There is a little more to it - but not so you'd notice. I installed the release candidate 
about 3 weeks ago (after a thorough mirror of my system to an external drive - I 
should add) - and so far no problems, but no noticable improvements either.

Apparently - the final version won't be forced through updates for some time to come 
- so the choice is yours. I'm neither recommending or otherwise - just trying to 
inform - but solid as a rock here.



Steve

Athlon 64 x2 4200 @ 2.2 GHz, 1 Gig PC6400, Sapphire RX1950GT, Abit KN9Ultra, 250Gig 
SATA HD, LG1718S, and various bits and pieces plugged in here and there.




On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 11:31 am, Larry wrote:

>Curb your enthusiasm. XP SP3 is just basically a "roll up" of all the previous updates 

>since SP2. The main reason for it's existence is to make available a whole new "pool" 

>of product keys for system builders. Somehow (don't ask me how) MS is running low 

>on installation key #s and this is the easiest way for them to avoid the problem. 

>Secondly, the version out now is a beta, a so-called Release Candidate. If one has 

>kept up with updates I don't see where installing SP3 would buy you anything at 
all. 

>When it's oficially released though, I will get it on CD so that when I do future 

>clean installs of XP I can run it instead of installing SP2 and then another 80+ 

>updates after that. SP3 will do it all at once.

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