Fw:IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3

Forwarded from IE Beta newsgroup to IE General, IE6, WinXP General, and
Windows Update newsgroups via crosspost.

Followup To set for WinXP General.

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Internet Explorer 6 Users

XPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the latest
security updates for IE6. If you are still running Internet Explorer 6, then
XPSP3 will be offered to you via Windows Update as a high priority update.
You can safely install XPSP3 and will have an updated version of IE6 with
all your personal preferences, such as home pages and favorites, still
intact.

Internet Explorer 7 Users

If you are currently running IE7 on XPSP2, Windows Update will offer you
XPSP3 as a high priority update. If you choose to install XPSP3, Internet
Explorer 7 will remain on your system after the install is complete. Your
preferences will be retained. However, you will no longer be able to
uninstall IE7. If you go to Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs, the
*Remove* option will be grayed out.

This behavior is by design...

If you must uninstall IE7 after you have upgraded to XPSP3, then you have to
first uninstall XPSP3, and then uninstall IE7. After this series of
uninstalls, you will be reverted back to a XPSP2, and a stable version of
IE6, so feel free to upgrade to XPSP3 again.

If you install IE7 after you install XPSP3, then you will be able to
uninstall IE7 at any point and be reverted to the newer IE6 version that
ships in XPSP3. The restriction on uninstalling only applies to when you
install a Windows Service Pack release on top of a standalone IE release.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Users

Installing IE8 Beta1 on Windows XP SP3 is fully supported, so go ahead and
upgrade your computers to XPSP3 and then install IE8 Beta 1 to try out our
new features. You will be able to uninstall IE8 Beta 1 at any point to
revert back to either IE7 or IE6 depending on what you were using before.

However, if you already have IE8 Beta 1 installed on XPSP2, Windows XP SP3
will not be offered to you via Windows Update. This is because after you
update your system to XPSP3, you will no longer be able to uninstall IE8
Beta 1 and the *Remove* option will be grayed out under the Add/Remove
programs in Control Panel. The reason is the same as in IE7 case described
above. Since people are more likely to uninstall beta software, *we strongly
recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Windows XP SP3 to
eliminate any deployment issues and install IE8 Beta 1 after XPSP3 is on
your machine*.
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Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...and-xpsp3.aspx
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Kristen [MSFT] wrote:
> Hello,
> We just posted some good information to the IE Blog around IE and XPSP3
> that
> we want you to have prior to the final release of XPSP3 to the Web. Check
> it
> out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...and-xpsp3.aspx
>
> Thank you,
> Kristen [MSFT]