service pack 3 msconfig has no tools tab

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Tools Tab Missing. MSCONFIG.

XP Proff 2 installed. No tools tab.

XP Proff service pak 3 installed.

Now the fix for Tools Tab on msconfig only works on Service Pak 2 but not SP
3.

What would you do ?
 
KB906569.if for Service Pack 2.

After you upgrade to SP2 this update adds the Tools Tab; KB906569

But for SP3 without the Tools Tab there is no hope. No help. No New
Orleans Gumbo
 
New said:
KB906569.if for Service Pack 2.
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No, it is a *hotfix* released AFTER SP-2. Hence it is NOT part of SP-2.
SP-2 was a *minimum* service pack level for application of this hotfix.
After you upgrade to SP2 this update adds the Tools Tab; KB906569
But for SP3 without the Tools Tab there is no hope. No help.
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Service Pack 2: Released 09-AUG-2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811113/

Hotfix 906569: Released 05-OCT-2005

Service Pack 3: Released 21-APR-2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480

Since the hotfix was released 14 months *after* the release of SP-2, just
how could the hotfix have possibly been included in SP-2? It wasn't.
However, since the hotfix existed *before* the release of SP-3, it got
included in SP-3.

Hotfix 906569 was *not* included in SP-2.
Hotfix 906569 *was* included in SP-3.
See the above links to see the list of fixes included in SP-2 and SP-3.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_xp#Service_Pack_2 for information
on the 3 versions of SP-2. None of them had the hotfix although the 2b and
2c versions were released after availability of the hotfix. The 2b and 2c
versions of SP-2 were *not* to include any hotfixes available after the
release of SP-2 but to address different issues.
 
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