Windows XP Media Center SP3

Does Microsoft distribute any version (MSDN, Retail, or OEM) of Windows XP
Media Center that includes SP3 slipstreamed in?

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Will

Will wrote:
> Does Microsoft distribute any version (MSDN, Retail, or OEM) of Windows XP
> Media Center that includes SP3 slipstreamed in?
>
You might get a copy from MSDN if you have a MSDN license, but don't
hold out to find XP for download other than a pirate site.

Besides, its way to simple to slipstream it into your current CD with Nlite.

I wasn't asking for a download. I was asking if there is a *legal*
distribution that slipstreams SP3.

nlite is useful to know about in any case, but hardly cheaper than buying a
legal slipstream CD. Our admin would spend three hours figuring it all
out, and that's already more than $200 of spent cost for the company.

--
Will

"Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote in message
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> Will wrote:
> > Does Microsoft distribute any version (MSDN, Retail, or OEM) of Windows
XP
> > Media Center that includes SP3 slipstreamed in?
> >
> You might get a copy from MSDN if you have a MSDN license, but don't
> hold out to find XP for download other than a pirate site.
>
> Besides, its way to simple to slipstream it into your current CD with
Nlite.

Will wrote:
> I wasn't asking for a download. I was asking if there is a *legal*
> distribution that slipstreams SP3.
>
> nlite is useful to know about in any case, but hardly cheaper than buying a
> legal slipstream CD. Our admin would spend three hours figuring it all
> out, and that's already more than $200 of spent cost for the company.
>
Since XP stops selling June 30, 2008, I doubt you're going to find it
with SP3. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx
Granted the system builder versions run till Jan 2009.

And I don't mean to argue, but Nlite takes about 10 minutes to learn.
Granted it takes time to do the work, but its way too simple. You
load it, answer the questions and put the original CD in when it asks
for source, pick a destination, it will even burn the new CD.
But I've used it and played with it so naturally its easy.

Have fun!
Al.

No.
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Will wrote:
> Does Microsoft distribute any version (MSDN, Retail, or OEM) of Windows XP
> Media Center that includes SP3 slipstreamed in?

I had a junior admin here attempt to use Nlite. Two hours later we still
don't have a working slipstream.

When you are starting with Windows XP Media Center, which comes on two CDs,
Nlite combines all of this together onto a single file system, then applies
patches for SP3 on top of that. You end up with a 900 MB+ amount of data
that can no longer burn to anything other than DVD.

Do you know of any option in NLite to burn to two CDs instead of one?

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Will

"Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote in message
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> Will wrote:
> > I wasn't asking for a download. I was asking if there is a *legal*
> > distribution that slipstreams SP3.
> >
> > nlite is useful to know about in any case, but hardly cheaper than
buying a
> > legal slipstream CD. Our admin would spend three hours figuring it
all
> > out, and that's already more than $200 of spent cost for the company.
> >
> Since XP stops selling June 30, 2008, I doubt you're going to find it
> with SP3. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx
> Granted the system builder versions run till Jan 2009.
>
> And I don't mean to argue, but Nlite takes about 10 minutes to learn.
> Granted it takes time to do the work, but its way too simple. You
> load it, answer the questions and put the original CD in when it asks
> for source, pick a destination, it will even burn the new CD.
> But I've used it and played with it so naturally its easy.
>
> Have fun!
> Al.