XPost: alt.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
      
   On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:25:52 GMT, dk@no.email.thankstospam.net (DK)   
   wrote:   
      
   >That's really odd because I have SP3 on the very same machine I writing   
   >this from and it has never seen IE8. Every update was done with IE6.   
      
   The first thing I did when I upgraded to SP3 was to download IE8.  I   
   hated IE6 (and IE5 too).  IE8 is not too bad, but I prefer Firefox and   
   lately, Seamonkey, because FF is getting too bloated.  On my laptop, I'm   
   sticking with Firefox 8.x.  It works fine and is still fairly simple.   
   But I do have IE8 on there too, and have been using it more often   
   lately.   
      
   You can just download IE8, and save it.  You dont need to keep   
   installing it from the web.  I have several computers and am on dialup.   
   I just save the IE8 install file, and there is a patch for it too, which   
   I also have saved.   
      
   Whenever I install XP, I apply SP3, IE8 and that patch all at the same   
   time.  Unfortunately, being on dialup, I cant add all those other   
   upgrades.  I'm hoping someone will burn them to CD or DVD and offer them   
   on Ebay for a fair price.  I just dont have a fast enough internet   
   connection.  Even the local WIFI spots are not real fast where i live.   
   And I sure cant haul a desktop computer to McDonalds or my local library   
   to use their WIFI.   
      
   You'd think Microsoft would offer their final upgrades on CD or an ISO   
   file, but they're too busy pushing their latest bloat....   
      
   Of course, if every one of us called Bill Gates, and really bugged him,   
   he might budge .   
      
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