So what do you expect from sp3...
I heard that there will be a new gui...

Hmm, a new gui. I think that means that even less people will switch to Vista. What I do hear is that it should be faster.

Oh, and it seems like it is avaliable on the web, perhaps I'll try it: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/09/...p3-leaked/

You guys can download the Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en

Hello and welcome to the forum Chris. :) Anyway, thanks for the link, I'm now downloading it for my XP laptop, and will tell you how it goes in a few hours.

Cheers,
Matt

I have it installed on three PC's right now. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference. One PC has XP Home on it and the other two have XP Pro on them. One of the XP Pro machines has hyper threading, but it doesn't seem to make use of it and the machine doesn't run 10% faster. If it makes the PC more secure, I will still take the update.

This post was last modified: 01-04-2008 01:42 PM by chris.

Well, on my laptop running XP MCE 2005, it does seem faster now, though I'm not sure exactly how much. As for a new GUI, I haven't seen any, though this is only a RC, the final might be different, though I don't think so.

But anyway, it sped up my laptop enough to make it from too annoying to use to usable.

did you try to look there where you can change from xp look to windows2000???

Well, I looked and didn't find any new stuff there. I don't see anything about it here either: http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/windows-xp...-included/

Im still at SP2, and i think i will stay at SP2 or is it beter to switch to SP3?

Well, SP3 does have some bugs, so if you don't want to have any issues at all, you should stay with SP2. However, SP3 did seem pretty stable when I used it, so at least it shouldn't cause that many problems, and if it does create any problems, you can uninstall it, so I think it's worth a shot.