Showing posts with label sp2 to sp3 upgrade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sp2 to sp3 upgrade. Show all posts

January 04, 2012

Quickly upgrade your Windows XP SP2 to SP3

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I wanted to play a silly Game and it demanded SP3 so I picked up this method instead of upgrading my OS just for a game. This is a quick hack to fake an upgrade from SP2 to SP3 on a running Windows XP. This will not actually make your OS equivalent to Sp3 releases.



Easy steps:
  1. Open windows registry editor. ( Start > Run > regedit )
  2. Take a backup of your current settings by going to File > Export
  3. Now navigate to following registry key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows
  4. Now change the value of CSDVersion option, available in right, from 200 to 300
I know there are still many XP users left, hope this is useful to a few of them.
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