On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Carl Denk wrote: > What are the pros and cons of SP3 for XP, di I hear somewhere where Ms > was tightening the noose? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&displaylang=en Normally as all the service packs, a small minority of user will have problems. SP2 breaks a lot of things but SP3 should have less impact than SP2. One good thing about SP3 is that it include SP1/SP2. So you do not need even to have SP1 in order to install SP3. But I guess most of the people should have SP2 installed, or at least SP1. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist