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I have question. Where can I find a CD with Windows XP Professional with SP3 and includes all the latest MS Updates? It is taking Hours to use Microsoft Updates to retrieve the updates after installing Win XP Pro SP3

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Bob Wahlen

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No such CD exists. The best you can do is get a CD with SP3 integrated.

See the last post at Installing XP with SP3 Plus All The Updates[/url] for a possible method. Note this is a third party method and you should be very careful in preparing to use it.

If you have a CD with SP3 integrated you can get most/all the post SP3 fixes at Autopatcher[/url].

Also, check out WSUS Offline Update[/url].

Joe

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And it’s time to take special considerations with XP if future use is intended. Make a master image of a completely installed and updated system and save that and use that forever more instead of installing from scratch.
You can even get fancy and get a workstation-level license for an imaging program that can bare metal restore to all XP systems from one master image. That’s what I do now, the one system I did build up from scratch recently confirmed was a big pain that is in comparison.

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Thank you for the suggestion. Can you tell me what imaging software you are using. I have a license for Acronis.

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Thank you for the suggestion. Can you tell me what imaging software you are using. I have a license for Acronis.

Acronis should work perfectly for you. That’s what I use and it works fine.

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I have question. Where can I find a CD with Windows XP Professional with SP3 and includes all the latest MS Updates? It is taking Hours to use Microsoft Updates to retrieve the updates after installing Win XP Pro SP3

Thanks for your help

Bob Wahlen

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Sorry for asking, but do you really want all your contact details publicly available like that?

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Your right I just was not thinking clearly.

Thank you for calling this to my attention

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Your right I just was not thinking clearly.

Thank you for calling this to my attention

You’re welcome. RetiredGeek, one of our moderators, fixed it :).

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Thank you for removing the personal information

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I have used Acronis TI since v 2010, then 2011, and now 2013. The only version that works in Win 8 is 2013 and the new 2014.

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I have Acronis TI V9, 2010 and 2012. Ruirib mentioned a workstation-level license. Is that a special license to do “bare metal restore”?

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I have Acronis TI V9, 2010 and 2012. Ruirib mentioned a workstation-level license. Is that a special license to do “bare metal restore”?

I think my Workstation level mention was done in a thread where the operating system as a server operating system (Windows Server). If this was not the case, please let me know where you found the mention and I will clarify it.

All the regular versions of Acronis can do bare-metal restorationg for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, depending on the version. With 2012 you can handle XP, Vista and 7. 2013 and 2014 can handle all versions and also different types of partitions. So, for XP, the versions you own will do fine.

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The bare metal license is the Plus Pack for everything up to V 2013. V2014 is the standard and premium, premium having the same properties as the Plus Pack in earlier versions.

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I said workstation-level just to state that it’s not a standard feature of any free or home version for the most part. I use EasuUS ToDo and there it is a specific feature of the workstation license.

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I said workstation-level just to state that it’s not a standard feature of any free or home version for the most part. I use EasuUS ToDo and there it is a specific feature of the workstation license.

Ah, that was you then :). I thought the mention had been done elsewhere.

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I use EaseUS Todo Workstation (version 5.8) on 2 computers, it’s loaded with features. Version 6 is even better, having all of the support for Windows 8.1.

It is often offered at promo pricing at around $28USD, one simply needs to sign up for their promotional offerings by visiting the EaseUS site, or registering when installing an app such as EaseUS Partition Master Home. I receive at least one weekly email from the company.

Support is fantastic, with fast response times & there is also a support forum. For instance, I had an issue with upgrading from 5.6 to 5.8, it was fixed inside of 2 hours. Updates within the same version (currently 6) are at no cost to the customer.

Like Acronis, WinPE is built into EaseUS Todo Workstation (hence the huge 200MB download), one has 2 options to create images outside of the Windows environment. First, it can create a WinPE ISO to create a rescue/backup CD, or Flash drive (those 1GB SDHC cards works well too), secondly one can activate PreOS, which adds an entry to the boot options.

It is also great for cloning to SSD’s, there is the option to check to optimize for SSD, which will ensure partition alignment & greater success of booting the 1st time w/o the need of other tools. Though with any such operation, this isn’t 100% guaranteed, but has performed flawlessly the 3-4 times that I used the clone from HDD to SSD function.

I always keep the 1st backup taken after installing & updating a newly installed OS, after defrag and a virus scan with the ESET Online Scanner, but before installing other apps. It’s optimized to work with IE, but there’s also a downloadable version that can be saved to scan other computers with & can be removed after scan, though it consumes no resources when not used. Keeping this 1st image of the computer can give anyone a clean or “bare bones” install of their OS in much less time. Plus w/o apps installed, they can be installed fresh, rather than upgrading them possibly years old.

These 1st backups, I keep on a separate HDD to prevent possible deletion, as EaseUS by default will only retain a certain number of images, though this setting can be changed. By keeping these critical disk images on a separate HDD, these type of accidents shouldn’t happen. I have a partition for each computer on this HDD for extra safety & also image that HDD when another image is added.

Note that I’m not employed by EaseUS, it’s just that I’ve have great results with their software, which does have a money back guarantee.

Cat

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I have question. Where can I find a CD with Windows XP Professional with SP3 and includes all the latest MS Updates? It is taking Hours to use Microsoft Updates to retrieve the updates after installing Win XP Pro SP3

Thanks for your help

Bob Wahlen

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Once you do all of the updates, it will be quick each day to keep up with new ones. There won’t be that many new ones, because I don’t believe that Microsoft is still supporting XP.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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Once you do all of the updates, it will be quick each day to keep up with new ones. There won’t be that many new ones, because I don’t believe that Microsoft is still supporting XP.

XP support won’t be over until 2014, so XP is actively supported by Microsoft, patch wise, just like the other more recent OSes.

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Same here with EaseUS, between 30 and 35 successful restores/clonings to Acers, HPs and Dells primarily, one failure only and that was a time out failure; never got started for some reason. I go smaller disk to bigger, bigger to smaller, HDs to SSDs and SSDs to HDs and most of the time I restore to completely different hardware so ToDo Workstation is getting a more stressful workout than the traditional image and restore of the same system.

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You can use something like Nlite to slipstream the updates. This is the only update pack I could find the last one I did http://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/5143-addon-onepiece-xp-post-sp3-aio-update-pack-v740/ The problem is now it’s to big to fit on a CD.
Joe

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