Said by: I'm going to suggest they will not do this -- too many opportunities for mis-use. Unofficial Oblivion Patch Manual Install Of Windows here. As far as I know, Microsoft has never given Windows away for free outside of promotional stuff from time to time (and there's always some participation from the user required).

They've given away some programs, like internet explorer and an accounting program, for example, but not their cash cows, like Windows or Office. Hell, even DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.1 cannot legally be used even today without some form of purchase at some point in time.

You'd think after enough time went by they might make some version of Windows open source, but I seriously doubt that that will happen any time soon. XP would of course be the best candidate, but don't hold your breath. Microsoft hates competition, even when the competition is another one of their own programs.

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I'm the first 'Me too', tried the (appreciated) links but they both say for Networks and IT Pro's. Aren't there two more for rank and file amateurs who don't Network? I'm XP Home, SP3, just used CNET'S uninstaller (cleanup) download because Automatic Updates kept saying.NET framework 3.5 and I think part of version 2, can't be installed. Did a lot of searching before finding this site, and, looking for the Reinstall links you probably know of, while waiting I'll Probably check again at CNET, have a couple of Tracked discussions on this subject there. Thanks in advance if you have the links, for novices. A printer program is asking for.NET 2 or higher, keeps saying my HP 28 color cartridge is incorrectly installed, but I've been installing for almost two decades, and after all it's printing, just has that annoying error message, needs the.NET.

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Windows XP Service Pack Information If you have Service Pack 1a already installed on your computer, you may go ahead and install Service pack 3 Else, you will have to download and install Service Pack 2. And later you will have to install Service pack 3. Service pack 2 has Service pack 1 and Service pack 1a integrated in it. Here are the links where you can download and install Windows XP SP. Service Pack 2: Service Pack 3: Hope this helps.

Cameron's answer didn't work directly, but got me to the right area (microsoft and download). DId a bit of trial and error ( a little counter-intuitive--have to say you want to download to computer you're using and then it allows you to save elsewhere) and got the downloads successfully to my flash drive, installed and updated my windows and my printer works great! For anyone who must use XP, despite the fact that it hasn't been supported by Microsoft since April 2014 and is therefore increasingly vulnerable to malware. You don't need Service Pack 1 or 1a. If your version of XP has no service packs, you can install SP 2 and then SP 3. If your version of XP has SP 1, SP 1a, or SP 2, you can install SP 3.

Once you have SP 3, all of the post-SP 3 updates issued up to April 8, 2014, should be available through Windows Update, although this could change. Alternatively, see Several weeks ago, Microsoft pulled the old links for XP SP 2 and XP SP 3. However, at least as of today, these are available through the Microsoft Update Catalog: If you use 'XP Service Pack' (without quotes) as your search term, you will find: • Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929) 316.4 MB • Windows XP Service Pack 2 266.0 MB Unless you have Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, these are the files you need. If you do have this rather rare version of XP, there is a SP 2 available. There never was an SP 3 for this version of Windows. If your PC is an HP Pavilion, Presario or Media Center and has an AMD processor, you need to install this patch before installing SP3 -->hp link -->MS link -->----- LemP Community Moderator MS MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) 2006-2009 Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) 2011-2012.