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![]() I still do think that, someday, someone somewhere should create a nicely-packaged unofficial SP 3, so that perhaps one can update a live installation, rather than slipstreaming the updates into a new installer CD (a somewhat tedious and error-prone task for the inexperienced), but absent that, this will suffice. I had XP 圆4 working very smoothly, but I wanted to use some hardware that only supports 7 and up, so, here I am. After applying all the updates, it was almost uselessly slow until I disabled the Spectre and Meltdown patches (not best security practice, I know), but now it's only a little slow, particularly at starting up and launching programs I attribute that mostly to the fact that it's installed on a spinning hard disk, though, so I can live with it (SSDs are so much faster!) It turns out that 7 actually does what I want better, if only by virtue of the fact that it can support newer, bug-fixed versions of the programs I wanted to use. ![]() ![]() Recently, I did break down and install 7 on the same computer, so now I have both. Now, extract all the files from the file to a secured folder. And also whether the ISO file does is compatible with the users as well. Please do Check that if that ISO file is compatible with your platform, either 32 bit or 64 bit. Most importantly, I was able to preserve the OEM activation, so it behaves just as the untouched CD would, which is good because activating an OEM copy for which I don't have a product key is a pain. The last service packs for other versions of Windows include Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, and Windows 2000 SP4. Downloading the Windows XP SP3 file which needed to be downloaded by just visiting the Official website of Microsoft. ![]() NET and WMP updates wouldn't slipstream (nor would WMP11 itself), so I had to install those by hand after installing, which was mildly annoying, but far better than what would've been had I not made the updated installer, since it was maybe like 12 or 15 updates instead of 200+). I followed the instructions at the RyanVM forums, added the latest 2019 post-EOS updates, and slipstreamed most of the whole thing into an OEM Dell XP 圆4 CD, and it works! (a handful of. OK, forgot to update here that I managed to succeed!
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