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April 03, 2008 SP3 Adds NAP to XP Other updates are minor A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Damir Dizdarevic Features InstantDoc #98382 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) brings Network Access Protection support to XP machines. Other improvements are the inclusion of Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) and new versions of the Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), and Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). However, XP SP3's main virtue is combining the many patches since SP2 in one package.

If you do a clean installation of Windows XP SP2 today, when the installation is finished, you're presented with about 100 updates to download from the Windows Update site to bring your system up to date and make it as secure as possible. In my view, the time for a new service pack for XP has definitely come, although Microsoft seemed to waffle for a time about whether XP SP3 was necessary. . . .

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