Windows XP SP3

Silent installer for Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Checks uninstall information and registry key "CSDVersion" so that it will not try to install on a machine with SP3 factory preinstalled, which typically does not show "Windows XP Service Pack 3" in the Add/Remove program application.

Technet page for Service Pack 3: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<packages>
 <package id="WinXP-SP3" name="Windows XP Service Pack 3" revision="1" reboot="true" priority="0">
  <check type="logical" condition="or">
    <check type="registry"  condition="equals" path="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName" value="Microsoft Windows 2000" />
    <check type="registry"  condition="equals" path="HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CSDVersion"  value="Service Pack 3" />
    <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Windows XP Service Pack 3" />
  </check>
  <install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\ServicePacks\install-localized-SP3.cmd'>
   <exit code="0" />
   <exit code="3010" />
  </install>
  <remove cmd='%WINDIR%\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /quiet /norestart'>
   <exit code="0" />
   <exit code="3010" />
  </remove>
 </package>
</packages>

Instead of calling the Service Pack installer straight from within the WPKG package, we call a batch-file which determines the system-locale and executes the localized service pack installer (as diferent locales won't install). This is the possible source code of that batch-files install-localized-SP3.cmd (You can of course add/delete languages to your needs; see http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx for a complete list)

@echo off

:detect
for /f "Skip=1 Tokens=3*" %%i in ('reg QUERY "hklm\system\controlset001\control\nls\language" /v Installlanguage') do set language=%%i

:: Dutch - Belgium
if "%language%" == "0813" (
   set LANG=NLD
   goto select
)
:: Dutch - Netherlands
if "%language%" == "0413" (
   set LANG=NLD
   goto select
)
:: English - United States
if "%language%" == "0409" (
   set LANG=ENU
   goto select
)
:select
echo Found Language: %LANG%
echo installing %SOFTWARE%\ServicePacks\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-%LANG%.exe /quiet /norestart
%SOFTWARE%\ServicePacks\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-%LANG%.exe /quiet /norestart
exit /B %ERRORLEVEL%

Still to be investigated which is the best command line switches combination. Available command line switches are:

/help

/quiet
/passive

/norestart
/forcerestart
/warnrestart[:<seconds>]
/promptrestart

/overwriteoem
/nobackup
/forceappsclose
/integrate:<full path>
/d:<path>
/log:<full path>

UninstallString string value in the registry key "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows XP Service Pack" reports "c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.exe", didn't check if it works as expected.

Spuninst.exe available command line switches are:

/help

/quiet
/passive

/norestart
/forcerestart
/warnrestart[:<seconds>]
/promptrestart

/forceappsclose
/log:<full path>

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