Questions tagged [windows-xp-sp3]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, and to the public via both the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update on May 6, 2008.

A total of 1,174 fixes have been included in SP3. Service Pack 3 can be installed on systems with Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, or 8. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 are not included as part of SP3. Service Pack 3 is not available for the 64 bit version of Windows XP, which is based on Windows Server 2003 kernel.

New features in Service Pack 3

  • NX APIs for application developers to enable Data Execution Prevention for their code, independent of system-wide compatibility enforcement settings
  • Turns black hole router detection on by default
  • Support for SHA-2 signatures in X.509 certificates
  • Network Access Protection client
  • Group Policy support for IEEE 802.1X authentication for wired network adapters.
  • Credential Security Support Provider
  • Descriptive Security options in Group Policy/Local Security Policy user interface
  • An updated version of the Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider Module (RSAENH) that is FIPS 140-2 certified (SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 algorithms)
  • Installing without requiring a product key during setup for retail and OEM versions
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Dependency Walker reports IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL missing?

On a Windows XP Professional SP3 with Internet Explorer 8 box, when I run Dependency Walker on an executable of mine it reports that: IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL can't be found. Do I need these DLL's? Where can I get them? I believe they are supposed…
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mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

This is a tricky one, I have the following output: mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect When attempting to export my database with mysqldump on Windows XP. The username…
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Properly print utf8 characters in windows console

This is the way I try to do it: #include #include using namespace std; int main() { SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8); //german chars won't appear char const* text = "aäbcdefghijklmnoöpqrsßtuüvwxyz"; int len =…
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VS 2010 error - cannot open file "iostream"

I've just migrated from VS2005 to VS2010 and it fails to compile a simple program. #include using std::cout; using std::endl; int main() { cout << "Hello Visual Studio 2010 :)" << endl; } Errors - 1 error TRK0005: Failed to locate:…
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How to Run PHP on IIS7.5 Express?

I have Win XP SP3 and have installed IIS7.5 Express and want to run PHP on it. I am able to run simple HTML code on the server, I am able to start and stop the server by running iisservices.exe, but I am not able to run php scripts on it. If I have…
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WPF Choppy Animation

WPF Windows-XP SP3 I'm having a problem with a simple WPF animation. I use the following Xaml code (in XamlPad and also in a WPF project):
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Can't load 'C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.dll' for module XML::LibXML

I have downloaded strawberry PERL and writing one application with CGI Perl Apache on Winxp sp3). One of the libraries (written by someone else) which I using uses XML::LibXML. When i load the page it gives Internal Server Error. From Apache error…
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Task Manager Process Location

Is there a command line syntax in which returns the Image Path / Location of the *.exe on the task manager? I'm using Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3, I'm aware of the tslist(tasklist) command, but I only get all running *.exe files.
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Controlling Windows Firewall in C# for Windows 7 and Xp Sp3

I here have a code working perfect in Windows 7 i took help from this post.... The problem comes when that same code in compiled on Win Xp Sp3 PC. Its does not comile... says interface missing (error) .... I cant seem to figure out. I have added…
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Installing IIS on Windows XP SP3 with no media (CD/DVD)

I got my system rebuilt and guy forgot to install IIS. Its Windows XP SP3. I dont have CD / DVD of Windows XP SP3 install IIS. Is this can downloaded? if yes where?
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Error 0x800706F7 "The stub received bad data" on Windows XP SP3

In my VB6 application I make several calls to a COM server my team created from a Ada project (using GNATCOM). There are basically 2 methods available on the COM server. Their prototypes in VB are: Sub PutParam(Param As Parameter_Type,…
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How accurate is Sleep() or sleep()

I'm trying simulate a key down and key up action. For example: 2638 millseconds. SendMessage(hWnd, WM_KEYDOWN, keyCode, 0); Sleep(2638); SendMessage(hWnd, WM_KEYUP, keyCode, 0); How would you know if it really worked?
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Cant Run Application Created With QT5 And VS2013 In Windows XP

I have application created with QT5 and Visual Studio 2013. I also use QT WebEngine in my application. My application works fine in windows 7 (32 bit) . For some reason i need to run it in windows xp sp3 (32 bit). When i run it, I get the following…
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VS2013 "v120_xp" as platform toolset by default

In order to deploy C++ application built with VS2013 compiler under Windows XP, the "v120_xp" platform toolset has to be set: this make it possible the deployment from XP to 8.1. So next come the question: why this platform toolset is not the only…
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How to install selenium package using pip on Windows XP?

I am running Windows XP SP3 where I installed Python-3.4.1. I want to install [selenium] webdriver2 package using pip. I set the path variable of python in the right way on Window XP, so using CMD I run successfully python command. However, when I…
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