service pack 3 upgrade help please - General Software Topics

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service pack 3 upgrade help please

Posted by Cheryl Smith on July 10, 2013 at 10:36 am

Hello
Ive had to wipe mac and start again….loading parallels for coreldraw. the VM is XP and only has service pack 2. I have tried to upgrade to 3 but can’t seem to locate it anywhere…I am sure I need this to install corel draw which wont at the moment.
anybody have a clue where I can find and install service pack 3…Id hate to lose XP.
many thanks
Cheryl

Jamie Wood replied 10 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 12 Replies
12 Replies

Jon Marshall

Member
July 10, 2013 at 10:54 am

Had to wipe the Mac? I though they were infallible?
Cheryl Smith

Member
July 10, 2013 at 10:56 am

I run windows on mac…that is where the problem started…dont suppose you know about my question?
Chris Wool

Member
July 10, 2013 at 11:09 am

think this is the one

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download … x?id=10767
Jon Marshall

Member
July 10, 2013 at 11:09 am

Microsoft still have SP3 for download I believe
Cheryl Smith

Member
July 10, 2013 at 11:15 am

no they don’t. I have a 32bit XP (dark ages)…it looks as tho I cannot upgrade either from that to windows 8… You cant seem to buy a full version just upgrades…geezz…maybe if I bought a xp with service pack three disk i might be able to upgrade from that..as from April 2014 microsoft are not even going to do any automatic updates for XP anymore….goodness knows why (apart form forcing people like myself) to spend more money…XP way the best system imo. sorry to see it go.

Id rather do away with pc altogether…I only run it because I know Corel inside out.
Cheryl Smith

Member
July 10, 2013 at 11:33 am

thank you Chris, that unfortunately is just an overview and no longer a sp download… 🙁
Chris Wool

Member
July 10, 2013 at 11:39 am

follow on from that link
type xp3 download in the top search
follow on as to save the file to disk 500mb
Cheryl Smith

Member
July 10, 2013 at 1:24 pm

Thank you Chris…
I think it is now time to bow to the inevitable and buy windows 7…
thanks for your suggestions and bye bye XP…sad farewell..
Jamie Wood

Member
July 10, 2013 at 2:01 pm

It’s here…

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download … x?id=25129
Jon Marshall

Member
July 10, 2013 at 2:03 pm

Couldn’t you just reinstall the windows VM? How did it affect the Mac OS?
Cheryl Smith

Member
July 10, 2013 at 3:40 pm

quote Jamie Wood:

It’s here…

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download … x?id=25129

Ive ordered 7 now. I am sure I tried that link too.

Jon, had to get rid of the VM fault on mac, thinking I could just make another as I have a disc for XP…therein is the problem.
Jamie Wood

Member
July 10, 2013 at 3:53 pm

If you have problems with 7, the link leads to a Service Pack 3 ISO file, which you burn
to a CD so that you can update your re-installed XP in your new VM machine.