All right, windows XP service pack 3 comes out (you can wait until the official final release or find a download link in my previous blog). Now, if you have an old Windows XP installation CD, for instance, I have one XP HOME SP2 with my laptop, you can make a new SP3 installation CD without the hassles to go over the update procedure.
Procedures:
1) copy all files in the original installation to hard drive, for instance, C:\XPSETUP
2) download the sp3. Let's say the name is sp3.exe
3) in a terminal command prompt( for instance, by running cmd from Start->Run...), run
"sp3.exe /integrate:C:\XPSETUP"
4) find a boot disk for windows XP, for instance, w2ksect.bin in wxp10.zip. (OK, this one doesn't work. Another method is to download ISO buster and use it to extract the bootdisk image from the original installation CD.)
5) in C:\XPSETUP, you may notice files names "WIN51", "WIN51IC.SP2". Make a copy of "WIN51IC.SP2" and rename it to "WIN51IC.SP3".(it actually has been automatically created by the integrate process!)
6) burn CD with your favorite burning software. For instance, I use Nero. Create a bootable CD, set the boot image file, create a label like WXPSP3HOME, pick data mode 1, ISO9660+Joliet, move all contents in C:\XPSETUP to the target CD project. And, burn!
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