I regularly update Windows XP and it tells me the new SP3 is around 67MB, to be downloaded and installed. There must be many people like me who are not on broadband and face a 6-hour download. Would it be possible for my daughter to download SP3 and put it on to a CD for me? Brian Chalkley
Microsoft does make downloads available for professional users who need to install things like SP3 on large numbers of machines and would prefer to download it only once. Your daughter could therefore download it for you from here. However, this download has to include everything that might be needed, so it's much larger than the one your PC needs: it's 316.4MB. But since there is no particular urgency to installing SP3, you could just ignore it. If you use automatic updates, then I assume Microsoft will ship it to you at some point using its Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). If so, you won't notice until XP tells you it has updates ready to install.
