Comments on: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3-ZWTiSO

By now I believe most of us already know that just as I had suspected, this was a homemade solution (a great effort I might add but not good enough) hence should be avoided.
@136 Captain Planet
“And contrary to popular belief, UNLIKE Vista, XP w/ SP3 STILL requires a key to install. Guess the rumors were wrong!”
This is not a rumor my friend, in case u were not informed, read on….

“As with previous service packs, no product key is requested or required when installing Windows XP SP3 using the update package available through Microsoft Update”, Microsoft informed. “The Windows Product Activation changes in Windows XP SP3 are not related to the Windows Vista Key Management Service (KMS). This update affects only new operating system installations from integrated source media. This update affects the installation media only and is not a change to how activation works in Windows XP.”
“As in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Vista, users can now complete operating system installation without providing a product key during a full, integrated installation of Windows XP SP3. The operating system will prompt the user for a product key later as part of Genuine Advantage. As with previous service packs, no product key is requested or required when installing Windows XP SP3 using the update package available through Microsoft Update”, Microsoft revealed.

Read the rest at: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Evolution-of-the-Windows-XP-SP3-Activation-Architecture-74947.shtml

Now in case you are wondering \why this ISO didn’t behave in that way, the answer is right in the beginning of this post: this is NOT the real stuff, you also know that M$ hasn’t started offering the whole XpSP3 OS milestone build ISO yet, only the SP3 standalone package, which this group has intigrated to create this homemade ISO where installe rroutines are still the old one.

Again read this for a clearer idea: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Do-Not-Download-XP-SP3-RTM-Build-5512-Integrated-Slipstream-ISO-Image-84397.shtml

By: Wicked

Wicked — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:31:56 +0000

… in eth0 we trust.
Still waiting for their rls of XP with SP3

By: Captain Planet

Captain Planet — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:39:37 +0000

Time for some clarity.

This release is Windows XP Professional Edition with SP3 (RTM, Build 5512) Integrated – VOLUME LICENSE EDITION (Corporate, for you idiots).

Any non-blacklisted “VLK” (Volume License Key) will work for this release (try one of the many keys in the NFO). There is no WPA (Windows Product Activation).

This release has the SAME MD5 AND SHA-1 hashes as the WZor release (WZTiSO).

It’s not yet known whether or not this release is straight off of MSDN. I’ve talked to a few friends with MSDN and last I heard, there was not an official “XP Pro with SP3″ ISO up on MSDN yet. This may be just an XP Pro SP0 VOL release with SP3 slipstreamed onto it.

I installed this release on a VM with ZERO problems. Runs fast and stable.

And contrary to popular belief, UNLIKE Vista, XP w/ SP3 STILL requires a key to install. Guess the rumors were wrong!

One more thing, SP3 DOES NOT CONTAIN WMP 11 or IE 7!!!!!!!

Enjoy this fine release.

By: john_gilbert

john_gilbert — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:36:18 +0000

does anyone have the “Volume License Product Key”?

By: rick5446

rick5446 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:46:42 +0000

can’t get this to boot

By: Diddlee_Dee

Diddlee_Dee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:52:11 +0000

Really chaps, don’t know why you stress yourself, just simply purchase a genuine copy of XP and upgrade Legitimately, while safe in the knowledge that all is as it should be, and you’ll fill Mr. Gates pockets a little more.

By: tuen21

tuen21 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:03:41 +0000

how do I install WMP 11 and IE 7?

By: Totalbalance

Totalbalance — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:20:14 +0000

@123

Im not really sure if its supposed to Upgrade to IE7 or WMP11 by default. I have run the prev betas and none of them did (atleast not on my pc)and they were downloaded directly from the ms downloads site. It was always IE 6 and WMP 10.