For those wary of installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP Home or Professional, you’ll receive it no matter what if your Windows updates is automated.  Don’t worry - Service Pack has tested just fine.  We’ve since deployed over 500 Service Pack 3 installs for computers and have no issues thus far.  The only nuisance has been with some computers that do not allow device drivers to be set up by the manufacturers installation software.  But, instead, needing to go to Device Manager and manually locating the driver.

If you really don’t want to install Service Pack 3, you can make sure that automated Windows updates is set to manual by going to the Control Panel.  Just remember that Service Pack 3 will provide the latest Windows updates to protect against viruses, hackers, and spyware.  You still need to install anti-virus software, but the latest Service Pack, in combination, will aid in closing some vulnerabilities.

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