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Win XP Pro

Joined: Feb 10, 2012
Posts: 1099
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:03 pm
Hello all,

I was given an older Dell which I reformated and plan on using as a glorified word processor. I would however like to update the service packs. Microsoft no longer supports XP and their site is useless for any downloads for SP 1,2 .

Does anyone have a link to where I can update XP Pro?

Thank you in advance.

SixFour






Joined: Sep 01, 2009
Posts: 2881
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:10 pm
Just go out to Microsoft and download SP2 or SP3 install then update.


SP2

SP3








Last edited by UFANS on Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:43 pm; edited 2 times in total
Joined: Mar 24, 2009
Posts: 2011
Location: Washington
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:14 pm
Windows Update should do the trick.  Though it has been a while since I used XP.

Joined: Sep 01, 2009
Posts: 2881
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:16 pm
I think you need to have at lease SP2 to update with Windows Update now.






Joined: Mar 24, 2009
Posts: 2011
Location: Washington
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:31 pm
This is probably what you want then.  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/service-packs
 

Though I might suggest instaling Ubuntu, or even better, Linux Mint.  Both will run much better on an older machine.

Joined: Feb 10, 2012
Posts: 1099
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:34 pm
Appreciate it.

Thank you both






Joined: Feb 10, 2012
Posts: 1099
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:38 pm

tet wrote (View Post):

This is probably what you want then.  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/service-packs


Though I might suggest instaling Ubuntu, or even better, Linux Mint.  Both will run much better on an older machine.


Tet,

Are the drivers an issue using this two diff OS's. i.e. my video driver and network card.

thanks






Joined: Mar 24, 2009
Posts: 2011
Location: Washington
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:43 pm

SixFour wrote (View Post):

tet wrote (View Post):

This is probably what you want then.  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/service-packs


Though I might suggest instaling Ubuntu, or even better, Linux Mint.  Both will run much better on an older machine.


Tet,

Are the drivers an issue using this two diff OS's. i.e. my video driver and network card.

thanks


Depends on what drivers you need.  Most stuff should work right out of the box.  It's no worse than the difference between XP and Win7 really. Linux isn't the scary beast some people make it out to be.  In fact the learning curve on a lot of distros is very small.

Joined: Sep 01, 2009
Posts: 2881
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:44 pm
Sorry the link for SP2 was for Office XP, I have corrected it.






Joined: Feb 10, 2012
Posts: 1099
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:06 pm

UFANS wrote (View Post):

Sorry the link for SP2 was for Office XP, I have corrected it.


thank you sir






Joined: Feb 10, 2012
Posts: 1099
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:05 pm

tet wrote (View Post):

This is probably what you want then.  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/service-packs


Though I might suggest instaling Ubuntu, or even better, Linux Mint.  Both will run much better on an older machine.


Thank you






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