I’ve been super busy on a couple of projects and haven’t had a chance to install my new Adobe Master Collection CS4 Suite. I figured since I have Christmas week off, this would be a great time to get it all installed and start playing around with some of the new features.

As I started the install process, I got a warning message saying that I needed XP Service Pack 3 in order to continue. Now this is interesting because I have XP auto updates turned on, and have since I have owned this computer. I don’t know why the new service pack wasn’t pulled down by the auto updater, but I figured - it would be pretty easy to just grab it online.

Literally 30 minutes later I still could not find the actual link to download the file! Major failage on Microsoft’s part. All the links in the search engines and on Microsoft’s site were linking me to a page that appeared to be the SP3 download page but was actually a download page for 3 different versions of the “Overview” document. LAME!

In order to save anyone else the trouble of having to hunt down the file, here is the link detailing how to obtain SP3:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389

and here is the link directly to the Service Pack 3 install page .