After many many months of beta testing Service Pack 3, the official stable Windows XP SP3 is finally here! Many tech websites announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to manufacturers (RTM) yesterday. I never post about beta updates or patches on operating systems because I wouldn’t advice you to install something that is not stable for your system. This time I am confident that the final version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 is here, and I am sharing this news with you.
Although the XP SP3 final version has been released to manufacturers, we, the end users can only download via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center on 29th April. If you can’t wait until the 29th of April, here’s how to be one of the first end users to install and use the final stable version of XP SP3.
A very well known and reputable cracking group Zero Waiting Time (ZWT) managed to obtain the XP SP3 RTM and released it to the “scene” with the name MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.XP.SERVICE.PACK.3.v5.1.2600.5512.RTM.ENGLISH-WZT
. The XP SP3 RTM final version first surfaced at ThePirateBay about 12 hours ago and was uploaded by a person named bgreen.
Here are some information on the Windows XP Service Pack 3 setup file:
Filename: WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe Language: English Only Size: 331,805,736 bytes in 1 file SFV: C411A9DA MD5: BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58 SHA1: C81472F7EEEA2ECA421E116CD4C03E2300EBFDE4
After spending about 30 minutes to install XP Service Pack 3, I didn’t notice anything new after logging in except that it asked me whether to turn on the Automatic Updates. Well, Microsoft did state that SP3 is mostly a security, performance and stability update. So don’t expect any funky features in this release.
Some people accuse team ZWT of releasing keygenerators and cracks with trojans but they do not do that. These groups have reputations which they are not going to tarnish it by embedding some lame trojans in their releases. Usually those files are tampered by other people who.
I am sorry because I cannot provide the download link to Windows XP Service Pack 3 RTM final because Microsoft will definitely shut down this website. You can do a simple search on some of the “important” keywords that I’ve mentioned in this article. It is already available at torrent and rapidshare. Remember to check the HASH so you won’t download a modified one. Here’s how to check the HASH if you don’t know how. Download VisualHash, extract and run VisualHash.exe. Make sure you’re at the Hash Files tab, right click, select Add File… and locate WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe. Click the Compute Hashes button and wait for a few seconds. Refer the MD5 and SHA-1 values with the above. If it matches, then the file hasn’t been tampered.
Good luck and enjoy the new Windows XP Service Pack 3!