RC1 (Release Candidate) is still beta as far as Microsoft Corporation is concerned.

It also has a 180 day time bomb in it so don’t use it in production machines – it’s only for testing purposes
IE it will have to be uninstalled or the final release will have to be installed over it

So if you are thinking that you are saving yourself time over useing sp2 and slipstreaming post SP2 patches then your mis-informed.

Until MS releases the final version of SP3 you will still need to slipstream SP2 and the post SP2 patches for end user machines.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929

“Assisted support (telephone, e-mail, and online chat) is not available from Microsoft Support for this release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).”

Report back to us if you need help.

Regards Zarts

if i could have sent it to the email you registered with you would have a copy now!

Cheers,
LittleFish

Nightly builds are for testing team members -
Since you are new here you are not on the testing team... and therefore would not be able to find it.

Beta releases are not officially supported - MS does not support it, neither do we... (RC [Release Candidates] are still beta)

When MS releases SP3 we are ready and will officially release support for it.

Thanks for your interest and hope to see you here often!

ps you have mail...

First, thanks a lot for the VERY HARD WORK I know lies behind all this.

Second, being a newbie here, I am also feeling quite stupid: I read several posts referring to downloading Base from the nightly builds, but I cannot find where to find these nightlies to download from.... I need to find them because I wanted to build an SP3-slipstreamed XP disk, and I get the KB888111 error that was already mentioned several times here. I know Overflow got a new version of Base that fixes it, but I cannot find it...
(I DID search the forum and other places, but no link or address...:-(

Any pointer, please?

Many thanks to all you hard-working guys

LittleFish