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Many of the microsoft customers ran into trouble after installing their latest updates. Microsoft even delayed their XP service pack 3 release after having found compatibility issues with their own products itself. Now they have come up with a tool to block service pack installations.

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008)
• Windows XP Service Pack 3 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
• Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general availability)

The tool is applicable to the above service packs.

Windows XP service pack 3 contains the updates of all the previous service packs, vis service pack 1 and service pack 2. So if you install service pack 3, then there is no need to install the other 2 packs. This pack includes security updates and hotfixes, and select out-of-band releases. The service pack includes functionality previously released as updates, such as the Microsoft®Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 (MSXML6). The pack can downloaded from here