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Just installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 from Microsoft’s Servers. It’s not up on Windows Update yet, but this LifeHacker post posts a link to download the exe file from the Microsoft Servers.

The download itself for the english version is around 300Mb in size, which didn’t take long to download. Usually I wait a while before downloading anything Microsoft release, but the fact that I was really bored made me decide to install it now and see what happens. Another reason for downloading it early is that by tomorrow the Microsoft servers may be a lot slower due to the fact that they are serving up 300Mb of Service Pack 3 to everyone at the same time.

I haven’t really noticed any big changes from Service Pack 2. I think primarily SP3 is basically a collection of a lot of hotfixes etc. I do feel that Windows is a lot more responsive and the start menu and right context menus pop up almost instantly but I may just be imagining it.

It didn’t destory my Windows install so I guess it can’t be bad. I doubt I’ll notice any changes but if I find anything interesting I’ll post here.

Oh yeah and I have Iron Man Fever. I. Can’t. Wait.

Peace