SP 3 can be downloaded from various unofficial locations like download portals and the Bittorrent P2P network. These versions of Windows XP Services pack 3 may include some beta versions and might cause problems to windows xp when updating.
Windows XP Services Pack 3 has now been released officially. The downloading speed might be slow yet. The official Windows XP services pack is available for various languages like English, German, Russian, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. All this Windows XP SP 3 downloads are directly from Windows Updates. If you have some concerns about downloading form some unofficial websites, then there is nothing to fear by using this official download locations.
