Core 2 Quad & Win XP no SP

[Ixeon]

Does Win XP without Service Packs see all 4 cores?

[MrCobra]

Yes, as long as the correct multiprocessor support was detected and loaded properly when you first installed it.

[Idontwantspam]

it should work just fine. However, I've got to ask - why on earth are you running XP with no service packs?!

Seems like a kind of crazy thing to do...

[TravisO]

Seems like a kind of crazy thing to do...

It's not crazy, it's just moronic. I'm sure he'll have some absurd excuse why... until his PC gets RPC exploited to hell and back.

[Tripredacus]

it should work just fine. However, I've got to ask - why on earth are you running XP with no service packs?!

Seems like a kind of crazy thing to do...

My computer at home doesn't have any service packs installed... but I do have USB 2.0 functionality.

[Idontwantspam]

But... why wouldn't you apply the service packs, other than just to be stubborn? It seems like a bad idea - MS stopped offering security updates to SP1 users about a year ago, I do't even know how long it's been since SP0 was supported...

[Tripredacus]

But... why wouldn't you apply the service packs, other than just to be stubborn? It seems like a bad idea - MS stopped offering security updates to SP1 users about a year ago, I do't even know how long it's been since SP0 was supported...

My computer was set up by my old company. Windows update does not work because it tries to look for a SUS which doesn't exist. However I have no problems with it and apply fixes only if i need to.

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

But... why wouldn't you apply the service packs, other than just to be stubborn? It seems like a bad idea - MS stopped offering security updates to SP1 users about a year ago, I do't even know how long it's been since SP0 was supported...

My computer was set up by my old company. Windows update does not work because it tries to look for a SUS which doesn't exist. However I have no problems with it and apply fixes only if i need to.

sorry but thats still not a valid excuse for running naked XP

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableWindowsUpdateAccess"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"ElevateNonAdmins"=-
"TargetGroup"=-
"TargetGroupEnabled"=-
"WUServer"=-
"WUStatusServer"=-
"DisableWindowsUpdateAccess"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"AUOptions"=-
"AUPowerManagement"=-
"AutoInstallMinorUpdates"=-
"DetectionFrequency"=-
"DetectionFrequencyEnabled"=-
"IncludeRecommendedUpdates"=-
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=-
"NoAutoUpdate"=-
"RebootRelaunchTimeout"=-
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=-
"RebootWarningTimeout"=-
"RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=-
"RescheduleWaitTime"=-
"RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled"=-
"ScheduledInstallDay"=-
"ScheduledInstallTime"=-
"UseWUServer"=dword:000000000

then just in case:

@echo off

net stop wuauserv

net start wuauserv

wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

worst case scenario download SP3 redist and run it locally.