After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The service pack, undoubtedly the last for the aged ...

Here comes yet another SP3 lament. As an individual end user, I try to keep my laptops up to date via Windows Update, or Microsoft Update, as appropriate. As I have mentioned previously, both my S6510 ...

As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been uploaded to Microsoft's servers. Currently, the final build is only available on the download.windowsupdate domain in the ...

The Windows Vista and Windows 7 DVDs come with System Recovery Options, a comprehensive set of recovery tools used to restore the operating system. While Windows XP SP3 CD doesn't offer the same ...

The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP’s still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any ...

Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has ...

The latest service pack for Windows XP will be pushed to Automatic Update at 7a.m. EDT on July 10 The vague timetable that Microsoft gave Monday for pushing out Windows XP SP3 to most users got ...

Last week, an XP SP3 issue that causes an endless reboot loop with certain AMD-based computers came to light. There are two causes for the endless reboot issue, but the main one involves an Intel ...

Nearly three weeks after security vendor Symantec released a free tool to clean up PCs crippled by the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) update, Microsoft issued a fix that should reestablish lost ...

Microsoft's Windows Vista predecessor, Windows XP, last week saw the release of Service Pack 3 (SP3) beta for a select group of testers. The latest SP3 beta is labeled as build 3205 and is a rather ...

Microsoft fixed a critical 'endless reboot' vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished SP3 weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation ...