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XP Service Pack 3: not yet ready for prime time

By Susan Bradley
The growing list of XP SP3-related glitches being encountered by users should give pause to anyone thinking of downloading and installing the update.
If you've kept XP patched from week to week, there's presently no clear advantage to implementing the OS's latest service pack, though you'll want to do so eventually.
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