Why won't service pack 3 download at microsoft update?

Question

could it be because i have service pack 2? anybody have any clue

why it won't let me download service pack 3. i have internet explorer 7 and windows xp.

Answer 1

service pack 2 works better - if you get service pack 3, as I did, it's like going back to Vista! my wireless device software started throwing up errors (one of the headaches I thought I left behind moving back from Vista to XP) and eventually I switched and started to use Ubuntu linux, and have XP with service pack 2 for playing games, and disabled the wireless. Windows is better without internet, just for games. Ubuntu is amazing.

Don't get Service pack 3. If you want to go forward from XP SP2, then wait and get Server 2008.