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Windows xp's future and SP3 Q's

mentalcrisis00

mentalcrisis00

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Hello Everyone

I've been running Vista on my Dell laptop for about 3 months steady now and have been more or less happy with it. But lately I've been having a few intolerable problems with it and seeming XP SP3 is out I figured I'd reinstall Win XP. I have a couple or questions though.

I have a really old install disk of windows XP with service pack 1 and since about 2003 I haven't been able to use windows update because it won't pass the validation. Is there a way I can call Microsoft to remedy this? It is a retail copy of windows but it doesn't ask me for activation, or is the install key just dead?

Is the system builders 5512 version of SP3 stable? I know people are having network problems with it but I thought I'd ask to perhaps avoid complications. I do have RC2 on my desktop and haven't had any noticeable problems with it.

Is Microsoft intending on severing support for Windows XP after SP3 is perfected for the general public? I just wonder because if I can't manage to get windows update to work I'd like to know whether MS will even be putting out anymore updates for it after this year.

My final question is about Nlite, I tried it once before but couldn't get SP3 to slipstream correctly. I've heard that one should slipstream SP2 first then SP3, is this true? If I could just slipstream SP3 5512 and not have to worry about windows update I'd be a happy camper.

Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome
 
Microsoft has a free support forum for Activation issues. Go to http://microsoft.com and do a search and you'll find it. Also, support for Windows Updates is free. MS has various tools and techniques for helping you determine why you can't get updates.
 
more power to you for switching to xp, however it is difficult nowadays to put the older OS onto the newer systems, regardless of whether or not vista is pissing you off.

You basically know what to do. get your standard xp pro iso, slipstream sp2 onto it, then sp3 using nlite. 5512 is RTM. If you need the intel storage matrix SATA drivers for an ich8 mobile chipset, which 99% of today's laptops need, then you need to also slip that onto the sp3 disk.

Good luck.
 
Ah I think I got it, Download intel matrix storage manage, use command prompt to extract the .exe file, run nlite and integrate service packs, then load the inf file in the extracted intel folder, select all the AHCI types and click next. When I enable AHCI in BIOS and run the slipstreamed winXP disk windows seems to load fine and detects the partition on my laptops hard drive.

thanks for the suggestions everyone
 
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