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Harold A Climer - 15 May 2008 17:55 GMT

I want to download XP SP3 and install it on my XP machine at home.
However I only have dial- up at home and the SP file is humongous.
I will have to re-format my hard drive and re-install Media Center
Edition because of some glitches, so I want the whole 550+ MB_ file.
I have a Vista machine at work, so I thought I would download it there
because I have T1 connection.
However when I go to the download page for XP SP3 the download button
does not appear on the page. It is not grayed out it is just not
there.
When I go to the same page on my computer at home the download button
is just where it is supposed to be.
What gives? Is there a direct link where I can download the file on
any machine?
Harold A. Climer
Dept. Of Physics, Geology, and Astronomy
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
309 Grote Hall
423-425-4546
Harold-Climer@utc.edu

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Big Al - 15 May 2008 18:09 GMT

> I want to download XP SP3 and install it on my XP machine at home.
> However I only have dial- up at home and the SP file is humongous.
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> 423-425-4546
> Harold-Climer@utc.edu

You went here?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2FCDE6CE-B5FB-4488-8C50
-FE22559D164E&displaylang=en

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Shenan Stanley - 15 May 2008 18:14 GMT

> I want to download XP SP3 and install it on my XP machine at home.
> However I only have dial- up at home and the SP file is humongous.
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> What gives? Is there a direct link where I can download the file on
> any machine?

You should be able to download SP3 from any machine with any OS.

If you wanted to download the executable file and utilize it to install on
one or more computers (save it on portable media, etc):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08
-1e1555d4f3d4&DisplayLang=en

If you wanted to download the CD image of the CD that you will (at some
point) be able to order from Microsoft for (likely) a shipping charge and
utilize that CD now to install SP3 on one or more computers:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50
-fe22559d164e&DisplayLang=en

Need something to write that ISO image file to an actual CD - given you have
a CD burner and blank CD and have downloaded that? Free Program you could
utilize to burn the ISO file to an actual CD:
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/Vista.htm
(Gave you the Vista link because - you obviously have Vista.)

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