Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 Out

[JoshT]

Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 was released yesterday.

It puts options in the Add/Remove Windows components box to "hide" Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Windows Media Player.

It does not install the .Net framework as far as I can tell, but Windows Update seems to not display it as a choice anymore after installing SP3.

[chrisjk]

christ, another thing to download with my piss poor connection :rolleyes:

How big is it?

[markman]

Originally posted by chrisjk
christ, another thing to download with my piss poor connection :rolleyes:

How big is it?
tiny

its in KB's

[markman]

nevermind. that was the installer

the rest is 21 megs

[chrisjk]

reckon I'll wait till it comes out on a magazine cover disc ;)

[JoshT]

128 MB for the full thing. I'm glad I have cable, because I need that to make service pack intergrated install CDs for my company.

Also, SP3 killed a co-worker's computer - it went into endless reboots. It's XP Pro now...

[markman]

I saw it as 21 megs.... :confused:

[Sastraxi]

Likely you were at SP2 with most of your critical updates. It checks that and downloads the mininum for a complete Windows 2000 SP3.

[JungleMan]

Can you disable the auto-update?

[Sastraxi]

Well I suppose you just wouldn't download it...

[JoshT]

The auto-update pops up in the systray asking you to enable it. You can disable it then.

[chrisjk]

All I got was another applet added to the Control Panel called Automatic Updates. If you go into that, you can completely disable it