diff --git a/docs/msw/install.txt b/docs/msw/install.txt
index d764d4340f..157388eec8 100644
--- a/docs/msw/install.txt
+++ b/docs/msw/install.txt
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ informal and more detailed description of the process summarized below.
 
 Please note that the VC++ 6.0 project files will work for VC++ .NET also.
 
-Also note that VC++ 5.0 also works if you are lucky enough to have the now
-unavailable Service Pack 3 is installed (vssp3_1.exe). See note(5) below.
+VC++ 5.0 can also be used, providing Service Pack 3 is applied. Without it
+you will have trouble with internal compiler errors. It is available for
+download at: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/visualstudio/sp3/full.
 
 Using project files (VC++ 6 and later):
 
@@ -185,13 +186,6 @@ Note (4): to create your own IDE files, copy .dsp and .dsw
 files from an existing wxWidgets sample and adapt them, or
 visit http://wiki.wxwindows.org/wiki.pl?MSVC.
 
-Note (5): Unfortunately for VC++ 5.0 users, Microsoft made SP3 unavailable at
-the end of 2005. VC++ 5.0 also lacks a file wxWidgets uses "oleacc.lib", which
-came with the Platform SDK, also now unavailable for VC++ 5.0. Oleacc.lib is
-not needed unless wxUSE_ACCESSIBILITY is set to 1 in include\wx\msw\setup.h,
-so if you do not need this file you could remove it from the project's link
-settings.
-
 Microsoft Visual C++ compilation for 64-bit Windows
 ----------------------------------------------------------------