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#1: Win XP Pro Author: SixFour,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:03 pm
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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
#2: Re: Win XP Pro Author: UFANS,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:10 pm
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Just go out to Microsoft and download SP2 or SP3 install then update.


SP2

SP3

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#3: Re: Win XP Pro Author: tet, Location: Washington PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:14 pm
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Windows Update should do the trick.  Though it has been a while since I used XP.
#4: Re: Win XP Pro Author: UFANS,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:16 pm
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I think you need to have at lease SP2 to update with Windows Update now.
#5: Re: Win XP Pro Author: tet, Location: Washington PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:31 pm
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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.
#6: Re: Win XP Pro Author: SixFour,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:34 pm
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Appreciate it.

Thank you both
#7: Re: Win XP Pro Author: SixFour,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:38 pm
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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
#8: Re: Win XP Pro Author: tet, Location: Washington PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:43 pm
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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.
#9: Re: Win XP Pro Author: UFANS,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:44 pm
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Sorry the link for SP2 was for Office XP, I have corrected it.
#10: Re: Win XP Pro Author: SixFour,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:06 pm
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UFANS wrote (View Post):

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


thank you sir
#11: Re: Win XP Pro Author: SixFour,  PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:05 pm
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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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