Trying to install Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer

[b11_]

Trying to install Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer but I can not use windows update

because the computer never had a modem. What other way can I get a Wxp SP3

for _one_ computer? I download at a public library then take an external

drive home.

 

[Daave]

b11_ wrote:

> Trying to install Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer but I can not use

> windows update because the computer never had a modem. What other way

> can I get a Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer? I download at a public

> library then take an external drive home.



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displaylang=en



You can use this on any number of computers, even if the number is one.

;-)

 

[Ǝøçεl]

Learn how to install Windows XP Service Pack 3

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/learn-how-to-install-windows-xp-service-pack-3-sp3>



You can also order a CD from Microsoft containing SP3. For more information,

go to the Microsoft website.

https://om2.one.microsoft.com/opa/Validation.aspx?StoreID=ce6e3afc-6b25-4f99-8913-3e3453ad966d&LocaleCode=en-us>



-=-



"b11_" wrote:



> Trying to install Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer but I can not use windows update

> because the computer never had a modem. What other way can I get a Wxp SP3

> for _one_ computer? I download at a public library then take an external

> drive home.

 

[Paul]

b11_ wrote:

> Trying to install Wxp SP3 for _one_ computer but I can not use windows update

> because the computer never had a modem. What other way can I get a Wxp SP3

> for _one_ computer? I download at a public library then take an external

> drive home.



I don't know if this is going to help you, but there is this.

I'm finding the concept a little hard to follow, but it looks like

you use APUP to load up a set of updates, and then use the

autopatcher executable on the target system, to selectively

apply the updates. I'm not even sure what you're supposed to

download from the author's web site. In any case, the actual

updates will be downloaded from Microsoft, for the ones that

apply to the OS itself.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopatcher



You would apply your downloaded copy of SP3 first, and then use Autopatcher

after that. The link Daave gave you, to the network install version

of SP3, gives you your SP3 base to work from. The autopatcher for

WinXP, applies on top of SP3.



Perhaps someone with Autopatcher experience could comment.

I don't know anything about it, other than that it exists.



Paul