In Windows XP, user attempt to download and install high priority, important or critical Microsoft security updates from Windows Update or Microsoft Update, however, Windows Update cannot and fails to download and install all selected updates. Windows Update can correctly scan and search the computer to check for available updates though, causing display of tens of updates on screen that remain unable to be installed.

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Windows XP has less stringent Windows Product Activation algorithm compared with Windows Vista. For example, PC computers from branded OEM (original equipment manufacturer) is activated out-of-factory, and most hackers and pirates go for volume licensing (commonly known as VL or VOL) version of Windows XP Professional which when installed with a volume product key (VLK), does not require user to activate again online or by phone.

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When running an executable of setup installer or setup update package of various programs, installation process may fail with Access Denied error dialog message, or system responses or records in Event Log Viewer with error code 5 or 0×5 or 0×80070005, which all indicates Access Denied problem. Then the setup terminates itself, and installation process is rollback.

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In Windows XP SP3 system, no matter it’s been upgraded from Windows XP with no service pack, SP1 or SP2 with XP SP3 standalone update package or Windows/Microsoft/Automatic Update, or user clean install from scratch with an integrated Windows XP with SP3 CD ISO image, the special desktop icon of Internet Explorer (IE) browser on desktop has gone missing. The IE desktop icon is different from normal IE shortcut, where IE desktop icon is special shell shortcut that provides quick access to Internet Options, and has shorter right click contextual menu.

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Have you ever wished you own one of those gadgets seen in James Bond movies or the Batman Returns, Transformers and Mission Impossible blockbusters? A penknife that flips open into a poison dart, a lighter that doubles as a pistol, a car that can transform into a flying machine? Well, if you grab hold of this latest gizmo in the market, you could persuade yourself that you are a spy or a superhero in the making. Camera sunglasses seem like a cool apparatus to keep your identity secret and take photos under cover. Imagine the excitement of stalkers, private investigators and the paparazzi in having such an invention in their hands.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to the public through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center, after a slight delay due to incompatibility issue. With the official release of standalone setup install package for Windows XP SP3 on Microsoft Download Center, users no longer need to hack download the SP3 code bits from Windows Update server anymore.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 public availability has been officially released today, Tuesday May 6, 2008 after one week delay from the original schedule. The third and last service pack for Windows XP has released to MSDN/TechNet in April, and is now deployed through Windows Update (where code bits has been uploaded for a while and can directly download), Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates, WSUS, Windows Catalog and Microsoft Download Center to those who wants to download and upgrade Windows XP system.

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Microsoft has released Windows XP with Service Pack 3 integrated or slipstreamed as full bootable setup installation CD in ISO image format to MSDN or TechNet Plus subscribers. As usual, the ISO images for many versions of Windows XP with SP3 CD or DVD ISO images have been leaked to Internet for free download. Here’s a collection of unmodified, untouched and original copy of official integrated Windows XP with SP3 slipstreamed ISO images as if when the CD images are downloaded from MSDN or TechNet Plus servers.

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Microsoft is making good their promise to remove mandatory product key input during the installation or upgrading process of Windows XP operating system, in a new Windows Product Activation (WPA) process that similar to what implements in Windows Vista. However, only integrated Windows XP with Service Pack retail install or OEM CD can bypass the step to enter product key. Windows XP SP3 installation or setup CD/DVD for corporate customers with volume licensing agreement still require a valid and legitimate volume license product key (VLK) to be entered, as tested and reported by Tip and Trick previously.

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Windows Vista Ultimate Extras gives away two free sound schemes for Windows Vista Ultimate customers who can download and install the sound packages from Windows Update. The sound scheme package of either Ultimate Extras Pearl or Ultimate Extras Glass, when enable, customize and change the sound and notification tune that Windows plays when user performs a task and an event happens in Windows and supported application programs.

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