Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Contains applicable previously released Windows XP security updates, hotfixes and select out-of-band releases.

• This download is a Service Pack 3 (SP3) update for Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS). This SP3 update includes all previously released Windows XP security updates, hotfixes, and select out-of-band releases that are applicable to systems running the WEPOS operating systems.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
WindowsXP-KB958255-ENU.exe SHA1: 36f97f075f2098fe5a0c239cc0b6fded88d5f8aa	182.88 MB

• Disk Space Requirements
  
  This SP3 Update for WEPOS can take up to 750MB of disk space; this includes the installation files, and backup files to support uninstalling the update.
  
  When installing this Service Pack update from the web, a folder is created in your Windows directory called ServicePackFiles. This folder is 375MB in size for this SP3 update for WEPOS.
  
  The WEPOS installation, depending on your configuration, will have an uninstall folder of up to 300 MB in size.
  
  Insufficient Disk Space
  If there is insufficient free space on the system drive, you can use a USB flash drive to install the SP3 package. Please see the Knowledge Base article "You receive error messages if there is insufficient free disk space on the system drive to install the Windows XP Service Pack 3 package" and follow the instructions to install the SP3 Update for WEPOS on systems with low available disk space.
  
  Problems that are fixed in Windows XP SP3
  To view a list of problems that are fixed in Windows XP SP3, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article "List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 3".
  NOTE: This information applies to the SP3 Update for WEPOS with the exception that if the binaries or technologies do not exist within WEPOS, or if they are not installed as part of your WEPOS image, then they will not be installed or updated by the SP3 Update.
  
  More information for advanced users
  See the release notes for Windows XP SP3. This information includes the following:
  • Things to know before you download
  • Overview of Windows XP SP3
  • Significant changes in Windows XP SP3
  NOTE: This information applies to the SP3 Update for WEPOS with the exception that if the binaries or technologies do not exist within WEPOS, or if they are not installed as part of your WEPOS image, then they will not be installed or updated by the SP3 Update.
  
  How to obtain a white paper for Windows XP SP3
  To obtain a white paper that describes what is new in Windows XP SP3 and that discusses how customers can deploy the service pack, visit here.
  NOTE: This information applies to the SP3 Update for WEPOS with the exception that if the binaries or technologies do not exist within WEPOS, or if they are not installed as part of your WEPOS image, then they will not be installed or updated by the SP3 Update.

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