Microsoft announced that this will be their last service pack(SP) for Windows XP as they are trying to move people to their Vista Operating System (OS).  This last SP has addressed many things about the OS that most people probably didn’t even know were broken.  According to Microsoft’s website, support for XP will end in January 2009.  This basically means that free security fixes will not be available through Windows Update.  Time to start planning those Vista upgrades which unfortunately may come with hardware upgrades to not only your computers but also other peripherals that may be on your network.

The easiest way to download SP3 for XP is through Windows updates.  In most cases you can click on START>ALL PROGRAMS>WINDOWS UPDATE to manually force the update.

Doug