Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 07:08 UTC
Windows Windows XP SP3, the final service pack for Windows XP, was released to manufacturing a few weeks ago, and popped up on Windows Update about a week later. Even though the service pack is rather light on actual new features, it still caused a few problems for some users. Despite these problems, some benchmarks show that while SP3 delivers better performance compared to XP SP2, Microsoft seems to have solved many performance issues with Vista, turning the company's latest OS offering into the better choice for gaming - according to ExtremeTech.
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It's more responsive, for the moment
by bousozoku on Tue 13th May 2008 07:36 UTC
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2006-01-23

I expected the update to be larger, but it seemed that it was only about 66 MB, which is small indeed, though I've kept things up to date.

I did notice more responsiveness, but the installation mentioned something about rebuilding the Registry, which could have fixed things that were broken.

I just hope that it doesn't come to bite me later.