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AussieRodney says, April 28th, 2008   

Speed is pretty good. I had my line maxed out at 800 KBps.

Rarst says, April 28th, 2008   

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.

Bruno 'ReX' Barbieri says, April 28th, 2008   

What about Portuguese (Brazil)?

Transcontinental says, April 28th, 2008   

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 !

CoffeePrincess says, April 29th, 2008   

Thank you, downloading a nice 800kbs. So excited.

Windows XP SP3 Official Download Links | Slackerology says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to the public tomorrow. A lot of users have already downloaded the [...]

GrandREV.com » Download Windows XP SP3 via Windows Update, Official Links says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] Thanks ghacks [...]

Meissen says, April 29th, 2008   

Thank you for the SP 3 German link.

Windows XP SP3 is set to release today! at kyleabaker.com says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] you can grab the package yourself! If your interested in the links then you can find them all at GHacks.net! The package itself is ~316mb, but if you don’t want to download all of that then you can [...]

Windows XP SP3 at listapalm v. 2.0 says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] Sin mas que decir les dejo el link al post. [...]

Microsoft rilascia oggi, come promesso, il Service Pack 3 di Windows XP - Geekissimo says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] Source: gHack.net [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Available on Microsoft’s Servers [In Brief] · TechBlogger says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] late. You can grab the 32-bit English-language SP3 here, while other languages are available at the gHacks page. Feel free to beat the download rush, and we’ll update here when SP3 is officially pushed out [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Available | says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] DOWNLOAD HERE [...]

Windows Xp Service Pack 3 | The Simian Downtime Analyst says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] If you have not already gotten an “advance” copy, XP SP3 is officially available to download via Windows Update or from some convenient links here. [...]

Descargar Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) Directamente desde Microsoft. says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] ghacks / tipandtrick SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Descargar Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) Directamente [...]

Getchur Red-hot XP SP3 Right Here! « vashNYC says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] The link above provides a download link for the English version of SP3. If you’re looking for Chinese, German, French, Russian, or Japanese download links, GHacks has you covered. [...]

Windows XP SP3 Released | SolSie.com says, April 29th, 2008   

[...] is available in Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish. Links HERE! [courtesy [...]

Windos XP Service Pack 3: come and get it! | SoloSmallTech says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] Links to the update here, since it won’t hit Windows Update for a day or two, at [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Available on Microsoft’s Servers [Windows XP] · TechBlogger says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] package to carry. We’ll update here when the official downloads are pushed to Windows Update. Official Windows XP Service Pack 3 Download Links [...]

Windows SP3: Eh, doesn’t do anything « The Beneficial Anger says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] has been out for a few weeks. Testers and anxious testers. Downloaded the SP3 file from this nice site. First time I hit a traffic free server, topping 647KB/s. I sure believe that’s my maximum [...]

David says, April 30th, 2008   

Thanks a lot.

Descarga SP3 directamente de los servidores de Microsoft says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] Service Pack 3 (Español) Fuente: gHacks / Arturogoga Comparte este articulo:Estos íconos enlazan con webs de marcadores sociales que [...]

links for 2008-04-30 « Romulo Lopez Cordero says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] Official Windows XP Service Pack 3 Download Links Why there are no pages to it? (tags: download SP3 WinXP xp) [...]

Windows XP SP3 now available « Educcomp Blog says, April 30th, 2008   

[...] Get it here (316mb) [...]

hizard (be) says, April 30th, 2008   

Thx for the link

tlrg says, April 30th, 2008   

thank you for linking. speed is apx. 1,2mbyte/s

sidewalk says, May 1st, 2008   

Thanks for SP3 link

NeoTrinity says, May 1st, 2008   

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.

WildKat says, May 1st, 2008   

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!)

Josh says, May 2nd, 2008   

Downloading it at 2300K, 1min 45seconds.

Disponibile download diretto Service Pack 3 per Windows XP says, May 3rd, 2008   

[...] Service Pack 3 Forse l’ultimo pacchetto di aggiornamento Microsoft per XP. [...]

Diana Boston says, May 3rd, 2008   

1.250mb/s

nice. Thank you!

COOL VIJAY MURTHY says, May 5th, 2008   

Nice one.
Got the original one.
Thanks a lot.
Keep updating the information

Pedro says, May 5th, 2008   

Nice !!!! 1.570 Mb/s

Arto says, May 6th, 2008   

Thanks for link. Went down 4700kbps, 1:08 :) Best so far ;)

Velox says, May 6th, 2008   

thanks a lot for the link! :D :D

stefano says, May 6th, 2008   

what about italian version? was it delayed?

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Available on Microsoft’s Servers [Windows XP] says, May 8th, 2008   

[...] package to carry. We’ll update here when the official downloads are pushed to Windows Update. Official Windows XP Service Pack 3 Download Links [...]

Service Pack 3 | Learn to a [simple] LiFe says, May 9th, 2008   

[...] donlot lain bisa didapat dari ghacks dan tipandtrick. Atau dari [...]

Jaxter says, May 10th, 2008   

i download it
really nice
|| guys you can download DirectX 3D 10 on XP from my website for testing only

Paul says, May 12th, 2008   

Great link, thanks very much for that. Went down at 1.1mb/sec which i was well happy with.

Donoven says, May 14th, 2008   

HAHAHAHAHA!!! All Of U People Have Slow Computers I Got 2.36 mb per sec 1min 19sec

Paul says, May 16th, 2008   

Very good,Donoven. Of course, we’re all very impressed.

Sinisa says, May 18th, 2008   

Hvala na service Pack 3 ! Nema sto vise da se kaze. Hvala jos jednom!

knifemonkey says, May 28th, 2008   

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 :)

sk33t3r says, May 31st, 2008   

HAAA 2.36mb, try 12 mb under 30 seconds bam, downlaoded and ready to install!!!

stephen says, May 31st, 2008   

speed is excellent, maxed out at 2,100 k/s

Official download links for Windows XP Service Pack 3 download « Art Life and Technology says, June 4th, 2008   

[...] Ghacks Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Windows XP SP3: What is all the fuss [...]

amigo says, June 9th, 2008   

2750 kB/s :-P

:( says, June 27th, 2008   

14Kbps ……… :(

el per ve says, June 27th, 2008   

no Mames wey!!! me estoy haciendo una chaketa, y en 3,200Kb en 50 sec… se me salio la leche…

DanieDude says, June 30th, 2008   

Thanks A lot mate for this updated SP3, this would make us updated for someTime atleast !!:)

live_strong says, July 3rd, 2008   

thanks

Microsoft idiot says, July 10th, 2008   

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

Kev-pple says, July 13th, 2008   

get a mac so you dont have to worry about a pice of crap service pack

luvluna says, July 14th, 2008   

Thank you so much. Highly recommended to other users.

the rasx() context » Blog Archive » “Where are the dope Silverlight demos?” and other links… says, July 15th, 2008   

[...] and running Windows XP Service Pack 3. I had trouble finding it as a direct download. From ghacks.net: “Cautious users will be delighted to know that the official download links of service pack 3 [...]

Vat3fair3futr3 says, July 18th, 2008   

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.

farouk says, July 21st, 2008   

thank you very much

Arhk says, July 24th, 2008   

downloading 1.1MB/s
yay

~Mac sux windows is decent & Ubuntu pwns

i have a problem now after installing sp3. - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net says, August 2nd, 2008   

[...] so far without a hitch. Put SP3 on before you do anything more to it. Maybe try downloading here instead of using windows update. __________________ Heatware Rating Check out my Homepage Bad [...]

Mo says, August 7th, 2008   

2000 B/s!! whoooooooahhhhhhhh
yes thats Bytes!!
Whohoo Tanzania!!

(Thnx for the link)

Paulph says, August 9th, 2008   

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

abc says, August 21st, 2008   

IT DIDNOT WORK
THE FILE IS CORRUPTED !!!!!!!!!!1

t3cat5 says, August 25th, 2008   

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.

Demian a says, August 26th, 2008   

Sloooooow… 5,5 kBps average… =/

Aetherius says, August 28th, 2008   

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!

Paul says, August 28th, 2008   

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.

Paul says, August 28th, 2008   

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.

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