NAP is a system introduced with Windows Server 2008 that blocks or restricts network access to client machines that aren’t recognised or don’t pass a minimum configuration level. The headline is the Network Access Protection (NAP) client. New features can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and you’ll still have a couple left over. We installed the service pack on several machine and experienced no nasty problems with corrupt installations or unbootable PCs. Remember though that XP remains faster than Vista in almost every area: our test PC scored 1.46 overall in Vista against 1.58 running XP SP3. Running our application benchmarks on a clean installation of XP SP2 and then updating to SP3, the performance results are near enough identical. There are no claims about improved speed with XP SP3, and our tests bear this out. The official Microsoft line is that, “This update affects the installation media only and is not a change to how activation works in Windows XP”.Ī primary focus of Vista SP1 was improving the laggardly performance of Vista. Microsoft is keen to point out that this isn’t a move to the same activation system used in Vista, whereby keys expire if they’re re-used. As with Vista, you can now install the OS without one and you’ll be prompted to provide it later. You should find you no longer need to enter a product key. To start the 30-minute process, click the 'Install Updates' button. There’s a further change you won’t see if you’re updating an existing installation it’ll only be apparent when you install XP from a CD with SP3 already integrated. In fact, it will offer SP3 before any other update or patch. If you’ve installed IE7 manually, that will be updated too. If you have IE6, that’s what you’ll still have after the update, albeit fully patched. OS - Windows XP SP3 RUS (update 02.2020 for Intel MB) Processor - Intel i5-6500 (LGA-1151, 4core3.2GHz) Memory - DDR4 8GB (using PAE, all 8GB are available though the system is 32bit) Graphics card - Radeon R7 360 2GB + driver from iCafe SSD drive - Kingston SSDNow 240 GB Network, sound, USB 3. In fact, SP3 is so determined not to give you anything new it won’t even install the latest version of Internet Explorer. With SP3, the primary focus is rolling up the hundreds of hotfixes and security patches that have been released in the years since SP2, giving a more secure baseline installation.
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