To help you determine whether Service Pack 3 is worth a download, I’ve developed this partial listing of fixes of interest to IT professionals. Microsoft recently released Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000. Hershel Dunne explains how SP3 will make your job easier. In addition to addressing numerous security problems, Win2K SP3 includes fixes for the base operating system, Terminal Services, and Windows Directory Services. Several bugs were added to prevent it running under the then-popular OS/2 for Windows.Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 includes 130 security fixes win 3.11 is after the final IBM/Microsoft split, contains a shift from OS/2 to WinNT as the preferred user. It's more the case that like Win 3.0, vista 6.0 was set to see just how much could be annoyed, and win 3.1 and vista 6.1 were the serious release of this DOS. The two are as different from each other as winnt 5.0 and 5.1 were.

People get no discount for upgrading vista 6.0 to vista 6.1, in the way that one did with the Windows for Workgroups step-up or the WinME step-up. It's rather unfair to call 6.1 as a 'service pack' to 6.0. Still, people found how to add slipstream into OS/2, and there are apps out that will slipstream Windows 7 etc. On the other hand, it moved down the same track that IBM did with OS/2, in having a specified layout for the drive. Most of the tricks that work with nt5 were removed in nt6. One could undo some of the sp3 stuff (like putting sp2 progman).

Windows XP got a long-awaited sp3 near the end of its life, which means that there is little to integrate.

But Gurglemeyer disappeared towards the end of it, and the project is rather moribound. It seems to be the only attempt at replicating an actual service pack outside windows.

There was a non-microsoft version of sp5 for Windows 2000, which integrates all of the stuff, and fixes up the various drivers.dat file. None of these service packs integrate, so you have to manually integrate the stuff yourself. Some people have made things like a fully updated Windows NT 3.51 / 4.00.

Windows 7 sp 3