Experience the N New Changes in Windows XP SP3

by mrsakura on 2008-05-22 14:33:37

As the currently most mainstream operating system, Windows XP has the widest user base. In 2004, Microsoft released the SP2 patch package. After nearly four years of anticipation, Microsoft has finally released the Windows XP SP3 patch package, and a Chinese version is already available. Regarding the SP3 patch package, Microsoft stated that the XP SP3 includes all security, performance, and stability upgrades/patches since the launch of Windows XP, which many users have been looking forward to for a long time. Moreover, the SP3 patch package also contains some new features, such as black hole routing detection, Network Access Protection (NAP), more detailed security options interface, enhanced administrative security and service policy entries, kernel-mode encryption module, etc. In addition, there has been a significant improvement in speed, including faster boot-up, file transfer, network access, and Office component operation speeds. Let's take a quick look below.