Click No thanks and then Continue and the file will be downloaded to your hard disk. Click the Download button and, when prompted, select Proceed with this download and click Next. STEP 1 - DOWNLOAD XP SP3įirst, you'll need to download the Windows XP SP3 Network Installation Package, which is the standalone install for XP. Finally, only use Windows XP to follow these steps using a different version of Windows will break the install disk so that the installation won't recognise your CD key. You'll need to have your original Windows XP installation disc to hand before you start. The process is called slipstreaming, which is officially supported by Microsoft.
Fortunately, there's a simple way to get round this, by using a few tools to create a brand-new installation disc that has all of the updates and patches pre-loaded. There's still a worry, though, that at some point in the future Microsoft will remove this ability, dropping all of the updates. This means that you could perform a fresh installation of XP, using your original installation disc, then use Windows Update to install all of the updates and patches, up to the date that support ended. Microsoft has told us that all existing XP updates will still be available to download after support has officially ended.
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