I have an old XP pro disk that is SP1. I HATE having to do the internet update and downloading through windows all those damn updates. There was a site that had them but I lost the link a long time ago. Anyone know where I can download them?

I'm about to install my 1TB drive and install a fresh copy of XP pro (yes I have a legal disk), but it takes FOREVER to update windows.

 

start menu -> all programs -> windows update (at the top)

or

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

 

Is reading hard?

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Just download them both - burn a dvd - Install SP1, then run these. Not *too* bad.

You can get a winXP sp2 install cd, and I'm waiting for winxp sp3 to show up in my MSDN. I can't offer you my download of it - but I know if you look in the usual places you'll find it as an .iso. Just make sure you don't download one with a VL in the name (volume licence) as it won't work on your computer.

ALSO if you have an OEM version of XP, then your key won't work with a non-oem winXP installation. This is typical of a vendor installed XP. In that unfortuneate case, you'd have to install with the WinXP cd that came with the computer, then do the updates.

Enjoy.

 

Service Pack 3

http://www.demonoid.com/files/downlo...593261/1467294

 

More on volume licence if you are interested... when I setup computers in a lab I start with one machine. I install the volume licence version of XP, the software for the lab, the user preferences... then I sys-prep the machine to put it into a pre-use state. Basically what you get when you buy a computer from HP. The first time you start a sys-prep'ed machine it asks for your name, location, etc... or in my case - I have a script that does that for me.

Anyhow - volume licence means that the key is good for a certain number of installs - so you can install the exact same copy on all of a lab's computers. Very handy - as I can setup one machine, copy the sys-prep'ed image onto all of them (network boot) and do a whole lab in a few hours.

 

Mines a retail "oem" disk. I've had to use it several times from crashes. If it ever says that I've used up my installs I just call M$ and they give me a new key.

 

That's not exactly the issue. There are a few flavours of WinXP. There is the brought in a box version. There is the 'came with the computer version' (OEM), and then there is the VL version I have for lab computers at work.

The OEM Key will only work with an OEM install disk. I have run into this problem when I pop in my box version cd, install WinXP, and then type in their serial... and face-palm when I read "OEM" on the sticker.

As for multiple installs - I too have had good luck calling MS. I call them, explain the hardware changes (if they ask) and they give me the confirmation code.

 

Its a retail version that was just the disk (oem). I build my pc's.

 

Gonna get this bitch going. See ya'll in an hour or so.