe me
i’m using it all day long without issues, and i do use windows too, just for the games.
the guys who complain about security issues regarding os x, maybe it’s because you don’t know how to use a computer… trust me, unix is rock stable
go take your shit elsewhere but not here. usualy the guys who can’t stand up macs are the poor nerds who can’t afford one..maybe that’s why they’re being so repulsive about the technology ;) it’s to expensive 4 them:):))
boo ya!
If Macs are so damned good why does Windows have around 90% of the market compared to Mac’s 5%? You’re the one who knows nothing about computers if you honestly think Macs are ‘better’. I think you’ll find most people
have got more sense than to waste money on something that’s around twice the price of a PC and not as good.
And it’s the stupid Mac evangelists who should be taking their shit elsewhere. This site is for Windows users wanting official SP3 download links, nothing to do with Mac users.
Macs are indeed great, they are used by most professionals in the graphics, movie and image making industry. That’s an accepted fact. It’s also a fact that a lot of Mac users appear to be extremely annoying individuals who make snobbish and unhelpful comments about people who don’t use them. Some kind of insecurity issue there perhaps?
Thank you foe the Japanese link
where is the polish language sp3??
already have it need speed version